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Divers found the only known surviving German boat of its class; it had spent nearly 83 years hidden 315 feet beneath the Ionian SeaA long-forgotten German warship, the LS 6, has been discovered underwater off Greece. This unique vessel, built by an aircraft manufacturer...- In 1943, Germany deployed a rare World War II torpedo boat. 83 years later, divers found the vessel nearly intact on the Ionian seabed, ending a decade-long search and potentially identifying the last surviving boat of its typeGerman WWII torpedo boat discovered: Researchers located the rare German naval boat LS 6 in the Ionian Sea. This vessel sank off western Gr...
- Did Churchill let 30 lakh Indians die? A journo took on Amartya SenMadhusree Mukerjee's book revived the debate on the 1943 Bengal Famine, questioning Amartya Sen's analysis of food entitlement failures. Ne...
- Raise your amphorae to 1st-2nd-c. plonkArchaeologists discovered five hundred ancient jars from a Roman shipwreck. These jars were stacked on the seafloor off the coast of Sicily...
- Italian divers found a 2,100-year-old Roman shipwreck beneath 151 feet of water; its cargo still held about 500 wine jarsAn underwater fisherman discovered a Roman shipwreck near Mazara del Vallo. Hundreds of ancient wine jars, called amphorae, were found pile...
- Quote of the Day by Winston Churchill: ‘It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the…’ - Ex-UK PM’s powerful words on determination and successWinston Churchill's stirring quote encapsulates the vital link between victory and survival, a truth that is as applicable in today's world...
- Code Name Silver: The Indian spy who played 5 sides in World War IIKnown by the British codename “Silver”, Talwar operated across German, Italian, Soviet, British and Japanese intelligence networks while ma...
- Hiroshima 1945: Why the atomic explosion that transformed war, peace and global power still matters 80 years laterEight decades after the Hiroshima atomic bombing, the event remains a defining moment. The bombings accelerated World War II's end and init...
- ‘Don’t want to kill people,' Trump says Iran asked him to halt the ‘biggest attack’ since WWIIPresident Trump stated he prefers a deal with Iran to avoid conflict. He claimed Iran requested talks after the United States prepared for ...
- Meet Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja: Indian Maharaja who saved 1,000 Polish children from the Nazis during World War IIMeet Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja, the Maharaja of Nawanagar who in 1942 opened his princely state to nearly 1,000 Polish children fl...
- In 1941, a Black American scientist and industrialist and business magnate built a car with never-seen-before plastic made from soybean and other crops: How the soybean car became an early experiment in plant-based automobilesIn 1941, a Black American scientist and industrialist and business magnate built a car with never-seen-before plastic made from soybean and...
- Built to hunt enemy submarines during World War II, this device later transformed our understanding of the seafloorWorld War II fluxgate magnetometer: A World War II device found new scientific purpose after the war. Oceanographers refitted the fluxgate ...
- Hiroshima Day 2026 poster, speech ideas: Best messages, quotes and themes for August 6Looking for Hiroshima Day poster and speech ideas? Here are simple themes, messages and speech points to remember Hiroshima on August 6.
- CCTV cameras were first used to monitor Nazi V-2 rockets: Here's how wartime technology became a global surveillance toolCCTV technology originated in 1942 for monitoring Nazi rocket launches. Early systems lacked recording capabilities, making them impractica...
- How Polish resistance fighters stole Hitler's 'wonder weapon' and smuggled it to Britain in one of WWII's boldest missionsPolish resistance fighters undertook a daring World War II mission. They successfully stole and hid Adolf Hitler's top-secret V2 rocket. Th...
- In 1533, a Portuguese ship loaded with gold, silver and other treasures was heading to India. It was found in Namibia nearly 500 years later by a diamond mining company, but without any trace of its crewA 16th-century Portuguese ship, the Bom Jesus, was found buried beneath Namibian desert sands. This remarkably preserved wreck yielded a va...
- The Danube has fallen to one of its lowest levels in decades, exposing possible mammoth remains and a coal ship that sank in 1937As Europe's Danube River hits alarming low levels, it unveils treasures from the past such as ancient mammoth bones and historical wrecks, ...
- The landing boat that became a D-Day legend: In 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor, a patent was filed that helped defeat Nazi GermanyHiggins boat: Andrew Higgins patented a landing craft with a bow ramp on December 8, 1941. This invention, the Higgins Boat, enabled troops...
- In 2024, the Baltic Sea gave up a ship filled with royal gifts that never reached a Russian TsarA Baltic Sea shipwreck discovered in 2024 may have carried gifts for Czar Alexander II. The vessel sank around 1856 or 1857 after the Crime...
- At least 8,500 potentially polluting shipwrecks are rusting on the ocean floor with fuel still inside; leaks in Micronesia show the risk that one storm or earthquake could unleashSunken World War II warships are becoming a significant pollution threat globally. These vessels hold vast amounts of oil and are slowly co...
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