Owen Wagensteen came up with a simple but effective apparatus that made abdominal surgery a less deadly proposition.
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Jesse James’ Greatest Failure
When “Minnesota nice” beat the country’s most notorious gang.
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Young Jesse James As a Guerrilla
Before he was an infamous outlaw, James and Frank James were implicated in a massacre of Union soldiers.
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Paul Garber: Smithsonian Historian, Kite Flyer
During World War II, Navy commander Paul E. Garber displays a Mark I kite […]
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Britain’s Greatest General: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
The colorful life of John Churchill, the first duke of Marlborough, examined.
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Book Review: ‘The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis’
British historian Stephen P. Kershaw takes on the Greeks.
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Nazis Built an Escape-Proof Castle. Allied POWs Got Out More Than 30 Times.
Author Ben Macintyre tackles the almost mythic status of Colditz POWs in his latest work.
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Combat Condoms and Rubber Fins: The Underwater Demolition Teams of WWII
An interview with journalist Andrew Dubbins on the creation of the UDTs and the evolution of the SEALs.
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The WWI Pistol That ‘Played’ Han Solo’s Blaster Just Sold for How Much?!
Referred to in Star Wars as a BlasTech DL-44 Heavy Blaster, this particular “plasma weapon” was designed around an authentic Mauser C96.