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USS Tripoli struck an Iraqi LUGM contact mine in the Persian Gulf on the morning of 18 February 1991, taking a 25-by-25-foot hole in...
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USS Tripoli struck an Iraqi LUGM contact mine in the Persian Gulf on the morning of 18 February 1991, taking a 25-by-25-foot hole in...
Surface pressure on Venus runs about ninety times Earth's, equivalent to diving three thousand feet into the ocean, at an average surface temperature of...
Five Montana-class battleships were authorized in 1940: bigger than the Iowas, with twelve 16-inch guns and the only American armor designed to stop its...
USS Saratoga cost $209.7 million, displaced 81,101 tons and carried up to 100 aircraft before fighting in Vietnam and Desert Storm.
USS Alabama cost about $80 million, displaced roughly 45,000 tons, carried nine 16-inch guns and earned nine World War II battle stars.
USS Texas entered service in 1914 with ten 14-inch guns, 28,100 horsepower and a 27,000-ton displacement. After fighting in both world wars and spending...
Built for $52.8 million, USS South Dakota displaced 44,519 tons at full load and fired a 24,300-pound armor-piercing broadside. “Battleship X” survived Santa Cruz...
USS Massachusetts cost about $80 million, displaced 44,519 tons at full combat load and carried nine 16-inch guns able to throw a 24,300-pound armor-piercing...
The famous line about volunteering to die and enduring pain appears in Caesar’s Gallic War, though he places it in a Gallic leader’s speech....
The famous warning that money cannot create happiness is likely misattributed to Benjamin Franklin. Its idea still fits his life: Franklin built colonial America’s...