Winston Churchill’s Audacious Plan to Build an Aircraft Carrier Out of Ice
Is the secret to building an unsinkable aircraft carrier hiding in your ice cube tray?
Is the secret to building an unsinkable aircraft carrier hiding in your ice cube tray?
A tank collector found the vehicle on eBay.
On December 24, 1955, the red telephone at the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center started to ring. When they picked up the phone, a little girl asked an unexpected question: “Are you really Santa Claus?”
"Operation Toenails," anyone?
Service animals and working military dogs are still permitted, as are authorized visitors on bicycles.
An IED took all four of his limbs. A team of 12 surgeons needed 14 hours to replace two of them.
The U.S. military studies everything from uniform button placement to traveler's diarrhea to organ transplants with the same intense rigor.
Brigadier Sir Nils Olav is the most highly-decorated bird in the world.
Renaissance-era kings and princes liked to think of themselves as the spiritual and actual descendants of ancient Roman conquerors.
The press started with: "Did you get the black-eyed peas when you got home?"
The Navy wants to reduce its dependence on GPS.
Eat all you can eat.
At her Studio for Portrait Masks in Paris, Anna Coleman Ladd created metal masks for soldiers who had been wounded in World War I.
Held captive in Afghanistan for five years, Bowe Bergdahl's story is the subject of intense scrutiny—and a full season of 'Serial.'
James Bond wasn't the only spy with cool gadgets in the 20th century.
War heroes comes in all shapes and sizes—and species.
Residents of an East London neighborhood got quite a surprise earlier today when police knocked on the door to say a decades-old bomb had been discovered in the area.
Everyone from New England Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick to Tupac Shakur has supposedly read the 2500-year-old text’s 13 chapters on the 13 aspects of warfare.
While some World War II soldiers were storming the beaches of Normandy, others were busy drafting posters to school soldiers on the dangers of venereal diseases.
Excerpts from a 1919 U.S. report on German attitudes towards American troops.
He enlisted in the Army on May 26, 1827, under the alias of Edgar A. Perry, claiming to be a twenty-two-year-old clerk from Boston.
Militaries have been messing around with tear gas—a chemical weapon that dates back to the early 20th century—since World War I.
You might be surprised to learn these men and women served in the Marines.
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