Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius Part 8. Top 10 Deadliest Airline Disasters. Technology Airplane accidents somehow attract the public’s attention with their drama and destruction. No car crash could ever seem so fascinating, terrifying or deadly, as many of them as happens every day. This is a list of the ten deadliest airplane accidents, or at least disasters most likely caused by accident. Excluded are Pan Am Flight 103 (270 fatalities, 0 survivors) and Air India Flight 182 (329 fatalities, 0 survivors), both caused by bombs, and the World Trade Center disaster (2753 fatalities shared between two planes), due to hijacking. For those of you with a fear of flying, it is worth noting that seven of these ten items (bonus excluded) occurred in the ’70s and ’80s, and two of the three more recent accidents occurred in countries that people would think twice about visiting.
Deadly accidents reveal shortcomings and ultimately make air travel safer. Korean Airlines Flight 007 Location: Near Moneron Island, Soviet Union Fatalities: 269 Survivors: 0 Iran Air Flight 655. 10 Events Surrounding September 11. Crime People all over the world are familiar with what happened on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four US commercial passenger jet airliners and intentionally crashed two of them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. The Twin Towers collapsed within two hours of being struck by the planes. Civilians from over 70 countries were killed in the attacks, with a total of 2,995 casualties.
In the months before and after September 11, many important international events occurred. Enron Scandal Revealed Most Americans are familiar with the failure of the Enron Corporation. The Enron scandal ended the business career of accounting firm Arthur Andersen. In 1972, thousands of official and unofficial FBI records were destroyed, upon the death of J. The presidential papers of Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush were due to be made public when George W.
During his presidency, George W. 2001 Atlantic Hurricane Season Death of Ahmad Shah Massoud. Top 10 Places You Can’t Go. Travel The world is full of secret and exclusive places that we either don’t know about, or simply couldn’t visit if we wanted to. This list takes a look at ten of the most significant places around the world that are closed to the general public or are virtually impossible for the general public to visit.
Mezhgorye is a closed town in Russia which is believed to house people working on the highly secret Mount Yamantaw. The town was founded in 1979. Vatican Secret Archives This has been mentioned on a previous list – the archives are not secret despite their names. Contrary to popular belief, Disneyland has a full liquor license which is used when the place closes down to the general public to accommodate private parties. Metro-2 in Moscow, Russia is a purported secret underground metro system which parallels the public Moscow Metro. White’s Gentlemen’s Club White’s is the most exclusive English gentlemen’s club.
Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center Jamie Frater. 10 Possible Resting Places of the Holy Grail. Religion The Holy Grail is a sacred object figuring into literature and certain Christian traditions, most often identified with the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper and said to possess miraculous powers. Conspiracy theories abound on the nature of the grail and the final location. This list looks at ten of the possible resting places of this mysterious object. The locals of the Accokeek area claim that a Jesuit priest stowed away on board Captain John Smith’s ship, as he sailed up the Potomac River sometime around 1606-07, and that this priest had ties all the way back to the Knights Templar. The legend states that he had the Grail for years in England and Europe, possibly taken from #7 when treasure seekers started looking for Arthur’s grave.
Somehow the Grail passed down to this nameless priest, who fled for environs where few people would care about the Grail. Its location in the Accokeek area is not known. Rosslyn Chapel Roslin, Scotland Glastonbury Tor Genoa, Italy. Top 10 Declassified Secrets. Politics [WARNING: this list contains images that may offend] This is a list of secret projects that have since been found to be true in light of released (either officially, or unofficially) documents. Some have long been the source of conspiracy theories while others have been accepted by the mainstream as real. In no particular order: Churchill and Hitler’s Execution Sir Winston Churchill, Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, planned to execute Adolf Hitler in the electric chair if the Nazi leader fell into Allied hands.
Declassified documents reveal that Churchill was opposed to Allied plans for war crimes trials and wanted summarily to execute leading Nazi figures including Hitler who he regarded as “the mainspring of evil” and a “gangster”, and was also content to see Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi starve to death during a hunger strike in 1943. One idea seriously considered involved the launch of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. The Templars and the Vatican. Top 10 Mysteries of Outer Space. Mysteries Since the beginning of life, man has looked to the stars with a sense of wonder. Between then and now, many advances have been made in the fields of astronomy, mathematics, and physics in an attempt to explain the things we see above, yet the more we believe we understand, the less we really seem to know.
In something as big as the universe, there are bound to be unexplainable phenomena, and things we truly can’t grasp. The universe shows us how small we really are, and in a place so big, is it really plausible to believe that we are alone? Simulacrum in Eagle Nebula One of the strangest photos that has ever been taken of space is that of the Eagle Nebula. Where did galaxies come from? Science has only recently been able to explain where the stars and planets came from. Our star, the sun, is just one of trillions in the universe. Are there Other Universes? This is one of the more controversial arguments out there. UFO sightings by NASA Astronauts Jamie Frater. Top 10 Strange and Unique Forests. Weird Stuff Forests cover approximately 9.4% of the Earth’s surface. However, they once covered over 50%. Most people identify forests with trees, but the concept of the forest ecosystem reaches much further and includes many species, such as smaller plants, fungi, bacteria, insects, animals, as well as energy flow and nutrient cycling.
Luckily, a large percentage of people on Earth are still able to enjoy the tranquility of an ancient forest. However, some people have never had the chance to enter one of these majestic plant communities. In fact, almost 80% of Europe’s forests are owned by Russia. As you step foot into an old growth forest, the rush of fresh air fills your lungs. North Sentinel Island Forest North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The Sentinelese tribe consists of 50 to 400 individuals. During the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, North Sentinel Island was greatly damaged. The Red Forest still holds some unnatural behavior.