Driven by the increasing range and accuracy of firearms, camouflage designers have been researching and exploiting optical illusions since World War I and German artist Simon Menner proves that our eyes can often deceive us. Check out the photo montage below and see if you can spot the sniper hidden in each of the landscapes.
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Nazi SS commander found living peacefully in modest Minnesota suburb
The Associated Press is reporting today that a top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children, lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in a modest house in northeast Minneapolis, in an area with a significant Ukrainian population, since…
The legend of the Lost Letter
“Unbreakable” WWII secret message attached to carrier pigeon skeletal leg may have been broken
Remember the top secret World War II code we reported on earlier – the encrypted code that was found in a capsule attached to a carrier pigeon’s skeletal leg in a chimney? The top-secret coded message that British intelligence said could never be cracked without the proper code book? As it turns out, they may…
Can you crack the secret encrypted WWII message found attached to the leg of carrier pigeon skeleton
Top British codebreakers are admitting that the recently found World War II message, found attached to the skeleton of a carrier pigeon, may never be cracked. Historians believe the bird was dispatched from Nazi-occupied France on June 6 1944, during the D-Day invasions. It is possible that its destination was the top secret Bletchley Park…
Expert says junk military ordnance in the Gulf of Mexico poses threat to shipping channels
Oceanographers at Texas A&M University have warned that the millions of pounds of unexploded bombs scattered throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, pose serious threats to the shipping lanes that run through those regions. Discarded military ordnance, including one thousand pound bombs the size of file cabinets and chemical weapons…
The Irish vs. the French
The rise of J.P. Morgan. How Civil War corruption birthed a big business dynasty.
J.P. Morgan, the man synonymous with big business, developed a name early on as a ruthless, shrewd businessman –traits which all too often are required to run a successful business. What many do not know, is that the at an early age, the backbone of the successful business was formed off a degenerate trade made…