In 1966, the US Strategic Air Command lost four nuclear weapons over Spain when a B-52 bomber collided with a tanker plane.

In 1966, the US Strategic Air Command lost four nuclear weapons over Spain when a B-52 bomber collided with a tanker plane.
The first evidence we have for the use of fire by early hominids comes from several sites, dated roughly 1 million years ago, which were likely occupied by Homo erectus. But the earliest evidence for hominids actually making fire is much younger.
The Mitchell Park Botanical Conservatory, more popularly known as “The Domes”, is a county-run botanical garden in Milwaukee. The collection is housed inside three large domes, each one containing plants from a particular climatic and geographical zone (domestic gardens, tropical forests, and deserts).
Buluc, also known as Puluc, is an ancient board game played by the Maya in Central America.
One of the more interesting displays in Arizona’s Musical Instrument Museum centers around an extremely odd instrument called the “theramin”.
The sling is best-known from the Biblical legend of David and Goliath. But it is one of the most ancient of weapons, likely dating back over 10,000 years.
A short history of “museums”.
During the First World War, the US Army depended for most of its tactical communications upon a small group of female volunteers called “the Hello Girls”.
The iceberg that sank the Titanic in April 1912 had a history that stretched back over several thousand years.
Continue reading The Iceberg That Sank the “Titanic”At the time it was built, the Willow Run B-24 factory in Michigan was the largest and most ambitious aviation project ever undertaken.
Zohn Ahl was a racing game that was played in different versions by a variety of Native American nations on the western Plains.
The Piper Cub was one of the first successful general aviation aircraft, and became one of the most widely-produced airplanes in history.
First things first: the story that you have probably heard about the founding of “Baseball” is not true.
The museum of the Indiana Historical Society presents unique “living history” exhibits.
The Vampire legend dates back for hundreds of years. But it did not finally die until the last years of the 19th century, in New England.
Continue reading The New England Vampires