YOU WONT BELIEVE: The second world war | Mind Blowing Facts

Britain’s Dambusters airfield became a sand quarry and is now a nature reserve

Woodhall Spa Airfield was constructed on former farmland as a satellite station to RAF Coningsby and opened in February 1942. It was home to several RAF squadrons during the Second World War, including 617 ‘Dambusters’ Squadron, which used the ‘bouncing bomb’ developed by Barnes Wallis to destroy three major dams…

The Times of India · 2h ago

Paul Allen’s research vessel found USS Indianapolis 5,500 metres below the Pacific

Paul Allen's research vessel Petrel was built to monitor Norwegian offshore oil and gas infrastructure, but it went on to find some of the best-known ships lost in the Second World War. According to a Navy News Service report, Petrel's expedition crew located the wreck of USS Indianapolis, a ship…

The Times of India · Oct 6

Green Party’s ‘Zionism is racism’ policy worse than anything under Corbyn, antisemitism tsar warns

Exclusive: Lord Mann claimed the way some of the party’s members were being treated was ‘unprecedented in Westminster since the Second World War’

The Independent UK · Oct 6

Scuba Certification in India: Open Water Course Locations, Training Steps and Timeline

Where to Get Scuba Certified in IndiaThe main certification hubs are Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Goa, and the Tarkarli coast in Maharashtra. Each has a different character. Port Blair and Havelock Island (now officially Swaraj Dweep) in the Andamans host the largest concentration of PADI- and SSI-affiliated dive centres…

Times Life · Sep 25

Imported phosphate for fertiliser is expensive – could this homegrown alternative be a solution?

Since the end of the second world war, adding phosphorus to soils in the form of mineral fertiliser has played a crucial role in increasing and maintaining global food production in response to population growth.

The Conversation · Sep 13

Germany’s far-right AfD hails unprecedented election win: 3 scenarios for what happens next

ANALYSIS: The pro-Russian AfD could become the first far-right party to take control of a regional parliament in Germany since the Second World War. Their victory creates a large political headache for the country’s leaders, report Chris Stevenson and James C Reynolds

The Independent UK · Sep 6

Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic dies aged 84

RATKO Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general whose forces carried out the worst massacre in Europe since the Second World War, has died in prison at age…

The National (Scotland) · Aug 27

Quote of the day by John F. Kennedy: "Change is the law of life. And those who ..."

Two nations, or two people, can face the same shifting circumstances around them and respond in completely different ways. One keeps orienting entirely around what has already happened, treating old grievances, old habits, and familiar arrangements as the fixed points everything else must be measured against. The other accepts that…

The Times of India · Aug 26

Identification tags and bones: How experts are identifying WWII soldiers found in the Danube

Two Wehrmacht soldiers and a WWII motorcycle were recovered from the Danube in Budapest. Now, experts are trying to identify the soldiers using their military identity tags. Euronews spoke to those involved about the painstaking work of putting names to the remains.

Euronews · Aug 21

In 1942, a US soldier wrote 300 love letters to his wife; 80 years later the mysterious box appeared at a USO office

In 2022, a cardboard box containing more than 300 letters written by a US Army soldier during the Second World War arrived unexpectedly at a United Service Organisations (USO) office in New York. The letters belonged to Louis ‘Speedy’ Weber, a young soldier who spent years overseas writing to his…

The Times of India · Aug 20