It’s the 28th November 1960 and a mysterious SOS signal is apparently heard by two former amateur radio operators sitting in a makeshift experimental listening station set in a disused German bunker in Torre Bert. Their ...
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In July 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus in response to a Greek-backed military coup in the country. Since then the island has effectively been divided, with Turkish Cypriots in the North and Greek Cypriots in the south. ...
The colour pictures below taken by photographer Frank Scherschel show in vivid colour the preparation for the D-Day invasion in June 1944, and the events in France following the landings on June 6th. ...
The 2001 war film Enemy at the Gates had a distinctly British cast, including Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins and Rachel Weisz, but the story it told is that of a Russian sniper and war ...
Mysterious disappearances have always gripped public imagination, from the Bermuda Triangle to the vanished crew of the Marie Celeste. However, many people have never heard of Roanoke Colony, an attempt to set up an English presence ...
Here’s an interesting twist on some iconic historical images recreated in LEGO form. Via Balacov on Flickr ...
He was the self-proclaimed Emperor of the USA. He was a failed rice investor. He proposed tunnelling under San Francisco Bay – and bridging over it. He was a madman. And 30,000 people paid tribute to ...
The photos below compare scenes in East Germany before unification in the early 1990s, and then the same scenes 10 years later. Taken by photographer Stefan Koppelkamm during two trips to the ex-Communist state. The two things ...
Have you ever noticed that the grim reaper is often pictured sporting a wicked grin? It’s probably not surprising since the dude has a macabre sense of humor and he’s not afraid to use it. Even ...
Detroit, up until the 1950′s was a bustling industrial town, once the 4th largest in the USA. Over the next 50 years the city saw its population fall by 60% largely caused by poor town planning, ...
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