The Titanic is one of the most famous shipwrecks on the seafloor, but for decades following the 1912 disaster, its debris remained undetected. It took a secret Cold War Navy mission to find two unrelated vessels to finally pinpoint the doomed ship's location.
Now, the history of the Titanic's discovery is the subject of “Titanic: The Untold Story," a new exhibit at the National Geographic Museum in Washington D.C. In 1985, U.S. Navy commander and National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Robert Ballard was commissioned by the Navy to use a submersible to find the wreckage of two nuclear submarines. The USS Thresher and the USS Scorpion both went down in the North Atlantic Ocean during the Cold War, and the U.S. government wanted to know why the ships sank, as well as what impact their nuclear reactors had on the environment.
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Texas firefighter arrested for allegedly having multiple wives
Good Morning America KARMA ALLEN,Good Morning America 5 hours ago
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"She had started receiving phone calls from other females, basically indicating that they were married to the same individual she had just gotten married to," Harris County Constable Mark Herman told local reporters Monday. LINK
Severed rattlesnake head bites man, delivers highly dangerous dose of venom
GEOBEATS Jun 6th 2018 7:53PM
<snip> The man reportedly lost his vision and began to have seizures. He was rushed to the hospital where he received 26 doses of anti-venom.
Doctors did not initially think he would survive, but his condition has since stabilized. LINK
The Scandinavian trend is about to be highlighted in a new book by Finnish writer Miska Rantanen: Päntsdrunk: The Finnish Art of Drinking At Home. Alone. In Your Underwear. BBC III reports on the trend, and the U.K. seems totally on board.
In the book, Miska explains how Finns started drinking in their underwear as a way of coping with the country’s long, dark winters (see above) – when no one could be bothered to wear multiple layers to trek out and meet their friends. So they decided to stay at home—in one layer – and drink in the warmth instead.
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