When German Prisoners Staged Their Own ‘Great Escape’
Bridgend, in Wales, was home to a POW camp for housing German POWs (prisoners of war) from late 1944--1948. The ...
Read moreBridgend, in Wales, was home to a POW camp for housing German POWs (prisoners of war) from late 1944--1948. The ...
Read moreIn 1978 an Australian woman named Lynette Phillips set herself on fire in Geneva. She was protesting the Indian government ...
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Read moreOur image of Mary Magdalene has long been that of the fallen woman, contrite, repentant of her ways, looking to ...
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Read moreThomas Jefferson struggled to reconcile the teachings of the Bible with the teachings of modern-day science. He thought that the ...
Read moreRunning along a ridge in Peru are 13 towers whose purpose has long baffled researchers. Now, it's been discovered that ...
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Read moreSailors have long reported seeing the Flying Dutchman and other ghost ships haunting the world's seas. Far from being a ...
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Read moreCannibalism is one of those cringe-worthy practices that we all hope to avoid, even if we can sometimes understand why ...
Read moreThere can't be many people that have never heard of the famous Manfred Von Richthofen (The Red Baron), the German ...
Read moreDuring the Cold War, Russia created a fail-safe device for their nuclear weapons arsenal to ensure a second strike capability ...
Read moreCults are weird things, and Christian cults are absolutely no exception. In the fourth and fifth centuries, a Christian cult ...
Read moreAccording to the first fully constructed and explained theory that involved the Earth revolving around something else in a regular ...
Read moreIn the early 1920s, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History was the recipient of a generous donation of artifacts, ...
Read moreScientists have been wondering since at least the 19th century: What's the deal with deja vu? Research now suggests that ...
Read moreFor nearly 20 years, the United States Department of Defense used high-level security devices known as Permissive Action Link (PAL) ...
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