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Navajo Code Talker descendants slam New Mexico museum plan
1+ hour, 5+ min ago (1592+ words) For decades, Navajo Code Talkers and their descendants have dreamed of an expansive museum on the Navajo Nation that would educate the public about the complex code they developed using their language, credited with helping secure Allied victory in World…...
What’s in a name? Why naming storms, military operations and medical maladies matters
53+ min ago (962+ words) By TAYLOR HEYMAN Associated Press U.S. hurricane season is gearing up. And from Amanda and Boris onward, tropical cyclones' names in the Pacific region are unfolding quickly. But why the monikers each year? Or at all? “Look around in your home....
For a splintered nation, a delicate moment of continuity
4+ hour, 49+ min ago (91+ words) When it gazes into the mirror, the United States does not generally see a land of process and procedure. It sees what it has wanted to see since the beginning — a place of action and results and volume. The bold,…...
"Battle of Civilization Versus Barbarism"
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (25+ words) Peace becomes impossible when a public culture rewards the sacrifice of children more than the protection of their future. Opinion. "Battle of Civilization Versus Barbarism"...
Rare WW1 howitzer trophy gun saved from scrapyard
11+ hour, 19+ min ago (251+ words) The war relic, pushed into a river by a disgruntled veteran a century ago, is due to be restored....
Embracing Local History: Part 220??? LT. REV. CLAUDE F. ACREE WRITES HOME FROM WWI??? Chapter 2
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (538+ words) "It's been rather tough on me as I have had to work pretty hard and have been exposed not only to the weather, but the heaviest artillery fire I have had. But, aside from the discomfort and the scare, I…...
Vultee Vengeance: the WWII dive bomber built for Britain
3+ hour, 4+ min ago (1699+ words) The American dive bomber that Britain and France ordered — and America barely wanted. Built to plunge straight down, it found its war not over Europe but in the jungles and hills of Burma. Museum piece · not a MiGFlug ride Few…...
Belgium World War II Objects
5+ hour, 21+ min ago (85+ words) Bluefield Daily Telegraph Two World War II items found on the landscape are displayed at the Truschbaum Museum in Elsenborn, Belgium, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. - State send Mercer lower than expected regional jail bill - EMS units in Bluefield, Princeton awarded opioid settlement…...
Science Fiction - When war becomes a game - ALIVE
5+ hour, 28+ min ago (113+ words) MTV Lebanon Science Fiction - When war becomes a game Personality Of The Day: Queen Elizabeth II - "It's all the Italians' fault" The “Third World”… A lie born in the shadow of the Cold War - Packaging - Destruction and reconstruction Claudia Nehme…...
Woman detained for alleged vandalism
4+ hour, 59+ min ago (286+ words) A 39-year-old Taiwanese woman has been arrested on arrival at Japan’s Kansai International Airport on Saturday on suspicion of splashing a liquid on a national treasure housed in a temple in Nara when she visited it in April, Japanese media…...