On August 16, 1942, US Navy blimp L-8 lifted off from Treasure Island on an anti-submarine patrol after reports of Japanese activity off the California coast. The crew radioed once, reporting an oil ...
Marie West, a World War II veteran and longtime Monument resident, died Jan. 25, less than three weeks shy of what would have been her 103rd birthday, according to her family. West passed away ...
This supercharged 1963 Avanti R2, once personally owned by designer Raymond Loewy, is on display at the L.A. museum now.
These libraries, museums and monuments are not just for school trips ...
Picture a steel giant rising from the Carolina flatlands, its massive frame stretching nearly a thousand feet across the ...
The dreary, punishing experience of air travel creates its own backlash. Airlines and their various torture devices are the punchline of countless jokes. This creates a prime opportunity for airships ...
Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...
"Cap Lives" came out at a time when grittier Captain America comics were the norm, but it was a classic in the making.
In the spring of 1943, the newly commissioned Capt. Glenn Miller was stationed in New Haven, Conn., where he was assembling what would become his last great band, the Army Air Forces Training Command ...
New York politicians defiantly raised a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument amid a boisterous, cheering crowd.
The operator of roughly 180 Eddie Bauer stores across the U.S. and Canada has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, blaming declining sales and a litany of other industry headwinds.