Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the deadliest aviation disaster in history, when two jumbo jets collided on March 27, 1977. It happened on the small Spanish island of Tenerife, off the coast of West Africa. The events, coincidences and errors that led to the accident are almost too inc...
In the end, the bomb wiped out 90 percent of the city. Sailor George Mendonsa saw dental assistant Greta Zimmer Friedman for the first time among the celebration at V-J Day. He grabbed and kissed her. This photograph would go on to become one of the most well-known in history, while ...
The sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst maritime disaster in history. Sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1945, the death toll on the Wilhelm Gustloff was equivalent to nearly six Titanics. DirectorsRobert M. Wise | James Younger Producers Peter Hankoff | Gavin Hodge ...
A faulty air vent had opened when the orbital and descent modules of Soyuz 11 separated, and the cabin had depressurized; the cosmonauts, none of whom were wearing space suits, likely suffocated to death 30 minutes before landing. As a legacy of the Soyuz 11 disaster, the Soviet and U.S...
the coastal railway was thrown from the tracks by the tsunami. 1,700 people died. It was the deadliest train disaster in history. This was by far the deadliest tsunami event ever recorded. It led to the development of an advanced tsunami warning system that now has stations across the ...
history was the 1990 Galveston Texas hurricane, which killed an estimated 8,000 people. The storm surge accounted for most of the deaths. The costliest natural disaster in U.S. history wag caused by the storm surge created by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The hurricane’s storm surge burst ...
Airship Disaster to Be Marked ; Experts Say Deadliest Dirigible Crash Often Overshadowed by Famous Hindenburg ExplosionRahman, Rema
Normally, fast-moving storms are less of a rain hazard, but Helene was a big exception. In the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, Helene’s rain was enhanced by the terrain and what’s known asorographic uplift. When a storm is forced to rise up a mountainside, the air c...
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Wall Street money manager Edward Dowd has made billions of dollars for companies such as Black Rock picking good businesses with good products. He can also spot a fraud, and Dowd says Pfizer simply made up the research t
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