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A Historian Finally Identified the Nazi in This Infamous 84-Year-Old Photograph

6+ hour, 2+ min ago  (419+ words) Here's what you will learn when you read this story: This story is a collaboration with Biography.com When Hannah Arendt reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in her landmark work Eichmann in Jerusalem, she coined the phrase "banality…...

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popularmechanics.com > military > a70/62/3009 > archaeologists-found-5-bodies-under-nazi-wolfs-lair-hitler

Archaeologists Found 5 Mysterious Bodies Under the Floors of Hitler’s Secret Lair

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (506+ words) A grim discovery sheds new light on the dark history of a Nazi fortress. This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Amateur archaeologists were searching for stray artifacts in an abandoned building in Poland when they made a sinister…...

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popularmechanics.com > science > a70/43/3682 > greenland-ice-secret-base-nasa-found

NASA Found a Secret Military Base Buried 100 Feet Deep in Greenland’s Ice Shelf

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (521+ words) The base is abandoned, but the U.S. Army left some waste behind. Over the years, we've dug up a lot of stuff buried underneath layers upon layers of ice. Ancient tools, animal corpses, World War II planes, volcanoes'you name it, ice…...

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popularmechanics.com > science > a70/30/0155 > is-bermuda-triangle-mystery-solved-scientist

This Man Says He’s Solved the Bermuda Triangle. Why Doesn’t the World Believe Him?

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (368+ words) Pick any one of the more than 50 ships or 20 planes that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in the last century. Each one has a story without an ending, leading to a litany of conspiracy theories about the disappearances in…...

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popularmechanics.com > military > weapons > a65/05/4667 > hitler-v2-rockets-allied-forces

Inside Hitler's Secretive WWII Plot to Build the World's First Ballistic ’Vengeance Weapons’

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1132+ words) How women played a crucial role in halting Hitler's terrorizing V2 rockets, the weapons that reshaped modern warfare. Browning never reached the train. Bombing raids were a constant threat for locals, but this made no sense'there were no bombers in the…...

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popularmechanics.com > science > archaeology > a64/74/6431 > ontario-shipwreck

An 8-Year-Old Boy Got a Metal Detector for His Birthday—and Found a 170-Year-Old Shipwreck

10+ mon, 1+ day ago  (678+ words) Michale Natale is a News Editor for the Hearst Enthusiast Group. As a writer and researcher, he has produced written and audio-visual content for more than fifteen years, spanning historical periods from the dawn of early man to the Golden…...

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popularmechanics.com > science > a64/55/1935 > uss-yorktown-ford-woody

A Classic Car Appeared on a Sunken WWII Aircraft Carrier. No One Knows Who Put It There.

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (614+ words) Michale Natale is a News Editor for the Hearst Enthusiast Group. As a writer and researcher, he has produced written and audio-visual content for more than fifteen years, spanning historical periods from the dawn of early man to the Golden…...