First Blood starred Sylvester Stallone and was loosely inspired by the story of World War II veteran Audie Murphy.

Rejected by the Army in 1942, Harned instead volunteered to drive ambulances in Italy. He later served as a surgeon in the ...

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...

There really is something magical about these 12-5 games. Think about this: In the past 40 years, as of 2024, there had been 56 12-over-5 upsets (including the two in 2024). At the same time, there ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — A major demolition project at the Y-12 National Security Complex is now complete. Crews recently tore down the Alpha-2 building — a massive former uranium enrichment facility dating ...

(WKYT) - In the lead-up to America turning 250 years old, we are looking back every day at “This Day In History.” On this day in 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first Fireside ...

Your device does not support the audio. On March 12, 1938, German troops crossed into Austria, beginning the Anschluss—the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The takeover happened quickly and ...

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This month marks 40 years since the creation of National Girls and Women in Sports Day (Feb. 4), and The Oregonian/OregonLive and longtime Oregon sports writer René Ferrán commemorated the occasion by ...

The weeks before a new World of Warcraft expansion arrives are always a strange limbo. The “pre-patch” drops, moving the game to a new version number — WoW is now on version 12.0, if you can believe ...

Teams dismantle the final walls of the Alpha-2 building at the Y-12 National Security Complex (Credit: US DOE) The final wall of a 325,000-square-foot former uranium enrichment facility has been taken ...