In WWII, Soviet partisans hid in the Odessa Catacombs, which stretch for thousands of miles below the city Abandoned Spaces Battlefields Strangeness
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Britain: The Principality of Sealand a pirate “micro-state” & band of Dutch & German mercenaries armed with assault rifles and charged the platform with a speedboat, jet skis, & helicopters Battlefields News Self-Propelled Strangeness
Stalin’s daughter defected to U.S. in 1967, but returned to the Soviet Union in 1984 Strangeness Battlefields
Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane: the fierce queen of San Francisco’s psychedelic scene wanted to drug Richard Nixon News Battlefields Glamour
Paul Newman almost died in action and other iconic Hollywood stars who served during WW2 Battlefields News Vintage Hollywood
Otto Skorzeny: The trusted Nazi SS commander and rescuer of Mussolini became a horse-breeder in Ireland Battlefields News Strangeness
Chiune Sugihara, known as “the Japanese Schindler,” saved more than 10,000 lives in Lithuania Strangeness Battlefields
The creators of “Curious George” built bicycles to flee Paris as the German army closed in Strangeness Battlefields
The Aztec macuahuitl, a sword with obsidian blades, was sharp enough to decapitate a horse News Archeology Battlefields Strangeness
The French founder of L’Oreal, world’s largest cosmetics company, admired Hitler and befriended Nazi leaders Strangeness Battlefields News