Catastrophes

22-12-2020
The story of a stewardess who survived a fall from a height ...
23 December 2016 at the age of 66 years died a legendary flight attendant Vesna Vulovic, which in 1972 was present at the explosion ...

13-12-2020
Awkward moment: 10 failures in history
You fell, you were doused with water? Cat pee in your boots you bought expired milk? Do not worry and do not consider yourself a ...

11-12-2020
9 pilots intentionally crashed the aircraft
Sunday morning, 26 September 1976 pilot Vladimir Serkov sent the An-2 aircraft without passengers to a five-storey residential ...

09-12-2020
Trap: a terrible case, after which you will think before you ...
The fear of getting stuck in the Elevator haunts many. These fears are not unfounded. In the world there are dozens of cases when ...

07-12-2020
Die inhabitants of Pompeii
Pompeii, the ancient Roman town near Naples, was buried under a layer of volcanic ash in the eruption of mount Vesuvius on 24 ...

05-12-2020
The tragedy of the Morro Castle disaster on the liner, hosted ...
The best way to profit in the years of prohibition of alcohol. This simple Maxim in 1930, adopted the American company Ward Line ...

02-12-2020
Typhoon of dishonor: how the disaster has plunged a whole ...
A knife and pepper spray gave 19-year-old Filipina Ghemme her sister when the girl was preparing for my first day in the brothel of ...

15-09-2020
Looks like the end of the world: the artist makes realistic ...
Artist and photographer Lori nix from Kansas, where it is constantly carried by a tornado for a long time, inspired by the imminent ...

15-07-2020
Nuclear weapons testing — 75 years
Since the first nuclear explosion, codenamed Trinity, on 16 July 1945, was held for nearly two thousand atomic bomb tests, and most ...

05-12-2011
Fukushima — risk zone
In June, National Geographic sent photographer David Guttenfelder in the risk zone around the Fukushima plant, which suffered from ...

23-05-2011
New tornadoes in the United States
In the South and mid-West of America continues deadly spring – the new tornado continues to tear apart now the States of Missouri ...

23-05-2011
The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Grimsvotn (part 2)
The most active volcano in Iceland Grimsvotn began erupting on Saturday may 21 for the first time since 2004. A column of smoke and ...

23-05-2011
The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Grimsvotn (part 1)
In Iceland, the eruption of the active volcano — Grimsvotn. The height of a column of steam and ash have already reached the ...

22-05-2011
Ghost town
11 Mar 2011 coast of Japan shook under the action of 9-point earthquake. It was followed by a devastating tsunami, sweeping away ...