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The Heroes of Trans Australia Airlines Flight 408

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Vogelsang – Where the Soviets Kept the Missiles to Nuke the West

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L’Aérotrain – The Concept Hovertrain that Never Was

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Rome Alone – 11 year old boy boards a plane to Italy without a passport or ticket

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Jesús García – The Man That Jumped onto a Burning Train Loaded With Dynamite, and Saved an Entire Town

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The Forgotten WW1 Structures of Great Britain

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Dotted all over the landscape of the U.K are memorials to Britain's wartime dead. From stone plaques in the centre of villages naming those that lost...
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A Blind Man and a Double Amputee Join Forces to Survive

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Sometimes a story comes along that cannot help but tug at the heartstrings. Any example of great achievement in the face of adversity deserves to...
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Prora – The Nazi Vacation Complex Devised for Hitler’s People

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Adolf Hitler was a monster; that much is clear. However, as leader of the Third Reich he did believe that his subjects were deserving of vacation...
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Enterprising Chinese Farmers Ditch the Fields to Build Giant Transformer Robots

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How’s this for entrepreneurship? In 2007, a father-and-son team from Hunan, China ditched a life-time of farm work to begin creating giant...
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Abandoned – The 1984 Winter Olympic Village

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Unfortunately there are no shortage of Olympic villages around the world, where after the glory of the event they are left to quietly rot into the...
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Book a ‘Room’ at the Homeless Experience Hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden

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What better way to heighten awareness of homelessness, while at the same time raising money for a local charity? Faktum Hotels in Gothenburg,...
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The Bubble Gum Pink Lake Hillier in Australia

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Lake Hillier within Australia's Recherche Archipelago is a magnificent looking destination. The distinctive like bubble-gum pink of its waters draws...
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Barn Find of the Century – 60 Classic Cars worth $20 Million

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Image Credits: © Artcurial The idea of one day discovering something extremely valuable that had been hidden away for years, is enough...
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The Lyubov Orlova – A Russian Ghost Ship Drifting Through International Waters

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It reads like something you might see in an episode of the Twilight Zone. In 2013, the Lyubov Orlova, a Russian Cruise ship weighing over 4,251...
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Kyshtym – The Nuclear Disaster Both the Soviets & the U.S tried to hide

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Everyone knows about Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and, now, Fukushima. But what about Kyshtym? On September 29, 1957, an explosion in a steel...
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Dryden Shirks – A Very Special Santa’s Little Helper

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This Christmas in Tacoma, Washington, Santa had a little helper of a very different kind. With a pink Santa hat perched on her head, a 6 year old...
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Ross A. McGinnis – The Hero Soldier That Jumped On A Grenade To Save His Unit

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Ross A. McGinnis is a hero of the most extraordinary kind. On December 4, 2006 McGinnis sacrificed himself in an act of supreme bravery. He...
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The Gypsum Caves in Western Ukraine – A Jewish Refuge During WW2

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Beneath a large patch of remote farmland in Western Ukraine, lies the Gypsum Giant cave system. Containing over 127,779 meters of explorable...
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20 Vivid Examples of Socialist / Communist Architecture

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Architecture from behind the Iron Curtain is fascinating.  Their often stark brutal presence offering a dark romance indicative of the design from...
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A Man’s floating island in Mexico, (using 100,000 plastic bottles).

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Taking strange architecture to another level is Rishi Sowa’s floating island off the coast of Mexico. The British born artist has created his...
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