




Features May 1, 2011
Features May 1, 2011
The loss of the HMAS Sydney (II), pride of the Australian navy, has long been a source of pain and bewilderment. In waters off Western Australia in late 1941, following a successful tour in the Mediterranean, the Sydney encountered a ship claiming to be a Dutch freighter—actually the HSK Kormoran, a German raider that had menaced merchant ships for months.
Features May 1, 2011
Years after the end of the world's greatest conflict, new research reveals the true nature and extent of its impact
Features May 1, 2011
Features May 1, 2011
On June 15, 1944, a massive U.S. invasion fleet stormed the beaches of Saipan, the largest of the Mariana Islands.
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Why Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers in the Alps built their villages on stilts
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On the shores of a lake in Guatemala, the Itzá people defied the Spanish for nearly 200 years
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A surreal style of painting endured for 4,000 years in the canyonlands of West Texas
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The Yellow River brought both prosperity and calamity to China’s dazzling medieval capital By Ling Xin