Slow-Mo GoPro Video Of Cliff Jump Gone Wrong Is Nothing Short Of Insane
Base jumping doesn't always work out for the best.Like most extreme sports, there's an incalculable amount of ways things can go wrong.Also like most extreme sports, base jumpers love to video their...
View ArticleWhy The Air Force Academy Uses Cadets To Spy On Each Other
Earlier this week, the Air Force Academy located in Colorado Springs responded to a Gazette report about the academy's use of cadet informants instructed to deceive comrades, professors, and...
View ArticleFrance Is Sending Troops Into The Central African Republic
PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande said a French-led military operation to protect civilians in the Central African Republic would be launched immediately following authorization from the...
View ArticleA US Navy Submarine Just Launched A Drone .... From Underwater
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory successfully launched a drone from a submerged submarine.This picture is a real composite of a time-lapse photo taken during the launch, of this all-electric, fuel...
View ArticleFormer South African President Nelson Mandela Has Died At The Age Of 95
Nelson Mandela has died today at the age of 95, according to South African President Jacob Zuma. His death marks the final chapter in a life that changed South Africa forever.The former South African...
View ArticleHere's The Infamous 1962 Document Committing Mandela To Prison
Former South African president Nelson Mandela died today at the age of 95.Mandela led an incredible life, which included a 27-year incarceration.This is the document that committed Mandela to prison on...
View ArticleThe Secret Memo That Led To The James Bond Movies
A very interesting piece of memorabilia showed up in The Daily Mail today.It's the secret memo that eventually led to the James Bond movies.A lot of people forget this, but Bond creator, Ian Fleming,...
View ArticleAmerica's Safest City Is Only 300 Feet From One Of The Most Violent Cities In...
El Paso, Texas was the safest city in the U.S. in 2010.Juarez, Mexico, across the Rio Grande river, has the highest murder rate in the world.This incredible division emerged thanks to a confluence of...
View ArticleAl Qaeda-Linked Group Claims Responsibility Yemen Ministry Attack That Killed...
SANAA (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack on Yemen's defense ministry that killed at least 52 people, the country's worst militant assault in 18...
View ArticleThis Mind-Boggling Profile Of Osama Bin Laden Came Out Exactly 20 Years Ago...
This article from Dec. 6, 1993, by Robert Fisk of The Independent, titled, "Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace," is stunning to consider 20 years later.Osama bin Laden, fresh off...
View ArticleAn Aide Of Kim Jong-un's Uncle Could Be North Korea's Most Serious Defection...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea could be facing its most serious defection in 15 years as South Korean media said on Friday that a man who managed funds for the ousted uncle of leader Kim Jong Un had...
View ArticlePowerful Photo Of Elderly Woman Perfectly Sums Up The Defiance And Intensity...
Vasily Fedosenko of Reuters took this photo of a woman holding religious items and pointing her finger at a seemingly smug Interior Ministry official during a rally to support EU integration in Kiev,...
View ArticleThese Yugoslavian Monuments Look Like Relics From An Alien Civilization
The brutalist war memorials found throughout the former Yugoslavia were weird enough when they were built in the 1960s and 70s. Today, separated by the end of an architectural movement and the...
View ArticleA Timeline Of Nelson Mandela's Prolific Life And Leadership
"My Fellow South Africans,Our beloved Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding President of our democratic nation has departed.He passed on peacefully in the company of his family around 20h50 (8:50...
View ArticleMadiba's Wisdom: 20 Timeless Quotes From Nelson Mandela
In part, the power of an idea comes from the eloquence with which it expressed. Few managed it with the class of Nelson Mandela, from pithy observations such as “Where you stand depends on where you...
View Article‘Satan Himself Lives In San Pedro’: Scary Pictures Of The Most Violent City...
"Satan himself lives here in San Pedro," a mortician from the second largest city in Honduras told The Guardian. "People here kill people like they're nothing more than chickens."With a murder rate of...
View ArticleMarine Band Absolutely Crushes Macklemore's 'Thriftshop' In Epic Birthday...
United States Marines from the Third Marine Aircraft Wing Band sang their version of Macklemore and Lewis’s "Thriftshop" and “Can’t Hold Us" at the 2013 USMC birthday ball.They rapped lyrics like ,"I...
View ArticleThe Crazy Story Of A Marine Locked In Hand-To-Hand Combat As The Taliban...
I've seen this story making its rounds again on military networks in social media and it's definitely worth reading.On June 17, 2010, Then-Cpl. Clifford Wooldridge was with his Marines in a humvee when...
View ArticleReport: US Considered Spending $4 Billion To Get Afghan Men Married
We've all heard a fair share of terrible ideas coming out of the Afghan war, but the extent of failed Information Operations (IO) — targeted military propaganda — is mind-boggling.Tom Vanderbrooks of...
View ArticleThe US Just Used Santa Claus To Take A Potshot At China
Santa's fighter jet escort this year has drawn controversy, but a senior Pentagon official recently spelled out exactly why Kris Kringle needed defense: China.While traveling with Secretary Chuck...
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