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Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New ...

Sun, palm trees, and a patient pup. In a new boat ride video from @apollo_germanshepherd, a golden retriever watches the ...

A single fingerprint in ancient tar is rewriting the story of one of Scandinavia’s earliest seaborne raids. Researchers have ...

On August 27, 1941, a brand-new German U-boat and its inexperienced crew faced relentless attacks from 269 Squadron Hudsons.

In the chaos of Atlantic convoy warfare, a German U-boat found itself cornered by a British destroyer at close range. With no ...

Policymakers say strict new measures have driven down irregular arrivals, but experts say the underlying factors are little ...

European political and military leaders are ushering in 2026 with bellicose speeches that recall 1914, greeting the prospect ...

Groups of people thought to be migrants have been brought into Dover by the Border Force after a series of overnight Channel crossings. People were witnessed leaving northern France on Friday night ...

Images have emerged of a Chinese medium-sized cargo ship, docked at Shanghai’s Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard, fitted with a ...

After fighting at D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge, Frank Burgmeier was on Syracuse TV and then started his own public ...

There are thinkers throughout history who offer grand overarching explanations of economic growth. Karl Marx was an economic ...