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Portuguese Fireplace.

Hampshire, England

Portuguese Fireplace

This unlikely memorial honors the Canadian and Portuguese laborers who felled trees for the Allies in World War I.

Permanently Closed

Graffiti at the base.

Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mostar Sniper Tower

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

"The Solider Takes a Wife."

What Planned Parenthood Taught WWII Veterans About Birth Control

“The step-up in your pulse when a nifty number looks your way isn’t love. That’s sex, mister.”

Sarah Laskow September 26, 2017

The sword's hilt.

Found: The Lost Sword of a Civil War Hero

Col. Robert Gould Shaw led the Civil War’s first all-black regiment, a story depicted in the 1989 movie "Glory."

Sarah Laskow July 14, 2017

Once protected as a native species, the emu became the enemy of Western Australia's farmers by destroying the region's wheat fields.

In 1932, Australia Started an 'Emu War'—And Lost

The Great Emu War in Western Australia was a bizarre and futile effort.

Urvija Banerji August 2, 2022

Test of Atomic Annie at Frenchman's Flat in Nevada, May 25, 1953.

objects of intrigue

'Atomic Annie' Was the World's First and Only Nuclear Gun

Twenty were made, but only one fired a nuclear shot.

Allison Meier June 26, 2013

A mudhif house

Al-Chibayish, Iraq

Mudhif Houses

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.