Everyone has heard of Pompeii destroyed by Vesuvius. However, volcanoes have many more victims on their conscience. These are the biggest eruptions in history. Scientists estimate that in the last 10,000 years, more than 1,500 volcanoes have been active on Earth , causing a total of nearly 8,000
In 1977, the German physician Gunther von Hagens developed a process known as plastination. Decades later, his troupes starred in a Bond movie. The provocative nature of art probably does not surprise anyone anymore. What if it is a bit macabre and even pathological? How far can you go in the name
It is not known whether Roy Sullivan can speak of luck or bad luck. In his life, a man has been hit by lightning seven times. First, a little math. A persons chances of being struck by lightning in the next storm are 1:10,000. Despite such a low probability, Roy Cleveland Sullivan, ranger of Vir
A seemingly harmless accident at a chemical plant turned out to be tragic. This is the story of the Italian city of Seveso covered in a poison cloud. In 1976, the Seveso population was approximately 17,000. The town did not stand out with anything special - there was an agricultural economy, sev
$ 20,000 - thats how much was looted by thieves who robbed a bank in Norco in 1980. But it wasnt the stolen sum that made the robbery history. Every fan of sensational movies knows that one of the best scenes of a bank robbery is the one from the movie Rush. Even though the scene is praised for it
On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in the port of Halifax. The gigantic explosion that resulted from the accident killed nearly 2,000 people. Stop the train. The ship with the ammunition caught fire in the port, is headed for pier 6 and is about to explode. I think this will be my last messag
His portfolio is filled with photos of young, attractive women. Participants of beauty contests and models. He promised them a career and then brutally murdered them. Christopher Wilder was born in Sydney on March 13, 1945, the son of an Australian and a US naval officer. He was a difficult child.
This was the last major military clash between the United States Army and the Indians of the Great Plains. On December 29, 1890, the whites, concerned about the Spirit Dance religion and the commotion it caused on the reservations, killed over 150 Indians. For much of the United States westward ex
An uprising against oppressive lords, the defense of the religion or the skilful movement of Russian propaganda? Why was there the slaughter of Poles and Jews in Ukraine in the 18th century? It all started shortly after the establishment of the Bar Confederation. The first larger group of haidamak
Salem made history with the famous 17th century witch trials. Two centuries later, however, the city became the scene of another famous trial that inspired two eminent writers, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. On the morning of April 7, 1830, Joseph White, 82-year-old wealthy captain and
Men and boys over 15 were shot, women were sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and younger children were gassed in the camp in Chełmno on the Ner. Two villages:Lidice and Lezaki were razed to the ground. For many months, the Germans took their vengeance on the Czech Republic for the attack o
They were the most numerous group of Auschwitz victims. Between March 1944 and January 1945, the Nazis murdered almost half of the Jews of Hungary in order to make soap out of them with German pedantry. In 1944, almost all Jewish communities in Europe ceased to exist. The exception was Hungary f
In 1929, the inhabitants of Düsseldorf were horrified. Murders began to take place in the city, the brutality of which shocked everyone. The victims were of different ages and sexes, and the traces leading to the discovery of the perpetrator were like medicine. Additionally, local newspapers began r
Trials in which clerics are judged have always attracted a lot of attention. On the one hand, they are not frequent, on the other - the position of the accused is always a guarantor of publicity. It was the same with Hans B. Schmidt, whose outrageous crimes shook the United States and echoed in Germ
In nineteenth-century Galicia, it was ruled by a lord and a parson. The peasant was to serve and be silent. However, it was boiling in the villages. A spark was enough to set your palaces on fire. The Austrians set this spark. For a 19th-century peasant, the world usually ended after the last patc
At the beginning of 1943, rumors started reaching the inhabitants of Przebraż that the Ukrainian hordes were murdering Poles in Volhynia, but no one believed it. And in fact - this small village survived the slaughter. Polish self-defense managed to fend off the UPA attacks, although it bloodily pai
“The army is mostly made up of idle and idle types. Without the constant supervision of the commander, this machine quickly disintegrates - said Frederick the Great. And indeed - out of concern for the army, this philosopher-king and ruthless perfectionist made his soldiers more afraid of their offi
Following the search for serial killers, watching accounts of their trials or reading the details of their crimes is gruesome entertainment, but it is not a novelty. For centuries, the public has loved good, gory stories. In the nineteenth century, they did not end with the execution of the perpetra
He accompanied Hitler like a shadow. He did not leave him during the journey, ready to operate at any moment. The Führers physician, Karl Brandt, was the initiator of the bestial experiments on people in concentration camps and the Nazi program of universal euthanasia for the disabled (the so-called
Although it is hard to believe, in the collections of many respected libraries of the world you can find books bound in human skin. Where did these exhibits come from and what is their history? Megan Rosenblooms investigation opens dark archives of the history of medicine, crime and collecting.
What did small-town games, the Indians, the dentist, and the escape from the operating table have in common? The discovery of anesthesia in medicine took some time and unsuccessful experiments. Nowadays it is difficult to imagine life without painkillers and anesthesia. Before anesthesia was used
Hermes in Greek, Merikurius in Latin used in Rome, Mercury in English, Hermes in French, and so on, the original god whose name you have heard somewhere is called Hermes in Greek mythology. Pillar. There are many names with Hermes as the etymology, such as Freddie Mercury in the recent blockbuster
The lost war with Russia in 1792 and the second partition of Poland shortly after plunged the Commonwealth into chaos. The outbreak of the uprising in defense of independence was only a matter of time. Its beginning turned out to be triumphant:the victory at Racławice filled Poles with hope that the
Edward VII (1841-1910) was not a typical king. He spent almost his entire life under a shed, as an underestimated son of a great ruler:Queen Victoria. He himself only became a monarch at the age of 60. He had a plethora of new responsibilities, but he had no intention of giving up his past pastimes.