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When the Gales of November Came Early: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

On the 10th of November 1975 at 7:10 PM, Captain McSorley radioed “We are holding our own” to the Arthur M Anderson in what he had earlier reported were the worst seas he had ever seen in his 37 years Read more…


Mining and the Battle of Messines

“The signal for its beginning was the most terribly beautiful thing, the most diabolical splendour, I have seen in war. Out of the dark ridges of Messines and Wytschaete and that ill-famed Hill 60, for which many of our best Read more…