Shipwreck discovered intact in Lake Michigan, Roman swords uncovered in an Israeli cave, girl found buried with 180 animal bones in Kazakhstan.Eerily Intact Shipwreck From 1881 Discovered At The Bottom Of Lake Michigan Tamara Thomsen/State Historical Society of Wisconsin via APBuilt in New York in 1867, the Trinidad carried grain throughout the Great Lakes region until May 11, 1881, when a leak caused it to sink off the coast of Wisconsin. Read More...
The diary also lists 10 other locations across Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic where Nazis hid their loot.Śląski Pomost QuedlinburgThe 75-year-old diary belonged to an SS officer named Egon Ollenhauer.
The hunt continues for a massive stash of gold treasure that belonged to the Nazis. A newly-discovered diary that belonged to an SS officer points to one of the possible hidden locations of the Nazi gold: an old castle in Poland. Read More...
What happened on this day in history: India gains its independence from the United Kingdom, the first day of the Woodstock music festival begins, and more events from August 15th.1769: Napoleon Is Born Wikimedia CommonsA portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David. 1812.
French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte is born on the island of Corsica. Napoleon would be crowned Emperor of the French in 1804, and his tumultuous reign was marked by a series of wars and conquests that ensnared most of Europe. Read More...
