Suppose you are a clandestine service agent for the CIA and you need to tell another agent that you have important information for him, but you suspect the walls have ears. Well, you could tie your shoelaces in a patter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/01/spy-shoelaces/As a British soldier in World War II, Denis Avey was captured by the Germans and sent to a prison camp, which was connected to the Auschwitz camp. While most inmates were concerned with getting out, Avey was trying to ge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/30/sneaking-into-auschwitz/Lorrie at Clueless in Carolina recently found a newspaper in her mother's home announcing the news that World War II had ended. Besides news, it contained sponsored ads celebrating VJ Day. You could almost feel the joy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/peace-in-the-news/One of the most eerie historical mysteries of all time is that of the strange disappearance of the three ligthouse keepers of Eilean Mor. Some even think they might have been abducted by a giant bird or squid... and, of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/27/the-eilean-mor-lighthouse-mystery/Americans know about Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse,... ...t familiar with all the Native Americans from the history of the early United States profiled in this slide...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/25/top-ten-legendary-native-americans/The History Bluff (motto: "Making a mess of history ") brings us another headscratcher with the s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/first-monkey-to-ever-walk-on-the-moon-declared-dead/The remote Mustang caves of Nepal are yielding treasures and artworks that lead explorers to think it may be the legendary Shangri-La. Expeditions in 2007 and 2008 found 15th-century paintings, religious texts, and skele...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/himalayan-caves-may-be-shangri-la/Most people outside Scandinavia would have a hard time naming more than two Vikings if you asked them. Sure, you're familiar with Eric the Red and his son Lief Ericson, but have you ever heard of Egil Skallagrimsson, who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/16/7-badass-vikings/The Navajo language is incredibly complex, with syntax, tonal qualities and dialects that render it unintelligible to outsiders. A spoken language, it has no alphabet or symbols, and is used only in remote Navajo areas o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/11/navajo-code-talkers/A massive army of Persian King Cambyses II was said to be swallowed up by the desert in the year 525 B.C. The army, containing a whopping 50,000 soldiers, made it to a desert oasis and then was never heard from again --u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/09/lost-persian-army-discovered-almost-2500-years-later/
