A small roadside monument beside US Highway 34 in rural Nebraska carries the memory of a survival story that began inside the barracks of Dachau concentration camp. The Our Lady of Fatima Shrine, located on the grounds of St. Germanus Catholic Church in Arapahoe, was built to fulfil a solemn promise made by Father Henry…
The restoration preserved some of the aircraft’s original components in unexpected ways. (Photo: Vintage Aviation News) A World War II-era training aircraft that spent nearly five decades packed away in boxes after its retirement, moving with its private owner from one place to another, has now been restored to airworthy condition.The WACO UPF-7, serial number…
Five miles from the South Dakota border, a dirt road winds through the Nebraska prairie towards a town that has almost vanished. Monowi still has its street signs, a few battered buildings and three lampposts, but there is only one person left to see them each morning. Elsie Eiler, 84, lives in a trailer beside…
Representative Image of Chosha praecursor, an early insect with paddle-like abdominal appendages in a prehistoric landscape (AI-generated image) Today, insects occupy nearly every terrestrial environment on Earth and account for more described species than any other animal group, yet the earliest stages of their evolutionary history remain poorly documented. A newly described species from western…
PC: Sapienza University of Rome In 1963, archaeologists exploring Romito Cave in Calabria, southern Italy, uncovered an unusual Upper Palaeolithic burial in which two people lay together in an embrace more than 12,000 years ago. For decades, the remains were believed to belong to an adult male and an adolescent male, with their differences in…
Kansas City bride Katrina Badowski. A Kansas City bride has gone viral after receiving a jury duty summons for the same day as her wedding in Rome, more than 5,000 miles away.Katrina Badowski, 35, received the summons on August 14, requiring her to report for a week of jury duty starting Monday — the day…
Islamic Center of San diego. (AP Photo) A 17-year-old girl has been charged with three counts of murder after allegedly recording a livestream of a shooting at a California mosque that left three people dead, authorities said.According to the BBC, the teenager from North Carolina was also accused of publishing a manifesto written by the…
Representative Image (AI-generated) What happens when waste from a coal-fired power station is placed beneath the sea? In 1989, researchers in the UK built an experimental artificial reef from 50 tons of stabilised coal-fired power station waste, and marine life began moving in almost immediately. The unusual experiment took place in Poole Bay, off the…
About five hours after the initial implosion attempt, the old Broadway Bridge finally came down (Image Credit: YouTube/ @Associated Press) The explosives went off as planned. The 93-year-old bridge, however, did not. On October 11, 2016, a demolition crew attempted to bring down Arkansas’s aging Broadway Bridge with a controlled implosion, clearing the way for…
The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sails past Singapore. (AP Photo) The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is set to dock near Thailand’s Pattaya on Wednesday, bringing nearly 5,000 sailors and Marines to the popular tourist city, as local authorities step up police patrols and crack down on sex workers.Thai officials said the…