55 results for "white death"

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80 years ago today Simo Häyhä—better known as “White Death”—set his personal record sniping Soviet invaders

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White Death

A lone Finnish sniper repels enough invading Russians in WW2 to earn the nickname "White Death".
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E. B. White’s 1948 essay ‘Death of a Pig’

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The Chinese-Australian war hero who shot dead over 200 enemies but was whitewashed and forgotten for half a century

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The Walter White of Wichita

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A Trail Gone Cold

Against the odds, a tiny Icelandic town speaks of a local Black ancestor. Geneticists and historians combine forces to uncover the man’s eventful life.
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Giving the Bird the Bird

A Brief Note From an Ex-X User
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How Are These Trees Floating Over a Finnish Road?

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Lofty Ambitions

In 1933, British WWI vet Maurice Wilson hatched an unorthodox plan to reach the still-untouched summit of Everest.
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Fact Check: Did a Ukrainian Sniper Just Make the World’s Second-Farthest Kill?

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