The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has investigated hundreds of UFO cases without disclosing the information to the public domain. The agency has been serious about UFOs since the 1940s. The CIA kept it a secret for 50 years until the 1990s after being...
The Cold War was an ideological showdown between the East and the West. Communism vs. capitalism. Pepsi vs. Coke. (That last one is a bit more literal than you might think.) It lasted for decades and kept generations of people on edge as the fear of all-o...
Although we already know a bit about the famous affairs that happened during the Cold War, that particular era spanned more than four decadesenough time for a lot of wackiness. Aside from learning about the slew of ridiculous government projects, lets als...
The Cold War was a period of distrust and hatred between the western Allies (most notably the United States) and the members of the Eastern Bloc, specifically the Soviet Union. While there was distrust between both sides during World War II, it became mor...
American intelligence operations during the Cold War were filled with embarrassing failures and botched projects. But there were also ridiculously bold, insane schemes that worked beautifully.10 Digging A Tunnel To Spy On The East GermansIn 1951, the CIA ...
Weve previously talked about bizarre things that happened during the Cold War, and there are many more such stories. Four decades truly is more than enough time for all sorts of wackiness.10 Nixons Pretend Attack On The SovietsPhoto via WikimediaIn Octobe...
The Cold War is a name given to the years following World War II up until the collapse of the Soviet Union. During that time, the United States and the Soviet Union had a tense standoff.The two sides began an arms race, making as much advanced technology ...
Under the surface, the Cold War wasnt all that cold. All the key players backed campaigns of espionage and even murder. In this environment, assassins flourished like never before. As deadly killers ranged across the world, everyone was a suspect and no o...
The Titanic is one of the most famous shipwrecks on the seafloor, but for decades following the 1912 disaster, its debris remained undetected. It took a secret Cold War Navy mission to find two unrelated vessels to finally pinpoint the doomed ship's l...
The whole world is aware of the mysterious disappearance of Australian pilot Frederick Valentich whose family is still hoping that he would come back one day. Before vanishing, he reported seeing a mysterious object in the sky. Unfortunately, his bod...
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has investigated hundreds of UFO cases without disclosing the information to the public domain. The agency has been serious about UFOs since the 1940s. The CIA kept it a secret for 50 years until the 1990s after...
In 1961, Life magazine, then the most popular general-interest weekly in the United States, announced that it wanted to help win the Cold War. Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro had taken control of Cuba two years earlier, making nearby Latin Ameri...
Advances in refrigeration technology led to an explosion in the world of ice creams and other frozen treats in the early 1900s. The ice cream cone, ice cream bar, Eskimo Pie, disposable ice cream cup, and ice pop were all invented or popularized with...
In 1957, Vilyam "Willie" Genrikhovich Fisher (aka Rudolf Ivanovich Abel) was convicted of conspiracy to “act in the United States as an agent of a foreign government without notification to the Secretary of State,” conspiracy to “obtain American...
Advances in refrigeration technology led to an explosion in the world of ice creams and other frozen treats in the early 1900s. The ice cream cone, ice cream bar, Eskimo Pie, disposable ice cream cup, and ice pop were all invented or popularized with...
In 1957, Vilyam "Willie" Genrikhovich Fisher (aka Rudolf Ivanovich Abel) was convicted of conspiracy to “act in the United States as an agent of a foreign government without notification to the Secretary of State,” conspiracy to “obtain American...
Geoff Sowreyvia Flickr //CC BY-NC 2.0Perched in the jungle on the Pacific edge of Costa Rica, a 1954 Fairchild C-123 Provider aircraft originally built for the U.S. Air Force sits looking like it might have crashed into a hill. It’s a cargo plane, t...
Andrew LenoirDeep in the Muttontown Preserve of East Norwich, New York, off a series of winding trails, lies a graffitied staircase to nowhere. It’s one of just a few crumbling structures nearly swallowed by the woods—all that’s left of the Knollw...
U-2 designer Kelly Johnson with Francis Gary Powers (left to right).U.S. Air Force, Wikimedia Commons // Public DomainThe 2015 Steven Spielberg film Bridge of Spies tells the story of a captured U.S. Air Force pilot who was released from Soviet priso...
NASA/JPLIn 1950, a group of scientists proposed the International Geophysical Year (IGY), a sort of "Science Olympics" in which nations of the world would embark on ambitious experiments and share results openly and in the spirit of friendship. ...
Those 300,000 high-readiness NATO troops? ‘Concept,’ not reality.
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How Duterte’s Time in Power Shook Up the Philippines
The Punisher. Dirty Harry. Donald Trump of the East. These were nicknames given to President Rodrigo Duterte, a fiery populist who waged a deadly war on drugs in the Philippines. Elected in 2016, he scrambled the country’s international loyalties, shook up big business and angered women’s groups and the Catholic Church. And that was before missteps in handling the Covid-19 pandemic led to one of the highest case rates in Southeast Asia and tens of thousands of deaths, tanking the economy as well
NATO summit — Swedish, Norwegian and Estonian PMs — G7 flop
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Putin says it'd be 'disgusting' to see Western leaders topless
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Evil Genius 2 World Domination is coming to consoles
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Tacoma woman pleads guilty to stealing more than $600,000
SEATTLE (AP) — A 40-year-old Tacoma woman has pleaded guilty to wire fraud involving a scheme to defraud friends and acquaintances out of more than $600,000. Sabrina Taylor admitted to lying about her health, employment status, and education to steal money from people who had offered to help her, said U.S.
Heard seeks to throw out verdict in Depp defamation trial
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard's lawyers have asked a judge to throw out the $10.35 million verdict against her in the defamation case filed by ex-husband Johnny Depp, arguing that the verdict was not supported by the evidence and that one of the jurors may not have been properly vetted by the court.
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