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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Secret Nazi Ice Bunker in Antarctica?
[Daily Mail] According to German naval archives, months after the Nazis surrendered to the Allies in April 1945, a U-530 submarine arrived at the South Pole from the Port of Kiel. The crew are rumoured to have constructed a still undiscovered ice cave ‘and supposedly stored several boxes of relics from the Third Reich, including Hitler's secret files’.A later claim was that a U-977 submarine delivered remains of Hitler and Eva Braun to Antarctica in the hope they could be cloned from their DNA.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Last World War I Veteran Dies at 110
[Business Insider] "In a way, that the last veteran should be a lady and someone who served on the home front is something that reminds me that warfare is not confined to the trenches," noted the director-general of the RAF Museum. The last known WWI combat veteran, Claude Choules, died last year, also at age 110.
High school student finds 4000 year old artifact in Connecticut
[Archaeo News] This type of ancient artifact is known as a Burwell projectile point and was probably used as the tip of a spear.
Earliest Copy of Mona Lisa Found
[Discovery] The discovery suggests the picture was being produced at the same time as Leonardo was painting his masterpiece.
140 year old shipreck washes ashore in Lake Michigan
[Mlive] A substantial hull piece that shipwreck experts believe comes from the schooner Jennie and Annie, which sunk in the Manitou Passage in 1872, has washed up on a remote stretch of Lake Michigan.
First Pictures of First Sub to Sink a Ship:in 1864
[National Geographic] Shown in a South Carolina conservation facility, the Hunley sank the U.S.S. Housatonic off Charleston in 1864. Within minutes the sub itself sank too-killing its eight-man crew and creating an enduring mystery.
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