Amazing! Cutting A World War Two Bunker In Half To Create a War Memorial
Bunker 599, located in the Netherlands, was cut in half and has been turned into an artistic war memorial. Originally built in 1939, the bunker…
John Glenn, the Astronaut and Senator Who Flew Combat Missions in Korea and World War Two
John Glenn, born July 18th, 1921, is currently the oldest living former U.S. senator. Before his 25-year career in the Senate (1974-1999), however, he earned…
Remembering The Slaughterhouse That Was Verdun In The First World War
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande met in Verdun, the site of a 300-day WWI battle that failed to produce a victor.…
The Dedicated Volunteers Giving Proper Burials to WW2 Soldiers Killed in Battle
Volunteers in Russia searched a riverbank outside St. Petersburg and located the remains of five Soviet soldiers who died while defending the city in World…
The Manhattan Project’s Hanford Site Yields Difficult Questions
A family took a road trip to the Pacific Northwest. It was a father, mother and six-year-old daughter that traveled to Seattle and the Canadian…
How Geology Influenced the American Civil War
According to an article published in Geosphere, the Civil War – particularly the key battle at Gettysburg – was influenced by rock formations. Geosphere is…
Skull from the Battle of Culloden 3D scanned for replication
3D digital scanning technology has been used to recreate a model of a skull from the battlefields of Culloden. The section of skull that has…
British Officer’s WWI Diary Exposes Brutal Jungle Warfare in West Africa
The Great War is mainly associated with trench warfare and battlefields in Europe, though the war raged on other continents as well. The British National Army Museum…
America’s World War I Memorial Design – Winner To Be Announced Soon
The United States maintained a policy of strict neutrality, following the outbreak of the First World War. President Woodrow Wilson believed he could negotiate a…
How Europeans Help Search For Missing World War II Soldiers
Image source: VGBO Chris Seiwert, a 59-year-old German criminal attorney, was angry and frustrated so he did what most modern tech-savvy people do and he…
Archaeologists In The Netherlands Discover One of Caesar’s Battlefields
Archaeologists in the Netherlands have come across something quite amazing. They believe that they have found the remains of one of Julius Caesar’s battlefields and…
New Excavations Reveal 250 Year Old British Fort in New York State
A new excavation at Lake George Battlefield Park in New York State has revealed over 250 year old stone walls belonging to a British fort…