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Viva Las Vegas, baby : At Gunship Helicopters we offer: The only place in the world you can shoot full-auto belt fed from a helicopter as a ...

Two items of note here.  First up,  Baltic shipwreck champagne was destined for Tsar Alexander II : Meticulous research into the bottles of ...

This is cool: After a secret trip across the English Channel, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on English soil for the first time since it was m...

Big Country is doing a series of Lee-Enfield restorations which are well worth your time if you (like me) love old Mil-Surp bolties. By acc...

Wow : A remotely operated vehicle exploration of the wreck of the USS Yorktown, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier sunk in the Battle of Midway, h...

Lots of media huffing and puffing, but not much rain (especially when compared with Debbie last month) and not too bad for wind.  Power stay...

Now this is cool : Newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the AD79 eruption of...

These guys are really good.  This is great fun.  I particularly like the Oscar Peterson version, and the Pete Townsend (Teenage Wasteland) o...

It's not just carbonized scrolls , there is a whole set of wooden items that have been uncovered at Herculaneum, the Roman city which, w...

A couple months ago I posted about efforts to read the carbonized scrolls excavated from Herculaneum.  This is an update on that - progress ...

This is cool.

Eighty-seven years after the Titanic slipped below the waves, the horn blew again.  This is the story of how that happened.   The crowd reac...

This isn't quite the 21st Century I was promised, but this sounds like a very interesting idea : Assuming the weather and engineering g...

Secure comms are an issue for any emergency/disaster/Zombie-apocalypse scenario.  This looks like a pretty nifty solution for that problem.

There are plans to build a GPS and data network, and it no workee (very well) without a reference time.  The Moon doesn't have that.  Ye...

The Costco parking lot got a pretty sweet visitor. It looks like a Willys MD, otherwise known as the M38A1 Truck, although repainted in Flor...

It seems that this is a thing, and has been for a couple decades : Guedelon Castle in Burgundy, France, is built using only techniques and m...

The Queen Of The World found this.  It explains the different types of people who work on what is said to be the most dangerous workplace in...

We picked up a flintlock pistol for my pirate costume at Party City, which meant that it was cheap and plastic.  The Queen Of The World thou...

This is an old story - I posted it ten years or so ago - but I hadn't known that the pilot of the SR-71 that requested a speed check fr...