Hitler’s Precision-Guided Bombs: Fritz X & Hs 293

Perhaps the most memorable depictions of recent conflict are the videos showing small targets hit by bombs guided by lasers or the Global…

The Chopping Block: The Fate of Warplanes after WWII

A similar fate awaited many outmoded fighter planes. P-39 Airacobras, P-40 Warhawks, and F4F and FM-2 Wildcats were nearly worthless as far as…

World War II Female WASP Pilot: Proud to Serve Her Country

Larned, Kansas, native Lucile Doll Wise knows better than most what Women’s History Month – she was part of history, during WW II.…

Why D-Day?

Top Photo: Coast Guard-manned USS LST-21 unloads British Army tanks and trucks onto a Rhino barge during the early hours of the invasion,…

Panhard M3 VDA :Air defence variant armed with twin Hispano-Suiza 820 SL 20mm

BTR Panhard Defense M3 equipped with a turret armed 7,62-mm machine gun The M3 armored personnel carrier was created by the French company…

Beaver Dick Leigh, Mountain Man of the Tetons

The pack train moved slowly through the remaining snowdrifts of late spring in the Tetons, heading for the mountain valley ahead. The buckskin…

Tipón, Peru and The Hydro Engineering Marvel of the Inca

Updated 9 May, 2015 - 13:49 Bryan Hill Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tipón is one of…

Ancient Aqueduct System Discovered In Boroujerd, Lorestan

AncientPages.com - An ancient aqueduct system, which is estimated to belong to the historical castle of the city, has been uncovered in Borujerd…

The Aztec sun stone

Aztec Sun Stone Dennis Jarvis (CC BY-SA) The Aztec Sun Stone (or Calendar Stone) depicts the five consecutive worlds of the sun from…

The Enigma of the Giant Book

A minor mystery has been on the internet since 2013, and it revolves around the above image. This photograph, attributed to M. Peterka…

This heavy French tank could be pierced with a pistol

French tank designers had an ambitious idea before World War I: What if they could create a vehicle with the protection of an…

How America’s Wristwatch Industry Became a War Casualty

Top Photo: Evolution of the military watch, from left: 1944 Bulova A-11, 1952 Bulova A-17, 1969 Hamilton GG-W-113 Pilots watch In the years leading…