The disappearance of Amelia Earhart somewhere over the Pacific Ocean back in 1937 created one of the most compelling and enduring mysteries of the 20th century. The pioneering aviator, along with her navigator Fred Noonan, [...]
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Has the Mystery of Amelia Earhart's Disappearance Been Solved?
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, October 30, 2014
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Notebook From Ill-Fated Antarctic Expedition Discovered in Ice
Posted by Unknown on Friday, October 24, 2014
A notebook belonging to a photographer on the 1911-1912 Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic – famously led by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott – has been discovered frozen in the ice. The century-old book offers a [...]
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Archeologists Uncover "Huge" Structure in Israel that Predates the Pyramids
Posted by Unknown on Friday, September 19, 2014
Archaeology fascinates me. I love the fact that we're still uncovering hidden things from our past, and learning about early civilizations. That's why this story caught my attention when I came across it yesterday. It seems [...]
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Ship Missing for 160 Years Found in the Arctic
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Back in 1845, famed British explorer Sir John Franklin set out to find, and navigate, the Northwest Passage. With him he took two ships, and 129 men, with the hopes of discovering a way to sail across the Arctic from the [...]
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Shackleton 100 Celebrates The Greatest Survival Story of All Time
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, August 21, 2014
100 hundred years ago this month, Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 27 men, set out from Plymouth in the U.K. aboard their ship, the Endurance. Their destination was Antarctica, where Shackleton and his team hoped to become [...]
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