Japanese and U.S. officials have found four mass graves that they believe hold the remains of 500 World War II soldiers, nearly 65 years after a bloody battle on the remote Alaskan island of Attu. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Thousands of people have been placed under quarantine in a town in northwest China after a man died of pneumonic plague and 11 others were confirmed infected with the deadly lung infection. picked by kakana 4 months ago

A wildlife biologist at Grand Canyon National Park most likely died from the plague contracted while performing a necropsy on a mountain lion that later tested positive for the disease, officials said Friday. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

The Venezuelan government has formally donated an island near Philadelphia back to the United States. Petty Island, an uninhabited island some 528 acres (214 ha) in size, is situated in the Delaware River in the state of New Jersey.
It was bought by Venezuela's state-run energy company, PDVS, in 1990. picked by bingo 7 months ago

The Black Death which wiped out over 75 million people during the Middle Ages has killed at least 40 of the terrorists-in-training at a camp in Algeria. Recent evidence indicates they were developing biological weapons to use against western cities. Bubonic Plague is a very painful way to die. picked by equinox 10 months ago

Back on May 27, 1911 Coney Island was doing worse off than it is today, with Dreamland Park in flames for a full 18 hours, burning to the ground and never again being rebuilt as it was. But a piece of the glory days was just found underwater; local divers are bringing up a piece of the past: a massive 500-lb bell that sunk to the ocean floor with the rest of the pier. picked by suebe 3 months ago

New Zealanders didn't exactly push the boat out when they called the northern island North Island and... Well, I'm sure you know what the southern island is called. Turns out though that they also never got round to legally adopting these names. There's now a move to exploit this to rename the islands as the Maori originals. picked by pocksucket 7 months ago

Fragments of a Viking sword have been found on the Isle of Man, in what archaeologists are calling a "significant" discovery. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

...officials fear for the safety of the rodents. The facility in question has a history of losing plague-infected critters. Four years ago, three live mice infected with bubonic plague also disappeared. picked by BrownTrout 10 months ago

A British owned island in the South Atlantic has been overrun by hundreds of thousands of monster mice which have evolved into carnivores. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Residents of a tiny Scottish island have another special reason to celebrate the New Year, they will be connected to mains electricity for the first time. picked by muppet 2 years ago

Vandals desecrated 148 graves in the Muslim section of a military cemetery in northern France, hanging a pig's head on one of the headstones, police said on Sunday.

Whatever your beliefs, this is just plain wrong. Wtf is wrong with some people. picked by doggylives 2 years ago

It’s been nearly 30 years since Rhode Island granted a green light to indoor prostitution. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

It doesn't take much to destroy a culture! picked by Phildo 3 years ago

The waste would be dumped on a side of the volcanic island that had been extensively quarried in the past 50 years. The island's original volcanic cone formation could also be rebuilt using the biosolids. picked by gnikgnok 3 years ago

Of all the place I would not expect this...to those of you too young to recall, Three Mile Island is home to what almost became the American version of Chernobyl*.

*If you are too young too know what Chernobyl was, freaking google it, I am too lazy to provide a link. But it was a million laughs for sure. picked by moe 2 years ago

It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds. But the decision to eradicate the felines from Macquarie island allowed the rabbit population to explode and, in turn, destroy much of its fragile vegetation that birds depend on for cover, researchers said Tuesday. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Colombian authorities have uncovered the mass graves of more than 100 people believed to have been killed during the country's long-running civil conflict. picked by KingKoopa 3 years ago

LOST merges with Gilligans Island.

I'm waiting for the Harlem Globetrotters to drop in on the island, personally. picked by donteatpoop 2 years ago

Four men, now in their 60s, met over the Internet, shared stories about the darkest days of their pasts and spurred an investigation into 32 graves at a reform school. picked by stinkobinko 12 months ago