Content tagged with “war” under “The Interesting List”

“ A woman was troubled by the subtle tone of Wikipedia articles about certain aspects of Nazi history. She embarked on an epic and controversial editing spree. ”

“ The relics of the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo still stand. Some of them were used during combat and saw the horrors of war crimes. ”

“ In 1945, there was an hours-long Japanese ‘attack’ on Los Angeles that was very likely the result of wild imaginations and nervous trigger fingers. ”

“ There’s a sunken WWII ship in shallow water off the coast of England. It contains over 6,000 tons of explosives. If it detonated, a tsunami would travel down the Thames. ”

“ The first ‘ethical hacker’ might have been a Frenchman who sabotaged the Nazi punch card system for storing data on citizens, thus preventing them from querying for Jews. ”

“ In the 1860s, several nations went to war over bat poop. ”

“ Due to several specific circumstances, up until this week, there was still a single person receiving a pension from the Civil War. ”

“ War once closed the Suez Canal for eight years. Unfortunately, there were about a dozen ships transiting the canal when this happened. ”

“ The U.S. military uses Internet Relay Chat a lot, perhaps most importantly to run tactical operations in real-time. IRC is a very old – but still quite popular – technology, dating to 1988. ”