The Cannonball Run is a roughly 2,800-mile run from New York City to Redondo Beach in California. Most, if not all, gas cars that attempted to set a record on the route were heavily modified. So ...

CASTINE, Maine (WABI) - The Maine State Police Bomb Squad was called to Castine Monday after the discovery of potentially explosive cannonballs. The Castine Historical Society says they discovered two ...

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine was closed Friday while a historic ordnance item was removed from the park. On Nov. 21 around noon, National Park Service preservationists discovered ...

Construction workers unearthed an old cannonball at Fort McHenry, Baltimore fire officials told WBAL-TV 11 News.As a precaution, the city police bomb squad and fire department's hazardous materials ...

In 1970, a 45-foot, 8-ton sperm whale washed ashore near Florence, Oregon. The Oregon State Highway Division decided to dispose of the carcass using dynamite. Florence will celebrate the 55th ...

Fifty-five years ago, a dead sperm whale washed ashore near Florence — and what happened next became one of the most infamous moments in state history. Engineers from the Oregon Highway Division, ...

Lesley Suter is the ASME- and James Beard Award-winning Special Projects director at Eater, where she oversees commerce, editorial packages, and other coordinated efforts across the network. The ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. L.A.-based Exploding Kittens and founder Elan Lee add a big dose of “fun” into “fundamentally changing a business ...

For the cover of the October 20, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Harry Bliss wanted to share a recent experience that filled him with joy. “With apologies to my wife, there aren’t many things on this ...

We decided to attach all kinds of objects to cannonballs and launch them to see what would happen. From unexpected flight paths to explosive impacts, this experiment delivers pure chaos and crazy ...

How often do black holes explode? New research refines old calculations, hinting that black hole explosions may be a once-in-a-decade occurence. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...