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Pittsburgh area construction site yields 700 pieces of ordnance (PHOTOS)

by Chris Eger

Ongoing construction this year in Lawrenceville near the location of the historic Allegheny Arsenal has kept Army explosive ordnance disposal teams busy.

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Mine, German bomber, 96 cannonballs and a skull pop up in dredge of harbor (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

In a move to deepen Portsmouth harbor in preparation for a new class of aircraft carriers, more than 20,000 oddball items lost over time have popped to the surface.

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20 Cannonballs coughed up at Pittsburgh area construction site (VIDEOS)

by Chris Eger

Construction crews working in the Lawrenceville neighborhood Monday stumbled upon a tangible reference to the area's industrial past that needed bomb squad intervention.

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Germans evac 50,000 on Christmas due to huge 70-year old bomb

by Chris Eger

The ancient Bavarian town of Augsburg called for one of the largest post-WWII evacuations in German history on Christmas after a live 2-ton bomb was unearthed.

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The trick to disarming 170 Civil War artillery shells in the field (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

Engineers and technicians have spent the last two months turning live artillery shells, recovered from the mud of Savannah harbor, into inert museum pieces.

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