1+ week, 2+ day ago   (311+ words) Review: A Book as Big as the War 1942: Crux of War, Jonathan Parshall, Oxford University Press, 1,280 pp., $45, June 2026 As Winston Churchill said after British church bells rang for the first time after victory at El Alamein in November 1942, “This is…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (640+ words) You've heard of Sports Personality of the Year - and Shed, Horse and even Rear of the Year. Now get ready for something altogether more niche: Cemetery of the Year. In a bid to keep up with more mainstream professions, Britain's…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (99+ words) Want your own hosted, self-optimizing clone of this — or any OpenServe site? Open Development for enterprise → © OpenServe Holdings LLC Where do you stand? What each side asserts, disputes — or leaves out entirely. Whose framing of this story rings truest to…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (359+ words) As recently as the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, maps and deeds were still being produced that exist in no digital form at all, and in some countries paper archiving remains the norm even today. Together, these scattered archives form a network of invaluable…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (114+ words) Know the tools Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Tori Brannan with Alaska GLOBE shows a group of Effie Kokrine Charter School students how to use a tool used to view insects and water samples during a salmon science and culture expo on…...

4+ day, 6+ min ago   (18+ words) Sharjah's 'Coastal Fortified Network of South Eastern Arabia' added to UNESCO's Tentative List for World Heritage وكالة وام...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (52+ words) Upgrading Army PME to Close the Adaptation Gap Maj. Dalton T. Fuss, US Army Figure. Russian Defensive System by 1905 (Figure from Nicholas Murray, The Rocky Road to the Great War: The Evolution of Trench Warfare to 1914) Note: Set up your default…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (127+ words) Technological innovation in warfare fuels American strength. The American Civil War introduced numerous innovations in warfare, including tethered gas balloons for aerial reconnaissance as well as ironclad gunboats. Throughout the history of our country, perhaps no weapon was more impactful…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (716+ words) People walk through monsoon rain in downtown Flagstaff in mid-August. Abel Velasquez works to clear a storm drain of debris on Birch Avenue outside the downtown Flagstaff public library in August after hail ripped leaves and branches off trees. As…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (159+ words) This study by Christian Stachelbeck examines the German Army as a learning organization from 1888 to 1926, focusing on the acquisition and application of tactical knowledge during and after World War I. It presents a nuanced view of military learning processes, challenging prior…...