Aircraft crash due to lightning strike causes 17-year-old Juliane Koepke to try to survive in the Peruvian jungle — On the 24th of December 1971 a young Juliane Koepcke and her mother cane aboard a Lockheed L-188A Electra airliner in Callao, Peru, to see their family in Pucallpa for Christmas eve. The conditions on that fateful day proved to not be ideal for flying which caused…

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Balloonfest ’86 the balloon record which ended several lives and caused way more damage than it should have — In 1986 the non-profit organization United way decided that a great way to gain publicity and raise funds for their cause was through volunteer sponsorship. After six months of preparation, a spot was chosen in Cleveland Ohio where a city block was dedicated to United Way in order to break…

There were a total of 638, here are some of the more interesting ones. — Ever since Fidel Castro took control as Prime Minister of Cuba in 1959 he was demonized by the American government as one of the biggest threats to the security of their nation. The United States has enjoyed a degree of safety during its existence from external attacks due to its…

How strips of aluminum foil helped in the fight against the Third Reich — In 1943, bombing raids on the Third Reich were becoming increasingly intense, but the losses involved were unbearable for the Allies. British scientists Joan Curran and Robert Cockburn developed, in great secrecy, a trivially simple way to fool German radars. Today, it is hard to believe that their invention changed…

HMS Vanguard, the final battleship ever constructed — HMS Vanguard was the last battleship ever built, having entered service after the end of the Second World War. Unfortunately, due to a change in British naval doctrine, the battleship was useless from the start and was scrapped in 1960. A need for the massive vessel The history of the HMS Vanguard dates back to 1939…

The story of how phone switchboards became automated due to an undertaker being robbed of customers — Stowger was born in Penfield, New York, in 1839. Very little information is known about his childhood except that he had a few brothers who had a keen interest in inventing machines to make their chores easier. During the American Civil war, he joined the 8th New York Volunteer Cavalry…

How Caesar’s political opponent Cato was humiliated due to a love letter — The times in which Julius Caesar was a senator were very strange and complex. Due to the fact that Roman high society was very complicated and relatively small, it meant that better off Romans knew each other rather well, this sometimes led to complications when two people disagreed and some…