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Time's ticking in hunt for the illusive Nazi gold train
War, huh, yeah, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin... words written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for the Motown label in 1969 that, although first recorded as an album track by The Temptations, went on to become a number one hit for Edwin Starr.
By Steve Harrison12 days ago in History
St. Petersburg: The City of Palaces, Canals and Centuries of History
There are cities that seem to have grown naturally over time. St. Petersburg is different. From the very beginning, it was created as an ambitious project.
By Lenka Čihařová13 days ago in History
Kazan: The City Where Russian and Tatar History Live Side by Side
But Kazan is interesting for much more than the fact that Islam and Orthodox Christianity exist side by side here. Its real story is far older – and far more complicated.
By Lenka Čihařová13 days ago in History
The Boy in the Box: After 65 Years, He Finally Had a Name
On February 25, 1957, a man in Philadelphia discovered something he would probably remember for the rest of his life. An ordinary cardboard box was lying beside a road in the Fox Chase neighborhood.
By Lenka Čihařová14 days ago in History
She Was 12 When the Plane Crashed Into the Sea. She Was the Only Survivor to Spend the Night in the Ocean
Then, as the aircraft came in to land, it began to shake violently. Moments later, Yemenia Airways Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean. There were 153 people on board. Bahia was twelve years old and could barely swim. Yet she was the only person to survive the crash. She found herself alone in the darkness of the ocean, clinging to a piece of wreckage and waiting to see whether anyone would find her. At that moment, no one knew that a little girl was still alive among the wreckage and bodies.
By Lenka Čihařová14 days ago in History
Anatomy of Evil: How the Tragedy of Child K. Helped Hitler Legitimize Mass Murder
In the summer of 1939, a request reached Hitler that might, at first glance, have appeared to be a desperate attempt by parents to end the suffering of a severely disabled child.
By Lenka Čihařová14 days ago in History
Radithor worked great until his jaw fell off: the insane story of eben byers
Meet Eben Byers. He was the kind of man who seemed to have everything. He was a wealthy American millionaire, the son of a powerful industrialist, a successful businessman and even a national golf champion. He lived the life of a 1920s playboy, surrounded by money, beautiful women, expensive parties and all the privileges that came with being rich.
By Lenka Čihařová15 days ago in History
I Remember 9/11. But My Memory Has Been Rewriting It for 25 Years.
You Remember September 11. Your Memory Has Been Rewritten. On September 11, 2001, I was in a living room in Boston. The television was on. My mother answered the phone, listened, hung up, and said, "Something has happened."
By Jin17 days ago in History
When America Built Buildings That Looked Like Lunch
Should the building look like the food? For a surprising number of business owners, the answer was yes. Absolutely... Make it enormous!
By The Iron Lighthouse18 days ago in History
When the military sealed off secrets of 'Tsarichina Hole'
The story of Golyamo Gradishte and the Cave of Bastet in the first part of this investigation finished on ancient Egyptian mythology about a foxy feline goddess and the possible whereabouts of her tomb in Bulgaria’s Strandzha Mountains but the second part moves on to far stranger territory a decade later and an even bigger mystery in a vast tunnel complex to the north under the country’s Balkan range, where a two-year excavation came to a rather abrupt end in November 1992 having found nothing... but at the cost of an arm and a leg.
By Steve Harrison20 days ago in History
Baba Vanga and Bulgaria's buried Egyptian anomalies
About 28 years after British entertainer and comedian Bernard Cribbins’ novelty song “The Hole In The Ground” was released a team sent in by the Bulgarian defence ministry was “digging this hole” in Tsarichina, about 30 kilometres outside Sofia, although “it’s not there now, the ground’s all flat” but beneath the stone that marks where the work supposedly took place you probably won’t find a “bloke in a bowler hat”.
By Steve Harrison20 days ago in History
Alternative Reconstruction and Assumption Sensitivity (The Global Catastrophe Prediction Framework - Part 2). AI-Generated.
The Global Catastrophe Prediction Framework distinguishes presently observed evidence from the historical conditions, mechanisms, and rate histories used to transform that evidence into a reconstruction of the past.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast25 days ago in History