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Man Discovers $2.4 Million in Gold in Ex-Army Tank

(via Popular Mechanics) Who ever said collections are for suckers? Tank collector Nick Mead literally struck gold. After purchasing an

(via Atlas Obscura) Around 1900, so-called “man-lifting kites” were gaining in popularity throughout the U.S. and Europe and had especially

(via Retronaut) Shortly after entering World War II, the US military found that delivering immense volumes of mail to and

(via Atlas Obscura) In the waning months of World War II, as the likelihood of a land invasion of the

(via Atlas Obscura) During the First World War, a menagerie of animals became honorary soldiers in the American army. Whether for the

(via Popular Mechanics) Bootlegging gangsters firing a barrage of bullets at the G-men in pursuit—that’s picture you might have of

(via Amusing Planet) In the North Atlantic, British fleets were taking a pounding against German U-boats. Planes could protect the

(via Neatorama) Here’s a piece of Atomic Age history you’ve probably never heard of: the civilian Ground Observer Corps, thousands

(via Popular Mechanics) In the middle of the barren Nevada desert, there’s a dusty unmarked road that leads to the

(via Atlas Obscura) The “Bomb Alarm System,” designed and implemented by Western Union, wasn’t a secret, but it was unobtrusive

(via Popular Mechanics) In January 1945, just months before Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War Two, George S. Patton declared

(via Atlas Obscura) Winston Churchill broadcast these words from a secret underground command center in central London on September 11,