The Soviet Union captured almost 3 million German POWs and many of them died in custody or were used as forced labor Featured News
A bristlecone pine in Nevada became a contender for the title of world’s oldest tree, but only after it had been cut down Featured News
Art critics initially assumed that Grant Wood’s famous painting “American Gothic” was a satire of rural small-town life News
The Astana Cemetery: the public underground cemetery of the ancient Gaochang residents is one of the most famous monuments of Turpan in China Featured News
The Tomb of Zechariah facing the old city of Jerusalem is considered to be a great symbol of the Holy City Featured News
Salvage hunters believe they are close to finding what is left of John Paul Jones’ ship, Bonhomme Richard Featured News
Cora Pearl- The decadent 19th-century French Courtesan once had waiters carry her naked on a silver plate Featured News
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“Pumpkin bombs” were non-nuclear test bombs with the same ballistic and handling characteristics as the “Fat Man”, the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki News