5 Fictional Countries Where the U.S. Army is Trained to Fight
During World War II, the Allies famously tricked Hitler into believing that the First United States Army Group would invade France at Pas-de-Calais. The real invasion, of course, came at Normandy, and the First United States Army Group did not take part—mostly because it didn’t actually exist.
Fake military units aren’t the only thing the [...]
The First Photo From Space
Photo: White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory – via Smithsonian’s
Air & Space
The grainy black and white
photo above was the very first photo from space. It was taken from an
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The Lost Scripts, Part II: Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars
While it’s not unusual for a film to have unused screenplays hiding in a filing cabinet somewhere, the lost scripts of Indiana Jones are a fascinating look at what might have been for everyone’s favorite whip-wielding, fedora-wearing archaeologist. Today let’s discuss Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars.
The Story Behind the Story
After the success of [...]
