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In 1956, the pride of Italy's passenger liner fleet, the Andrea Doria, set sail from Genoa bound for America. More than 3,500 miles away, the liner...

In 1718, the infamous pirate Blackbeard and his flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, wreaked havoc raiding British supply routes to and from their A...

A month after the D-Day Invasion, when the Allies believed all was safe off the beaches of Normandy, the Minesweeper YMS-304 was blasted out of the...

The Scapa Flow is one of Great Britain's most historic stretches of water. Located within the Orkney Islands, Scotland, this sheltered open lagoon ...

On December 11, 1941, Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States. Among his stated reasons was that "[Roosevelt] ordered the German ships Phryg...

Railroad car ferries were thought to be some of the safest vessels on the Great Lakes, built to withstand ice and waves year round. But on October ...

Lake Superior is home to the \Witch of November\ and some of the worst storms a sailor will ever see. On the night of November 10, 1975, the 29-man...

In the American Southwest, there is no more puzzling mystery than the magnificent stone cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde. Why did the Anasazi Indians ...

Dogfights between early jetfighters like the F-80 and F-84 before the arrival of the F-86 and MiG-15 in the skies of Korea.

Tobacco wealth helped make planters like Washington and Jefferson the leaders of a new nation, but it also brought slavery to American shores. The ...

The maximum-security federal penitentiary Alcatraz sits on 12 acres in the middle of San Francisco Bay and was conceived by J. Edgar Hoover to hous...

The many shallow rivers, canals and waterways of Vietnam demanded the development of a new kind of small, mobile and deadly craft.

The southern-most U.S. city, Key West, Florida, is a picture-postcard tropical playground. But what travel agents won't tell you is about the haunt...

A BLOODY GUNFIGHT. A JILTED LOVER WITH MURDER ON HIS MIND. A BAWDY DANCE HALL OVERRUN WITH SPIRITS FROM THE PAST. THESE ARE THE SPECTRAL SNAPSHOTS ...

One aircraft in the U.S. arsenal best typifies the will to win. Using the latest and most sophisticated computerized technology, the F-18 Hornet is...

Designed in the late 1950s by aeronautical genius Kelly Johnson at the mysterious Skunkworks, the SR-71 Blackbird was the world's first stealthy ai...

During the Vietnam War, a daring group of Army Green Berets known as SOG launches highly classified missions into neighboring countries Laos and Ca...

Adolf Hitler dreamt of creating a master race, but achieved a Holocaust--the murder of millions of Jews and those deemed physical or mental defects...

Not so long ago, civilization learned that it was no match for just a few degrees drop in temperature. Scientists call it the Little Ice Age--but i...

In the 1930s, Japanese designers created a range of warplanes, culminating in the legendary Ki-43 "Oscar" and the A6M "Zero". As the war turned aga...

A Siberian peasant rises to power in Czarist Russia, becomes the close confidante and reputed lover of Empress Alexandra, scandalizes the country w...

They swept down from the north to plunder the wealth of Europe, and for 300 years, no one was safe from their brutal attacks. But they also built c...

They were cities of sin destroyed by God's wrath. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah had long been viewed as a cautionary tale of the evils of sin or ...

The target of a daring assassination plot by members of his military, Hitler nearly died at Wolf's Lair, his main wartime headquarters. It was one ...