The rare black-footed ferret will be reintroduced to the wilds of Canada this fall after a 70-year absence.
First, the animals will have to undergo weeks of vigorous survival training.

Sometimes boot camp works, sometimes not. picked by Bingo 5 months ago

Twinky-looking camp counselors give classes in grenade throwing, automatic weapon handling and land mine dodging. picked by beckinacea 2 years ago

British archaeologists have unearthed the secrets of what is thought to be the world’s first prisoner of war camp.

Experts, working with Channel 4’s Time Team programme, say the camp near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, housed 7,000 captured French soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Charles T. Payne was 20 years old when he helped liberate Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. He is the "Uncle Charlie" that Obama told a group of veterans about. The ones he mistakenly said Auschwitz. Here he talks about that moment in his life. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Richard Dawkins is helping to launch Britain’s first summer retreat for non-believers, where children will have lessons in evolution and sing along to John Lennon’s Imagine.

The five-day camp in Somerset (motto: “It’s beyond belief”) is for children aged eight to 17 and will rival traditional faith-based breaks run by the Scouts and church groups. picked by bingo 5 months ago

One adult and three teenagers at a Boy Scout camp are accused of forcing a boy to drink human urine because they were "teaching him a lesson". picked by kakana 5 months ago

"It entered a camp and took a goat among 200 sleeping kids"

This happened up in the mountains where I live... thought I would share. picked by Hoosker 2 years ago

A 13-foot totem pole fell over and struck a boy on the first day of Boy Scout camp, killing the 9-year-old, state police said Monday. picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

Choosing a Camping Stove - Good food has the power to make breathtaking sunsets more beautiful, rainy days less of a drag and good friends even more fun to be around. Learn how to choose the right camping stove for your family. picked by myrthachang 3 years ago

Eight former staff members of a Florida juvenile boot camp have been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 14-year-old boy whose beating by guards was captured on videotape picked by teaya21 3 years ago

Eight identical buildings stretching out along 5km of beach front and capable of hosting 20,000 people at a time, Prora was the official holiday resort of the Nazi Party.
Here is the location on Google Maps and here's another article about the place. Yet another one with pictures here picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

A small group of homeless sex offenders have set up camp in densely wooded area behind a suburban Atlanta office park, directed there by probation officers who say it's a place of last resort for those with nowhere else to go. picked by drogue 2 months ago

In other news, they've announced the cancelation of the annual cookie sale in favor of brownies. picked by tigertony 1 year ago

Rare pictures of German prisoners of war from World War I showing the Japanese how to produce sausages have been discovered. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Chinese families are unplugging Internet-addicted loved ones and shipping them off to boot camps.

"They don’t only have psychological problems, but also a bad lifestyle. Often they don’t wash themselves; they just sit at their computer." picked by Bingo 5 months ago

A Tumwater, Wash., high school band director is back in jail on new charges of child sex abuse in Idaho. picked by muppet 2 years ago

Twenty-two people were arrested during the night, mostly for drunk-in-public violations, police spokeswoman Janet Pope Givens said. picked by tchengrox 2 years ago

A good baby sitter is priceless, as parents of young children know. picked by Bornbad 11 months ago

The case of the "Pantyhose Bandit" has neighbors on Geneseo Circle creeped out and at their wit's end: the culprit keeps dumping pairs of ladies' tights right by their children's bus stop on Camp Street. picked by LeehBlanc 1 year ago

Deng Senshan had never skipped school, never been diagnosed with a mental illness and, according to his family, surfed the Web only on weekends.

Yet on Aug 1, the 15-year-old was admitted to a rehab camp for Internet addiction. picked by suebe 4 months ago