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What Life Is Like on the Secret Martian Colony ... in Hawaii

"Simple Sabotage" extended to factories, (Getty Images)

“Simple Sabotage” — The CIA’s Guide for “Rascally Spies”

Alexander Nevsky. From a private collection. (Getty)

Epic “Battle of the Ice” Rivaled the Casualties of “Game of Thrones”

Early 1940s Indo-China. (Getty Images)

The “Free-Wheeling” Amateur Spies of WWII Indochina

Belfast,Ireland early 1970s, when the laundry launched. (Getty Images)

Why the British Military Ran a Laundry Service and Massage Parlor

Gazing at the cosmos 160 years ago yielded a mystery planet that wasn't there. (Getty Images)

Vulcan-mania: Discovering the Planet That Wasn’t There

Looking to the sky for military weaponry is a thing. (Getty Images)

Rods From God: A Space Weapon to Make Thor Jealous

"Pat Lyon at the Forge," an 1829 portrait by John Neagle. Lyon was falsely accused of perpetrating the first bank robbery in the United States in 1798. (Photo credit: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)

What Not to Do After Robbing a Bank: Put the Money Right Back

Libyan chief of state Muammar al-Qaddafi attends a 1981 graduation at the women's military academy in Tripoli. The academy opened in 1979 during Qaddafi's push to include women in Libya's armed forces. (Photo by Christine Spengler/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

“No One Is Safe”: Hunting the Libyan Hit Squads of the 1980s

Ebenezer D. Bassett (1833-1908) was an African American who was appointed United States Ambassador to Haiti in 1869. He was the first African-American diplomat. (Getty Images)

How America’s First African-American Diplomat Saved Thousands of Lives

ALEXANDRIA, : Former senior Central Intelligence Agency office Aldrich Hazen Ames is led from U.S. Federal Courthouse in Alexandria, 22 February 1994, after being arraigned on charges of spying for the former Soviet Union. Ames' wife, Mari del Rosario Casas Ames, was also arraigned on the same charges. Ames and his wife were charged with spying for the former Soviet Union since 1985 and receiving more than 1.5 million USD. (Getty Images)

How the CIA Caught One of the Worst Russian Spies in History

Solar eruptions can pose a far-off but catastrophic threat to electrical grids. (Getty Images)

What Are GMDs and Why Is the US Government Worried About Them?

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