Through the will drawn up by Alfred Bernhard Nobel—the Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosives—the Nobel Prizes were established on this day in 1895.
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On November 27, 1942, the French navy scuttled 73 ships at Toulon in order to avoid German seizure during World War II.
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A piece of property at SurvivalRealty.com (that is pictured above) in Manitoba, Canada caught my eye: Riverfront Off-Grid Timber Frame Home on 95 Acres in Canada. Click on the map and zoom out a bit. From a retreat security standpoint, there are very few places that can rival a property that sits inside an oxbow of a large river. I’d call that ultra-defendable. at least from a ground attack!
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Today is also the birthday of both SurvivalBlog’s Field Gear Editor Emeritus, Pat Cascio, and sci-fi novelist L. Sprague de Camp (1907 – 2000).
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Today’s feature is a review that was penned by SurvivalBlog Filed Gear Editor Tom Christianson.