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Christmas Day, 1914: German and British troops are out of their trenches, playing soccer, bartering goods and singing songs. For a brief moment, the fighting has ceased. The previous night, soldiers on both sides had begun singing Christmas songs in their respective languages — but under a unified melody. Music was often a commonality between […]

Bruce McCandless, former Navy Pilot and astronaut, died on Thursday, the 21st. McCandless was known primarily for being the first man to make an untethered space walk, otherwise known as “untethered free flight,” where they disconnect entirely from their spacecraft and head on out into the abyss. The image featured above is the famous picture […]

What do you do when you have collected watches for over three decades and have curated a massive online timepiece catalog that spans more than a century?  If you are Dan Henry, you take a risk and manufacture your own collection of vintage style watches that are affordable and accessible to everyone.  His Timeline.Watch site […]

Human beings are plagued with a desire to be put on one side of a thing. It could be war or an ideology — the Union or the Confederacy, the Sunnis or the Shiites — or it could be something more peaceful and healthy — the Eagles or the Giants, the Americans or the Russians […]

On December 19, 1972, a command module came careening back into Earth’s atmosphere, deployed its parachutes and landed in the Pacific Ocean at 2:25 p.m. The USS Ticonderoga, an Essex class aircraft carrier that has since been decommissioned and scrapped, was located only four miles away and they picked up the three astronauts, safely bringing […]

The MTM Special Ops Silver Falcon is a watch that I was very excited to review.  I generally prefer a more simplistic watch and stay away from ones with extra bells and whistles, but the Falcon manages to offer the extras while maintaining a very classy profile.  The primary benefit I see in this watch […]

There are many common themes in literature that have become so overused, watered down and taken lightly that they eventually transform into a trope or a stereotype. If you are to read classic literature, you can often find the origins of these tropes in a classic story, and somehow those classics rarely feel so overused […]

I was watching the news this morning, as I typically do, when I heard a journalist talking about the U.S. military involvement in Yemen.  In an offhand comment, the reporter described the extent of the United States’ involvement as providing refueling support to Saudi aircraft operating in the skies over Yemen. That was it. Immediately, […]

Over the last two days I drove with my dog from the sunny, warm Tampa, Florida to the cold and wintery Binghamton in upstate New York, and I’ll be making the same drive back in three days time — it’s approximately 18 hours each way without accounting for stops. Just over Thanksgiving, I made a trip […]

Christopher Ward is no secret amongst watch enthusiasts, but casual watch wearers looking for their next purchase should pay attention.  While not quite in the luxury watch market, Christopher Ward is a London-based timepiece maker that is making some of the best quality watches in their price range.  Although truthfully, they’re punching above their weight.  […]

One thing that all special units have in common is an aversion to quitting and quitters. The greatest sin, the one unforgivable error is to quit, no matter what the obstacle. Only death can stop a truly determined man. You have to know that the man next to you will not break and run when […]

On May 23rd, 4th Light Reaction Company operators alongside a company of Scout-Rangers quietly approached the hideout of terrorist leader Isnilon Hapilon.  The Philippine armed services had been conducting a long-term surveillance operation on the terrorist safe house, located among a small cluster of homes along a road on the outskirts of Marawi.  The U.S. Special Forces-trained […]