The barracks chief had taken a liking to the strange woman from the Notches. After her second disappearance into the bunker the chief scanned the corpse pile looking for her mutilated body. It would be a pity to see bone...
https://www.neatorama.com/bitlit/2011/05/16/the-cube-chapter-11-what-is-necessary-and-just/The US military is making ever more use of unmanned fighters and intelligence gathering aircraft. The great thing about this type of aircraft is that they can loiter over some far away battlefield for a long time, and i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/04/boeing-phantom-ray-makes-maiden-flight/On April 12th, 1861, 150 years ago today, the first battle of the US Civil War was fought at Ft. Sumter, in Charleston, South Carolina. Southern states had been seceding from the union for months, but the US still mainta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/12/the-battle-of-ft-sumter/What if you could train plants for national security? A biologist at Colorado State University working with the Department of Defense is doing just that. Genetic engineering is making plants react to threats they never e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/28/bomb-detecting-plants/Michael returned home from the bachelor party around 4 a.m. As soon as he stepped into the living room, he noticed that the red light of the answering machine was blinking. He figured it was nothing important. Whatever i...
https://www.neatorama.com/bitlit/2010/12/23/the-seducer-part-i-chapter-4/(Video Link) The folks at Springfield Arsenal in Lorton, Virginia acquired a 16th Century cannon that would be fitted onto the end of a pole. It has three barrels. Presumably the musket nipple on the side of each ba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/05/3-barrel-pole-cannon-fired-after-500-years/A secret corps of photographers and filmmakers documented US nuclear testing in the 1940s through the '60s. The "atomic moviemakers", officially known as the Lookout Mountain Laboratory, established in 1947, made at leas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/14/the-bomb-chroniclers/The examples of ancient Greco-Roman statuary t... ...lachite, blue from azurite, yellow and ocher from arsenic compounds, red from cinnabar, black from burned b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/20/the-vibrant-colors-of-ancient-statuary/According to Greek mythology, the water of the Sty... ...nd accidental or deliberate poisoning (hellebore, arsenic , aconite, strychnine)."Notably, some of Alex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/did-toxic-bacteria-kill-alexander-the-great/Kick-Ass is about a teenager who decides to become a superhero. So he makes a costume and goes out on the streets, looking for trouble. In Columbia, Tennessee, one college student took up the path and now calls himself...
https://www.neatorama.com/neatogeek/2010/07/08/real-life-crimefighter-appears-to-take-inspiration-from-kick-ass/
