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The Silent Ship Mystery: Still Unsolved After 77 Years part 2
In the radio room, they found the body of the radio operator who had sent the messages. His fingers were still on the Morse key, just as they had been when he sent the final message: “I die.”
By Imran Ali Shah8 days ago in History
Scud Missile Attacks on Pakistan (1989–1990): Soviet Withdrawal, Najibullah Government, and the Afghan War Fallout
On the morning of April 7, 1989, a Soviet-made Scud missile destroyed a post office in the Pakistani border town of Torkham after being launched from Kabul.
By Real content8 days ago in History
Iran hails ‘encouraging signals’ from US ahead of nuclear talks in Geneva
⁠Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that nuclear talks with the United States have produced “encouraging signals”, but warned that Tehran is prepared for any scenario ahead of another round of negotiations set for Thursday.
By Wings of Time 8 days ago in History
Iranians prefer 'precise' Israeli strike over US attack as protests resume at universities
Iranians, while "waiting every minute and second" for a US strike against the Islamic Regime, would prefer an Israeli strike due to the precise nature of the Air Force's strikes in June, while there is a perception that US strikes would "bring terrible destruction, like in Iraq and Afghanistan," a local, identified as Ali told KAN Reshet Bet on Sunday.
By Wings of Time 8 days ago in History
Why Attacking Iran Could Be Riskier Than Capturing Maduro
When President Trump said in January that a U.S. “armada” was heading to Iran, he compared it with the kind of force used in the military’s recent lightning operation in Venezuela, saying it was “able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence.”
By Wings of Time 8 days ago in History
Iran Could Direct Proxies to Attack U.S. Targets Abroad, Officials Warn
A new billboard in Tehran this month. The uncertainty surrounding possible threats from Iran’s proxy groups further complicates the Trump administration’s war planning. Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times
By Wings of Time 8 days ago in History
The Annotated Elephant Man
The discovery as a child of the haunting, tragic life story of Jospeh Carey "John" Merrick was one of the most defining creative and spiritual apsects of my personal development. Throwing a tantrum as a child, not wanting my parents to watch the stage play starring Philip Anglim as "John Merrick, " and Kevin Conway, and later seeing that same play rebroadcast in images that haunt me, dream-like, to this day; images that seemed to have welled up from some past existence. Images of an eerie, quiet, void-like place wherein a Victorian presumed "Doctor" is unaccountably taken by the prone figure of someone we never see. Someone that a mob or crowd has captured, lifting them above their shoulders, holding them up to the light of God, outside a growing circle of musty darkened despair.
By Tom Baker9 days ago in History
The earliest fossilised vomit in the world with intact remains is found by scientists.
The oldest known vomit from a terrestrial mammal is a lump of fossilised vomit that is around 290 million years old. An early land food chain can be redrawn thanks to 41 bone fragments that freeze a single meal from long before dinosaurs.
By Francis Dami9 days ago in History
AM vs FM - The Two Frequencies That Soundtracked America
There was a time when the most powerful thing in a house wasn’t the television, and it certainly wasn’t the phone in your pocket. It was a box, with dials...
By The Iron Lighthouse9 days ago in History
The Most Genius "Legal Robbery" In History
Ireland’s small village of Bellewstown still remembers a man who pulled off a $600,000 robbery in broad daylight. The shocking part? He had no gun and wore no mask. After the operation, he walked around freely, and the police couldn’t touch him—because everything he did was technically legal.
By Imran Ali Shah10 days ago in History
Why Russia Never Went Back to Planet Venus
In 1960, when the entire world had its eyes fixed on America’s Apollo missions, something terrifying was happening on our neighboring planet, Venus. The Soviet Union—today’s Russia—was secretly planning what could only be called suicide missions to Venus. After spending billions of dollars and years of effort, they built probes designed to do something unprecedented: land on another planet and capture its images.
By Imran Ali Shah11 days ago in History
A Century of Clues: The History of New York Times Crossword Culture
For many, solving a crossword puzzle is a quiet morning ritual, a mental stretch between coffee sips. Yet the story of the New York Times crossword is far more than a daily pastime—it is a century-long narrative woven into American culture, language, and collective cognition. From its humble beginnings to its digital transformation, the crossword has accumulated devoted solvers, landmark controversies, and an evolving identity that mirrors shifts in how we think, play, and connect.
By CEO A&S Developers11 days ago in History