Portsmouth posts
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (9 months ago)
May 14th, 2011 at 1:00PM:
The shipwreck of a 17th century merchant vessel off the coast of England is going to be raised from the sea, the BBC reports.
An armed merchant vessel that plied the high seas sank in the Swash Channel off the coast of Dorset more than 300 years ago. Underwater archaeology teams have been studying the wreck and have found cannon, pottery, and an intriguing face of a man carved into the ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (9 months ago)
May 5th, 2011 at 8:30AM: Claude Choules, the last known combat veteran of WWI, has died aged 110. Born in England in 1901, he was too young to enlist in the army when the war broke out in 1914, so he waited until he was 15 and enlisted in the Royal Navy, where he saw service throughout the war.
Unlike most veterans, he liked the service and stayed on. While working as a visiting instructor for the Australian Navy, he ...
by Gadling staff (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Mar 25th, 2010 at 4:30PM:
Last month, the writers at Gadling spent a lot of time at the pub, creating this list of The 24 greatest cities in the world for drinking beer. We had so much fun and got so many great comments, we decided we couldn't stop: we headed back to the bar and asked for another round. Here's 15 more of our favorite cities in the world for drinking great beer. Did we include your favorite? Take a ...
by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Apr 18th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Who thought that Tennessee and New Hampshire would be some of the top towns in the country for art lovers. AmericanStyle magazine just issued the results of its twelfth annual arts destinations poll. Some spots are predictable. Others, like Chattanooga, will just blow your mind. This is the first year Chattanooga made the list, shooting all the way up to second in the mid-sized city category. If ...
by Anna Brones (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Oct 7th, 2008 at 2:30PM: Have you ever missed a flight? It's a stressful and frustrating situation, especially if you have a carefully planned out itinerary that requires your presence in certain places at certain times. When a man named Dave missed his flight from Portsmouth to Munich -- where he was to celebrate his friend's bachelor party by drinking beer at Oktoberfest -- he decided to forgo the airlines. Instead he ...