In Pentecost Land diving, a traditional community ritual, men leap from massive wooden towers with just tree vines tied around their legs.

White ball gowns, updos, fancy dinners, and father-daughter dances – all these things typically bring to mind a wedding, but that’s not the only place you might encounter them. They are also common fixtures at Purity Balls, a formal gala young women attend with their fathers that is intended to...

Rather than keeping their waste on the submarine in septic tanks, German engineers devised a method for the U-1206 to discharge waste directly into the water.

Project Habakkuk was an ill-fated projected designed to harness natural resources into weapons of war. It did not go well.