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October 6, 2008 7:04:32 PM CDT


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  • April 2008
    • Mystery of Little Prince Author's Fate Solved

      Mystery of Little Prince Author's Fate Solved

      (Newser) - One of aviation’s great mysteries has been solved: What happened to Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, the French pilot and author of The Little Prince, who disappeared in 1944. A bracelet turned up in the Mediterranean a decade ago, then a sunken aircraft. An archeologist diver, not satisfied to stop there, contacted hundreds of veterans before hearing, “You can stop searching. I shot down Saint-Exupéry.” More »

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      France   World War II   aviation   author   mystery   unsolved mystery   Luftwaffe

  • February 2008
    • Germans Find Hidden Nazi Gold

      Germans Find Hidden Nazi Gold

      (Newser) - Treasure hunters in Germany have announced they've found a secret stash of Nazi gold in an underground cavern and they believe it could be from the looted Amber Room of the Russian czars, Der Speigel reports. Instruments have detected what could be 2 tons of gold in the cavern near a town on the Czech border. The site was pinpointed using coordinates found among the belongings of a former Luftwaffe staffer who died recently. More »

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      Russia   Germany   Nazi   World War II   history   discovery   gold   treasure   Amber Room   Luftwaffe   czar

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