Know your history – Civil War battlefield tours
Americans fighting one another, brutal battles lasting for days, young soldiers dying. Just a segment of America’s deadliest history, the Civil War. A dark stamp…
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Primitive tools that we still use today
Primitive is a word that describes something of age or out of date. When someone says, “it’s very primitive,” they usually mean that it is…
The real story of the bike chained to a tree on Vashon Island, when a boy went to war in 1914
We have all seen this picture on the internet a thousand times. A tale of a lad that went off to war and left his…
They shot each other out of the sky then needed each other to survive the Norwegian wilderness
Into the White was a 2012 Norwegian film loosely based on real events from World War II’s Norwegian Campaign, when the Allies tried to keep the…
Vashon Island: The real story behind…A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914
We have all seen this picture on the internet a thousand times. A tale of a lad that went off to war and left his…
Top-Secret Site: Melting Ice Sheet Could Expose Frozen Cold War-Era Hazardous Waste
Climate change is threatening to expose hazardous waste at an abandoned camp thought to be buried forever in the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research out…
Escaped from a Japanese PoW: Robert McLaren had to remove his own appendix in the jungle
By 1942, Robert “Jock” McLaren had already escaped from a prison camp in Singapore, fought for weeks with local guerrillas, been betrayed to the Japanese…