from a military storehouse to a prison for captured French and Spanish sailors during the Napoleonic Wars. The building's chestnut beams still bear the etched names and messages of these prisoners, ...
The U.S. Navy is the military branch believed to have the highest rate of asbestos use, with asbestos being utilized on virtually every ship for most of the 20th century. If you worked on any of the ...
Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland, was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union. As ice began to crush the site, the US abandoned the ...
In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found Camp Century, a Cold War U.S. military base while attempting to map the ice sheet. “We were looking for the bed of the ice and ou ...