Category: Greatest Hits • Page 9/10

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Any Officer Who Goes Into Action Without His Sword is Improperly Dressed

In 1940, some of the German commanders who were overseeing the push into France began to receive seemingly random rep...

Written by Jason Bellows • 06 May 2006 • Read →

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Earth’s Artificial Ring: Project West Ford

At the height of the Cold War in the late 1950s, all international communications were either sent through undersea c...

Written by Anthony Kendall • 02 May 2006 • Read →

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America’s Secret Plan to Invade Canada

At a length of 5,522 miles (8,891 kilometers), Canada and the United States share the longest non-militarized border...

Written by Greg Bjerg • 14 Apr 2006 • Read →

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A Potentially Disastrous Design Error

With its distinctive forty-five degree diagonal crown, the Citicorp building is one of the most recognizable skyscrap...

Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Apr 2006 • Read →

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Let Slip the Dogs of War

The Nazi Blitzkrieg was a revolution in warfare that forced the rest of the world into a wild scramble to figure out...

Written by Jason Bellows • 11 Apr 2006 • Read →

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Lucid Decapitation

For thousands of years, the forceful removal of the human head has been used as a form of capital punishment. In fact...

Written by Alan Bellows • 08 Apr 2006 • Read →

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The Smoldering Ruins of Centralia

There is a small town in Pennsylvania called Ashland where Route 61's northbound traffic is temporarily branched onto...

Written by Alan Bellows • 29 Mar 2006 • Read/Listen →

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A Life More Colorful

Human beings normally see in color. We are natural trichromats-- we have three different color receptors that permit...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 21 Mar 2006 • Read →

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The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time...

Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Mar 2006 • Read →

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The Crypt of Civilization

In the basement of Phoebe Hearst Hall at Oglethorpe University in Georgia, there is a stainless steel vault door whic...

Written by Alan Bellows • 17 Feb 2006 • Read →

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