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    History In 1942 Los Angeles fired 1,440 anti-aircraft rounds at nothing Ellsworth Toohey
  • Kőbánya cellar system — VinceB / CC BY-SA 3.0 (via Wikipedia)
    History A 20-mile maze under Budapest hid a secret WWII aircraft engine plant Ellsworth Toohey
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    History Japan's greatest sword was surrendered to a US sergeant in 1946. Nobody knows where it is. Ellsworth Toohey
  • Navy blimp L-8 deflated after landing in Daly City, 1942
    aviation A Navy blimp landed in San Francisco with its engines running and its crew gone Ellsworth Toohey
  • Chichijima incident memorial
    History Japanese officers cannibalized four American POWs on a Pacific island in 1944 Ellsworth Toohey
  • John Frum gathering area in Vanuatu
    religion A cargo cult in Vanuatu has been waiting for an American named John Frum since the 1930s Ellsworth Toohey
  • Jack Churchill after the war
    History The WWII commando who fought with a broadsword, longbow, and bagpipes Ellsworth Toohey
  • By U.S. Army Center Of Military History - http://www.history.com/news/hungry-history/d-day-rations-how-chocolate-helped-win-the-war, Public Domain, Link
    History The Army told Hershey to make a chocolate bar that tasted bad Ellsworth Toohey
  • Photo: Mark Anthony Ray / Shutterstock
    History Opening 80-year-Old WWII US Army C-Ration can with original chocolate, coffee, biscuits, and jam inside Popkin
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    History Japan's "Rabbit Island" used to be a secret poison gas factory, now it's overrun with adorable bunnies Ellsworth Toohey
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    art Nazi-looted masterpiece found hanging in Argentinian home listing Ellsworth Toohey
  • History Documentary uncovers forgotten 1946 football game months after Nagasaki bombing Ellsworth Toohey
  • Cover detail from Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941)
    art Explore the extraordinary legacy of Nazi-slugging comic book pioneer Jack Kirby Mark Frauenfelder
  • Panorama of Atomic Bomb Destruction Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum Japan Asia Genbaku Dome. (Dennis MacDonald / Shutterstock.com)
    Science "My one great mistake": Einstein's atomic bomb letter comes to auction, expected to fetch $150,000 Ellsworth Toohey
  • History Documentary reveals untold story of 12 American POWs killed in Hiroshima bombing Mark Frauenfelder
  • Battle Royale publicity still
    Entertainment "Adults cannot be trusted": The brutal 1999 Japanese movie that influenced "Squid Game" Ellsworth Toohey
  • Cages with typhus-carrying lice strapped onto a person's thigh. (Wikipedia)
    World War II How Polish professors let infected lice feed on them to avoid concentration camps in WWII Ellsworth Toohey
  • Fighter pilots at Aleutian party enjoying
    World War II How WWII sailors made torpedo juice from weapon fuel Ellsworth Toohey
  • books Artist Saul Steinberg's 1945 book "All in Line" gets a lavish new re-publication Ruben Bolling
  • The original Code Talkers sworn in. Photo: U.S. National Archives & Records (public domain)
    encryption Navajo Code Talker John Kinsel Sr dead at 107 Rob Beschizza
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