In 1982 a California man strapped weather balloons to a lawn chair and ended up 16,000 feet in the air.
By Adam Azra'el
Photo: Andreas Weiland
For as long as men have existed, they have dreamed of flying. Images of…
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By Adam Azra'el
Photo: Andreas Weiland
For as long as men have existed, they have dreamed of flying. Images of…
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By Adam Azra'el
Of all the terrifying and deadly technology utilized by the Germans during both World Wars, perhaps none was…
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By Adam Azra'el
Photo: Château de Breteuil / CC BY-SA (via Wikimedia Commons)
Ah, France....birthplace of…
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By Adam Azra'el
Photo courtesy of the Imperial War Museum
World War II history is filled with the exploits of brave men and…
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By Adam Azra'el
Photo: Marc Szeglat
Buckle up, folks, because we're going for a RIDE today. History is kind of a fickle…
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By Adam Azra'el
Photo by John Torcasio
Ah, the 90s....what a decade. Phones got smaller and then bigger and then smaller and then bigger,…
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By Adam Azra'el
First Lieutenant John R. Fox, U.S. Army
It's safe to say that World War II…
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By Adam Azra'el
Photo by Dan Meyers
In 1957, the world really didn't know all that much about nuclear bombs. The United States,…
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By Adam Azra'el
Photo by Jamie Morrison
In the early 1600s, a little-known glacier called Sweden suddenly (and very violently) announced…
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By Adam Azra'el
(Photo: Minnesota Historical Society)
The American Civil War was a brutal, bloody conflict between the agrarian, slave-owning…
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By Adam Azra'el
(Photo by Emiliano Bar)
Michel Vaujour was a man who had things to do. Not nice things, maybe, but certainly things which were impeded by the fact…
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