Had London simply taken a step back and realized the Germans were disinterested in deploying the Tirpitz from its Norwegian ...
The Cold Spring Village Board on Monday (March 3) adopted a report by two consultants detailing concerns with the Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Hudson Highlands Fjord ...
In the late autumn of 1941 a select group of British naval men, volunteers for a mission of danger and hardship, proceeded to a lonely country house and began a strange program of training.
Many people look at the Middle Ages through romantic eyes. They think about “armoured knights on lumbering steeds”, beautiful damsels in pointy hats, dragons, chivalry, and courtly love.
Alex Wild, 35, has been a park ranger for 15 years, working seasonal National Park Service positions for five of the last six years. Then, in 2024, Wild landed his dream job as an interpretive ...
It wasn’t just dogs, bears, and elephants that served in the military—pigs played their part too! Tirpitz was a pig rescued by the British navy during World War I. He was named after Admiral Alfred ...
The unstable slopes reflect how the ice sheet eroded the deep fjords when it was larger. Now that the ice has melted, nothing buttresses the near-vertical valley walls, and so, they collapse.
The Plymouth-based frigate spent two weeks in the fjords hunting Norwegian and Dutch submarines – firstly to test their trainee captains as they attempt to qualify for front-line command but also to ...
The fjord-like landscape of Musandam gives it the title the “Norway of the Middle East” – of course, without snow and the extremely cold temperature of Norway. Musandam’s winter temperatures only ...