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A sunken World War 1-era wooden ship potentially the size of a football field was discovered in a Texas river by a man on a jet ski after severe drought revealed the wreckage
The wreckage belonged to a wooden ship built in World War 1 that was abandoned in the Neches River …
Kelsey Vlamis
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Outraged Canadians forced Whole Foods to overturn a controversial rule banning employees from wearing national symbol in remembrance of veterans
Canadians nationwide wear the poppy to observe the upcoming Remembrance Day holiday, similar to Vet…
Thomas Pallini
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National World War I memorial vandalized with graffiti urging 'Don't Vote!' before it opened as a polling site
Two people spray-painted graffiti near entrances to the Kansas City, Missouri, memorial that said "…
David Choi
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Trump's Secretary of Veterans Affairs defended the president's reported insults toward the military, saying it's just 'politics'
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie responded to an Atlantic report that claimed Trump called …
Sinéad Baker
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The stories of 10 famous people who served in World War 1
And of the more than 65 million troops that were mobilized during the war, a handful of them were v…
Daniel Brown
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Players in the World War 1 video game 'Battlefield 1' held a ceasefire to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the day the war ended
The player who helped arrange the ceasefire posted a short video of the event on Reddit, but it's h…
Antonio Villas-Boas
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Russia is painting dark stripes on its warships to make them look smaller and confuse Ukrainian drones, says expert
Russia appears to be painting its Black Sea fleet with camouflage as a low-budget way to confuse Uk…
Mia Jankowicz
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Amputations in Ukraine are as widespread as in the trenches of World War I due to Russia's heavy use of mines and artillery: report
As many as 50,000 Ukrainians may have lost a limb during Russia's invasion of the country, accordin…
Tom Porter
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A Ukrainian soldier wondered if the Russians advancing on Bakhmut are on drugs: 'Otherwise, how can they go to certain death?'
No evidence has emerged that Russia or the Wagner Group have given its soldiers drugs. But it's not…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Wildfires are setting off hundreds of unexploded bombs on WWI battlefields, endangering firefighters
On the site of former World War I battlefields, a huge wildfire has caused hundreds of unexploded o…
Joshua Zitser
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One chart shows how coronavirus deaths could surpass major wars and disease outbreaks in the US
"If you look at our history, we've been through some terrible ordeals. This is tough. People are su…
Skye Gould,Hilary Brueck
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The John Lewis Penguin Christmas Ad Is Boosting Sales Of A Completely Unrelated Chocolate Bar
The ad "won the first round of the Christmas ad battle" versus competitor retailers earlier this mo…
Lara O'Reilly
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Here's why Conservative MPs now believe Theresa May's Brexit deal will pass
The "Cooper amendment" - an earlier form of which was only narrowly defeated in January - seeks to …
Thomas Colson,Adam Bienkov,Adam Payne
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What If ISIS Offered You A Fabulous Job With Excellent Perks? Would You Take It?
Its open-air theatre of “serving” justice and the strategic consecutive seizures around its illustr…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a fan of a geeky economic theory called MMT: Here's a plain-English guide to what it is and why it's interesting
A dramatic recent example of this is Turkey, whose economy was growing at a robust 7% until last ye…
Jim Edwards,Theron Mohamed
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33. Muzak listening, and Alexa eavesdropping
The surprising history of elevator music, or "Muzak," and how Amazon's Alexa and other smart speake…