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.
When swarming locusts descend on a place - and start to eat/destroy crops, plants or leaves with rapacious speed - human beings are often left with li...
European Landing Sites for Shuttle Flights - What happens if the shuttle crew detects a problem, after launch, while the orbiter is over the Atlantic?
When the U.S. was finally able to send a teacher into space, successfully, more than 20 years had passed since Christa McAuliffe's tragic death aboard...
Rick Smiths unit had a motto on the 30th of October, 1991:These things we do, that others may live.
Three decades after the world's deadliest aircraft accident, Robert Bragg (Pan Am's First Officer) recalls what happened when he first realized that a...
Visibility is still poor. The Pan Am crew cannot see the KLM plane, which means the KLM crew cannot see the Pan Am plane. A catastrophic disaster is...
Who were the men who sent America to war in Vietnam?
During the 14th century, when the plague struck Europe, even doctors were unsure what was happening.
February 3, 1959, is known as "the day the music died" when Buddy Holly (22), Ritchie Valens (17) and J.P. ("The Big Bopper") Richardson (28) died whe...
After a six-month period of relative quiet, which some journalists called a "phony war," Hitler sent his troops to invade, then occupy, Norway in Apri...
This image depicts "The Green Hornet" - a B-24 used in the Pacific theater during WWII.
On September 1, 1941, German Jews received the police directive that all Jews above the age of six to wear a yellow star.
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