Disasters Chapters

Whether natural or man-made, disasters simultaneously cause massive destruction and unity of people trying to help those in need. Discover some of the world's worst disasters in this collection.

In 1998, Al-Qaeda terrorists coordinate two nearly simultaneous bombings at U.S. embassies.

Terrorists connected to Osama Bin Laden use explosives aboard a small boat to bomb a U.S. naval destroyer in Yemen.

Terrorists bomb the World Trade Center in 1993 and plan other airplane attacks.

A long investigation, by the Warren Commission, officially concludes that Oswald acted alone in President Kennedy's murder.

Rabies is still a life-threatening illness in real life. It is also an influencer for movies and novels starring Zombies.

After Pasteur and his team developed a very effective rabies vaccine, scientists turned their research-attention elsewhere. Rabies, however, still kil...

In the ancient world, including Greeks and Romans, physicians believed that the human body was comprised of four different "humors." If those humors w...

Words describing rabies, going back to ancient times, are all based on fear. It is a disease from which people die if they develop symptoms.

The sailors sent to repair the leak suffer from radiation sickness and many of them die.

Indonesians decide to get rid of native trees and replace them with more valuable oil palm trees.

Pyroclastic flow follows the initial cloud of ash and pumice.

The search for bodies from the Titanic and their burial.

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