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Beginning in 1960, two teachers and their pupils at Kettering Grammar School tracked Soviet spacecraft using a war-surplus radio receiver. In 1966, the unusual orbits of Kosmos 112 and later satellites allowed them to pinpoint a secret launch site at Plesetsk, roughly 800 kilometres north of Moscow—17 years before the Soviet Union officially acknowledged the cosmodrome existed.
3+ hour, 55+ min ago (482+ words) A school satellite-tracking group used surplus radio equipment and intersecting orbital ground tracks to place the Soviet Union’s hidden Plesetsk launch site on the public map....
The torch of the Statue of Liberty has been closed to the public since 1916, when German saboteurs blew up a munitions depot nearby and shrapnel tore into the statue's arm — in the 110 years since, no visitor has been allowed back up the ladder
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (31+ words) A century-old act of sabotage still keeps visitors from reaching the Statue of Liberty's highest point, a restriction so obscure that most Americans don't know it exists....
Rescue teams in Nepal are digging for people missing after floods and mudslides, Al Jazeera English reports, with the same saturated, unstable ground that buried them now slowing crews sent to reach them
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (505+ words) The same waterlogged earth that entombed victims now impedes the rescuers trying to reach them, turning a search for the missing into a race against collapsing terrain. By Deep Field · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit The…...
Workers renovating a centuries-old French manor broke into a wall and found 239 gold coins hidden inside — minted under Louis XIII and Louis XIV, the forgotten hoard had been sitting there for generations and eventually sold for more than €1 million
1+ week, 1+ day ago (261+ words) One of the stonemasons swung at an interior wall in Brittany and hit something that rattled instead of cracking....
Venice is standing on millions of tree trunks hammered upright into the lagoon mud a thousand years ago, and they never rotted — buried in oxygen-starved silt, the wood slowly turned to something closer to stone, which is why the city is still there.
3+ week, 5+ day ago (26+ words) By the time the current Basilica di San Marco went up in the eleventh century, the builders working the Venetian lagoon already knew something that took...