MMXXVI VOL21 No.953

Jamestown was founded 419 years ago

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Mata Hari’s big mistake

She was an exotic dancer, the most solicited courtesan of Paris, a spy, a double agent and after being executed while blowing a kiss to the firing squad, a pop culture icon who still endures

Editor's picks

It travels from north to south between the polar circles. It has only been spotted once by the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour, during the STS-88 mission in 1998

The Buzzer UVB-76
War

Known as "the buzzer", it is a Soviet-era radio station that continuously broadcasts indecipherable beeps and buzzes over shortwave. First detected in 1980, it remains operational today and its purposes are still unknown

Camp Century, an abandoned Arctic military base in Greenland

Operative between 1959 and 1967, the base, built in tunnels under the ice, was powered by the world's first mobile nuclear reactor. To the public eye, it was advertised as a scientific research station. Undercover, it was a missile launching base. Here are the reasons for its abandonment in 1967

War occultism

We might think these are practices belonging to bygone times but right now, there are a dozen occultists hexing each other in any war worldwide

Bringing beer to friends in the Vietnam War
War

John Chickie Donohue's 1967 journey to bring beer from New York to his friends deployed in the Vietnam War. The route analyzed in detail with a map, framed in its historical context. Illustrated with real images of the epic journey

Pearl Harbor attack; questions and main conspiracy theories
War

The unknowns that give fuel to the main conspiracy theories surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack. Tactical success versus strategic error. why did Japan decide to attack the United States? Why did the Japanese leave the fuel storage tanks intact? Was it an agreed attack? Did the U.S. administration allow the attack to take place in order to enter World War II? Did the British conceal information?

Black Sheep Squadron, 1943-1944

On September 16, 1943, the Black Sheep Squadron began its reign of terror over Japanese pilots, shooting down 11 Zeros in the Solomon Islands. Their leader, Greg "Pappy" Boyington, scored five of those victories and from that fateful day for the Rising Sun, he continued adding kills almost daily

The last flight of the Lady Be Good

In 1958, a mysterious World War II bomber was discovered in the middle of the Sahara, perfectly preserved as if it had suddenly been transported through time from the 1940s and dropped onto the desert dunes 15 years later. This is the story of the aircraft and the tragic fate that befell its crew

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A guide to getting started in classic leather flight jackets. Type A-1, A-2, M422a, G1, Sherlings, B-3, ANJ-4, B-6 and D-1

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