Category: Museums & Landmarks
“Champaign Lady” – Inside One Museum’s Campaign to Restore a Long-Serving B-17
“The ultimate goal is to bring interested people into Urbana to see this piece of living World War Two history.” By Dave Hamill The Champaign Aviation Museum, located in the small town of Urbana, Ohio,…
Guarding the Gobi Desert Frontier – Life at the Fortress of Jiayuguan in the 1920s
“They may conquer the desert spaces and shatter its silences, but they can never capture its magic charm.” By George Yagi Jr. BUILT ON THE frontiers of China during the Ming Dynasty, the 14th century…
The Fortress of Jiayuguan – Dispatches from China’s Far-Flung Silk Road Citadel
“As a symbol of the extent of the Chinese Empire, and marking the end of the Great Wall, it is not surprising that Jiayuguan developed a near mythical reputation.” By George Yagi Jr. ESTABLISHED ALONG…
Of Scythians and Amazons — Warrior Women of the Era of Alexander the Great
“Aeschylus described them as ‘the Amazons of the land of Colchis, the virgins fearless in battle, the Scythian hordes who live at the world’s end.’” By David Grant IN NOVEMBER OF 1977, excavators in the…
The Lost Marines of Guadalcanal – Inside the Search for the Remains of Servicemen Killed in WW2
In the aftermath of the Matanikau Offensive, the 5th Marines established the largest field burial site outside on Guadalcanal – and it remains undiscovered to this day. By Geoffrey Roecker MAURICE RAPHAEL couldn’t get the…
Caesar’s British Invasion – Unravelling the Mysteries of Rome’s Earliest Campaign in England
“Despite Caesar’s own first-hand accounts of his British invasions, many of the finer details of his campaigns have stumped historians and researchers for literally hundreds of years.” By Roger Nolan JULIUS CAESAR INVADED Britain more…
