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The Night Stealth Fell: The Story of Vega-31

7 Dec 2025 6 minute read 2 comments Investigator515

Stealth technology is here to stay. With nearly three decades of service under its belt, Stealth changed the way that aircraft would operate and increased survivability to new heights. However, stealth isn’t the only contributing factor, and while ma...

2,000 Women Run Free, Kish Marathon Mocks Iran’s Morality Police

6 Dec 2025 1 minute read 8 comments Melina Mehr

Kish Marathon Mocks Iran’s Morality Police: 2,000 Women Run Free in “Hijab-Optional” Race”On Friday, December 5, 2025, more than 5,000 runners — including roughly 2,000 women who openly ditched the compulsory hijab — turned the upscale resort island...

The Cycling Group Leader Called Me

5 Dec 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Melina Mehr

  whole plan was to head up into the forested mountains… but...   Another weekend rolled around, and I’d originally planned to spend it all to myself, just me and the mountains.   These days, the hills are breathtaking—the trees have exploded into gr...

Just Push Them Off A Cliff

3 Dec 2025 2 minute read 7 comments Melina Mehr

    A Glance at Iranian Female Singers Persecuted or Imprisoned for Their Art Under the Islamic Republic. As Iranian women’s voices of defiance against religious fanaticism grow louder, and more refuse to bow to the regime’s compulsory hijab and suff...

SPARTAN MERCENARIES IN PERSIA: The Battle of Cunaxa, 401 BC

3 Dec 2025 36 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked

At the turning of the fifth to the fourth centuries BC, over a thousand miles from Greece, ten-thousand Greek mercenaries employed by a Persian general found themselves stranded deep inside Persia, in what is now modern-day Iraq. The ensuing escape s...

Live Life Like Tomorrow Is A Maybe!

2 Dec 2025 1 minute read 12 comments Melina Mehr

  Live like there is no tomorrow I mean we all have heard the expression, right? but we never do, because we don't have to. There are always the tomorrows waiting tomorrow! We put money aside for emergencies. We delay stuff that are not emergency an...

Iran’s Silent Killer: 161 Lives Lost Every Day

30 Nov 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr

  Iran’s Silent Killer: 161 Lives Lost Every Day to Poisonous Air                                   Yes, you read that right – 161 people die daily in Iran because of air pollution. Citizens are now calling their country “Iran’s A...

What The Tech?! The UART

30 Nov 2025 4 minute read 4 comments Investigator515

In just a few decades, we went from magnetic tape to the cassette, before moving to the Compact Disc and eventually, fully digital and streamable media. And while these iterations provide huge benefits around things like storage capacity or quality,...

Exploring Espionage: The Hollow Nickel

30 Nov 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

A single coin paid to a 14-year-old boy would expose a Soviet spy. In the aftermath of WW2, the stage had been set for some serious spying. In a world still reeling from the social and economic aftermath of total war, the presence of nuclear weapons...

The Chill Hits Your Body Instantly

29 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr

Some days are good, some not so much, and some make up for all the pain of the bad ones. This time, I decided to write about a good day.   When we were kids, the essay topic  called “How did you spend your summer?” always gave me a headache. My famil...