The picturesque village of Linby in Nottinghamshire, holds a curious piece of folklore tied to World War II. According to local legend, the German Luftwaffe once mistakenly bombed a nearby field, ...

Scientists revisit a 1941 study of a California mussel bed, finding surprising biodiversity despite climate change.

A mussel bed in Northern California is as healthy and biodiverse as it was about 80 years ago, when two young students ...

Which WWII fighter aircraft had the most kills? Find out in this exciting countdown of the top 5 planes that ruled the skies ...

The underground Churchill War Rooms house the rooms where then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill directed maneuvers against ...

Chief Carpenter’s Mate Ted McKindley Furr, who was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Pearl Harbor attack, will be ...

Central Texas has a new centenarian, and it’s World War II veteran Morris Barker, who got quite the surprise from family and ...

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Currently, Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk. That the Russians haven’t been more ...

A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted for over eight decades after he was killed in the Pacific, the Defense ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” on Feb. 24, 2022, University of Chicago Prof. Konstantin Sonin called the full-scale invasion of Ukraine “the end of ...

The previous year didn’t quite live up to the blockbuster magic of 2023. Hindi films, in 2024, struggled to replicate what monster hits like Jawan, Gadar 2, and Animal did in 2023. Arguably, the only ...