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A single-engine light aircraft crossed more than seven hundred kilometers of Soviet airspace without being shot down and triggered a military purge that changed the Cold War.
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Fifty meters underground lies a gigantic cavern equipped with aircraft turbines capable of draining entire rivers.
Engineering
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At 472 meters tall, this Norwegian concrete giant surpassed the Empire State Building and crossed two hundred kilometers of ocean to its destination.
History
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How trimming a poplar tree on the Korean border triggered one of the most surreal and overwhelming demonstrations of military force of the Cold War.
History
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Five days before the end of World War II in Europe, US troops, Wehrmacht soldiers, and French prisoners joined forces to repel a Waffen-SS siege.
History
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In 1943, over 35,000 soldiers stormed fog-shrouded Kiska Island, unleashing a bloody fight where the only enemy was panic and friendly fire.
History
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In 1919, the collapse of an industrial tank unleashed a lethal eight-meter wave of thick syrup onto the streets of Massachusetts.