12,000-year old stones may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone ...
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Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology Never Really Worked
From the Ford Nucleon to the Studebaker-Packard Astral, these vehicles failed to progress past the prototype stage in the ...
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Americans Fell in Love With Science When the Breathtaking Leonid Meteor Shower Lit Up the Skies Across the Nation
In 1833, hundreds of thousands of shooting stars inspired songs, prophecies and a crowdsourced research paper on the origins ...
Webslingers: How Net-Launching Drones Are Downing Russian Quadcopters
In WW1, the machinegun quickly emerged as the weapon of choice for biplanes. Now net launchers are emerging as the dominant ...
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When the ‘Sun Tobacco Fund’ Rushed to the Trenches of World War I a Taste of Home
The pack or two a soldier might carry in his pocket would be burned up during “the many lazy days devoted to sailing across ...
Remembering Armistice Day in Europe: Liberty should be cherished and defended
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has joined French President Emmanuel Macron at a Paris ceremony marking the 106th ...
Behind the scenes at Russell Military Museum
The Russell Military Museum in Zion began as a private collection in the '70s and has since expanded to fill a 10,000-square-foot space with artifacts dating back to WWI. The museum also displays 500 ...
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100 years of forgetting: How America’s veterans went from heroes to the forgotten
They appreciate family-inclusive activities, and their day-to-day communications are all technology-based ... It was the passage of legislation providing bonuses to WWI veterans. After the euphoria of ...
War correspondent Leslie James Fitz-Henry’s typewriter donated to Qld State Library
A typewriter and medal from a Courier-Mail war correspondent has been donated to the State Library of Queensland’s Collection ...
WWI Museum honors veterans with new exhbit, free events for Veterans Day
All weekend long, the World War I Museum and Memorial is offering free admission to veterans and military personnel, and half ...
Singapore launch planned for second-edition NT comic
AADFA Man, the Territory’s own wartime super hero, whose exploits helped keep the Japanese at bay, is back for a second ...
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India-Australia joint military exercise ‘Austrahind-III’ begins in Pune
The latest two-week exercise aims to strengthen the long-standing military partnership by sharing tactics, techniques and technology to achieve common ... between two nations that reaches back to WWI, ...