ARCHAEOLOGY
Humans did not drive Australia’s megafauna to extinction – climate change did
Humans did not drive Australia’s megafauna to extinction – climate change did The land that we now call Australia was […]
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WORLD WAR I
OPERATION ALBERICH, THE CAMPAIGN THAT INSPIRED SAM MENDES’ 1917
OPERATION ALBERICH, THE CAMPAIGN THAT INSPIRED SAM MENDES’ 1917 The WWI drama of Sam Mendes is based on the retreat […]
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WORLD WAR II
Night Witches: The Female Fighter Pilots of World War II
The Night Witches: The All-Female World War II Squadron That Terrified The Nazis The women of the Soviet Air Forces’ […]
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Humans did not drive Australia’s megafauna to extinction – climate change did
Humans did not drive Australia’s megafauna to extinction – climate change did The land that we now call Australia was populated between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago with gigantic creatures of all kinds, like kangaroos twice the size of man and dragon-like goannas. And according to a new study, for tens of thousands of years early humans probably coexisted alongside […]
Continue reading »A 46,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Site Was Just Deliberately Destroyed in Australia
A 46,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Site Was Just Deliberately Destroyed in Australia During the iron ore mine expansion this last weekend, a culturally important archaeological site has been destroyed in Western Australia. With state approval, the mining company responsible for the incident revealed the weak and bigoted conservation laws of Australia. On Sunday mining explosions destroyed the Juukan 1 and the Juukan […]
Continue reading »A Perfectly Preserved 32,000-Year-Old Wolf Head Was Found in Siberian Permafrost
A Perfectly Preserved 32,000-Year-Old Wolf Head Was Found in Siberian Permafrost You wouldn’t know what you might encounter during a casual stroll in Siberia. Local resident Pavel Efimov was walking along the Tirekhtyakh River in the Russian Republic of Sakha when he came across something bizarre: a severed wolf’s head. But when they were examined more closely by researchers, they found […]
Continue reading »Night Witches: The Female Fighter Pilots of World War II
The Night Witches: The All-Female World War II Squadron That Terrified The Nazis The women of the Soviet Air Forces’ 588th Night Bomber Regiment — better known as the Night Witches — have no radar, no machine guns, no radios, and no parachutes. They had only one map, a compass, rulers, stopwatches, torches and pencils. Yet over the course of four […]
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