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How a ‘Cheap and Tiny’ Submarine ‘Sank’ a $4,500,000,000 Nuclear Navy Aircraft Carrier

In 2015, the French Navy’s compact Rubis-class SSN Saphir reportedly penetrated USS Theodore Roosevelt’s (an aircraft carrier built for $4,500,000,000) defensive screen during COMPTUEX and scored ...

London bridge is falling down - so Boat Race relocates

Next year's Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge will take place outside London for the first time since World War Two - because a bridge that passes over the usual course is close to collapsing.
The Press of Atlantic City

Fun amid the fight: Dragon boat race brings cancer survivors, loved ones together

MAYS LANDING — Doctors in colorful tutus and paddlers with pink breast cancer awareness ribbons painted on their cheeks stood along Lake Lenape holding carnations while Rachel Hahn, 40, Voorhees, read ...

Erie Canal's 200th: Historians on impacts from Fort Plain to Schenectady

Schenectady and New York state are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal this month. On Tuesday, Oct. 14, a ...

You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor

A man in a red knit cap yanked as hard as he could. “That’s just—my ankle—breaking!” Cam yelped. No one suggested slicing the ...
nerdist

CRITICAL ROLE CAMPAIGN 4: Every New Character & Their Actor

Critical Role‘s Campaign 4 is officially here. The fourth core chapter of the beloved TTRPG actual play series has arrived, and this time, it’s helmed by Brennan Lee Mulligan—yes, for the first time ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Rock Island Grand Prix event-by-event history (long version)

First, chief mechanic Kevin Williams issued a motivating, final-race message to longtime friend Mike Welsh. Then, Wisconsin rival Corey Reeves offered up a stiff challenge to the Davenport driver in ...