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Find Your Spot | Find Your Spot. The 36 Absolute Best Things in the World. Email There are somethings in the is world which are just so much better than others. We are talking about those little things in life which really do make life worth living. Here we are looking at The 36 Absolute Best Things in the World. Feel free to share your own greatest things in life with us. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 35. 36. Unfortunately… For more hints, tips, news and all things technology and geek related please follow us on Facebook or Twitter or subscribe to our feed. [via - BustBubble.com] Be Sociable, Share! Related posts: 7 People Who Cheated Death (Then Kicked It In The Balls) We all like to think of ourselves as badasses. But what would you really do if faced with death?

How would you react to being dropped out of a plane without a parachute, or buried alive? After crapping your pants, that is. Well these people survived all of that and more, slapping Death in the face and telling it to go make them a sandwich. Vesna Vulovic 1, Mountain 0 Who was she? Vesna Vulovic was a stewardess back in the '70s working on a Serbian airline. How She Stared Down Death: Except for surviving countless ass gropings during her time as a stewardess there was really nothing special about this lady. On January 26, 1972 our gal was working an extra shift due to a clerical error. Like this, only six miles in the air Not only did she survive the explosion that blew the plane into pieces, but she was the only person to live after hitting the side of the mountain.

Not convinced? Want to see if you're as tough? Aron Ralston Hacks Off His Own Fucking Arm Who was he? Who was he? Who was he? 20 Amazing Photos You Don't Want To Miss. Chernobyl disaster. Location of Chernobyl nuclear power plant The Chernobyl disaster (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська катастрофа, Chornobylska Katastrofa – Chornobyl Catastrophe; also referred to as Chernobyl or the Chornobyl accident) was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then officially the Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe.

Overview The disaster began during a systems test on Saturday, 26 April 1986 at reactor number four of the Chernobyl plant, which is near the city of Pripyat and in proximity to the administrative border with Belarus and the Dnieper River. Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus have been burdened with the continuing and substantial decontamination and health care costs of the Chernobyl accident. Accident Timeline.