"controlled"...as in "didn't actually take out half the county". :eek:
Amazing how much ordnance is still turning up.
"Elwood “Woody” Hughes, war veteran and witness to events on Iwo Jima, passed away February 2nd aged 95. As a Marine he was present on the...
Superb stuff.
"Over 100 Dutchmen were sent to their deaths at a secret Nazi gas chamber in 1941, a year before Nazis began mass deportations of Jews to gas...
Maybe thought Benito was setting the bar a bit high? ;)
Just found this interesting story. "On 7 April 1926 an Irish woman stepped out from a crowd in Rome and fired a shot at one of the 20th century's...
That's good news.
Amazing they weren't discovered before now. "More than 80 skeletons found in a mass grave in the Dutch city of Vianen have been identified as...
A few years ago when I was looking for the Fillon family in Setif, I posted on a local version of Ancestry.com. Might be worth trying to see if...
No apology necessary, Old Boy. Annoys the crap out of me too.
Or the Famine of Mount Lebanon. "'The Ottoman Empire should be cleaned up of the Armenians and the Lebanese. We have destroyed the former by the...
Interesting theory. "A giant comet that 'pin-balled' off Jupiter then slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago killed off the dinosaurs - not...
Well, shiver me timbers! "For the pirates of the 18th century, treasure meant gold. But for the US investigators at Whydah Pirate Museum in Cape...
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Belated welcome to the forums, Jim!
Another unsung hero gets belated recognition. "GIBRALTAR is to honour a wartime naval leader who defied orders from a French admiral to save...
"Captain Sir Tom Moore's death today aged 100 marks the end of an extraordinary life that saw him go from WWII hero to quiz show star and then a...
The images are incredibly clear. "Scientists have revealed an incredibly detailed image of the moon's surface showing objects as small as five...
We'll probably never know the truth behind this gut-wrenching story. "It is now over a century since bombing from the air became an integral...
