German police arrested 96-year-old Irmgard Furchner after she fled in a taxi prior to her scheduled trial
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World War II’s Only Canine POW Survived Shipwrecks, Crocodile Attacks, and Japanese Prison Camps
Judy the English pointer received Britain’s Dickin Medal for animals after gaining renown as one of the war’s most heroic sidekicks.
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The Slowest Heist in History: The Hijacking of Alexander the Great’s Body
Ptolemy — the governor of Egypt — hatched an audacious plan of stealing the gold-plated sarcophagus right out from under his archrival
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‘The Savagery of Guerrilla Warfare’—Readers’ Letters Weigh in on Crazy Military Battle
Readers sound off about the Lee-Enfield rifle, Robert Rogers’ Rangers, the Battles of Cedar Creek and Schmidt, U-853, Charles ‘The Hammer’ Martel and Curtis LeMay in our November ’21 issue
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Top 8 Civil War Landmarks to Check Out in Historic Baltimore
Learn more about Baltimore’s Civil War past, when Southern sympathizers attacked Union troops in April 1861—the war’s first blood drawn in action
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See Weapons of War Designed by Leonardo Da Vinci
History’s ultimate polymath, Leonardo da Vinci, created both high art and fantastic weaponry
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In God We Trust: Did George B. McClellan Suffer from a Messianic Complex?
George B. McClellan is accused of character defects and mental illness for his religious beliefs. But those views were not unique.
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INTERVIEW: Gen. David Petraeus / The Most Important Lesson I Learned
David Petraeus speaks with Vietnam magazine on the lessons of the war and their impact on the senior military leadership.
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How Harlem Hellfighter James Reese Europe Became a Ragtime Legend
“He was our benefactor and inspiration,” Eubie Blake, the jazz great, once said of James Reese Europe, who wielded a baton, not a rifle, for much of World War I.
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The Dancing Plague of 1518: History’s Oddest Epidemic
That time the city of Strasbourg nearly danced itself to death