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Confederate Civil War vessel H.L. Hunley, the world’s first successful combat submarine when it sank a Union ship in 1864, was unveiled in full and unobstructed for the first time.

A pair of French metal detector enthusiasts returned the lost dog tag of Private Kent Potter, an American Army soldier who fought in WWI, to his family in Kansas after unearthing it from its 90-year resting place. Private Potter, who worked on an Army supply train that consisted mostly of mules and horses, survived the war but returned home without the tag.

Authorities arrested a man who forced a 73-year-ol...

 

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