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They Built a Monster Factory That Stretched for Miles'and Called It "Hitler's Headache'
17+ hour, 21+ min ago (1059+ words) Inside, thousands of machines turned raw metal into engines powerful enough to carry bombers across continents. From the archives: This story originally appeared in the November 1943 issue of Popular Mechanics. We're republishing it now as part of our ongoing look…...
Nazis Stole the "Eighth Wonder of the World." 80 Years Later, Treasure Hunters Still Can"t Find It
2+ week, 1+ day ago (298+ words) The mystery of the where the Amber Room went has persisted for decades. This story is a collaboration with Biography. com. The Nazis" systematic theft of art and other valuables during the Second World War, while less horrifying than the…...
The Tragic 100-Year Mystery of a Missing WWI Hero'and the Two Forgotten Clues That Finally Solved It
3+ week, 1+ day ago (745+ words) It took a century for the family of Private 1st Class Charles Mc Allister to finally find closure. This story is a collaboration with Biography. com. The level of carnage in World War I led many to believe it was "the…...
A Legendary WWII Plane Vanished in the Jungle. 80 Years Later, It Emerged From the Wild'Incredibly Preserved.
3+ week, 3+ day ago (520+ words) Major Richard Bong downed 40 Japanese aircraft in his trusty "Marge." Then, after a crash, it was lost to time. This story is a collaboration with Biography. com. Bong, who was known as the "Ace of Aces," took down all 40 of…...
A Historian Finally Identified the Nazi in This Infamous 84-Year-Old Photograph
1+ mon, 2+ week 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…...
Archaeologists Found 5 Mysterious Bodies Under the Floors of Hitler's Secret Lair
1+ mon, 3+ week 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…...
NASA Found a Secret Military Base Buried 100 Feet Deep in Greenland's Ice Shelf
2+ mon, 1+ week 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…...
This Man Says He's Solved the Bermuda Triangle. Why Doesn't the World Believe Him?
2+ mon, 2+ week 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…...
Inside Hitler's Secretive WWII Plot to Build the World's First Ballistic "Vengeance Weapons"
9+ mon, 6+ day 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…...
An 8-Year-Old Boy Got a Metal Detector for His Birthday'and Found a 170-Year-Old Shipwreck
11+ mon, 2+ week 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…...