Disasters
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Hindenburg Disaster
On May 6, 1937, the golden age of airship travel comes to an end. During a landing in severe thunderstorms at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, the Hindenburg bursts into flames and crashes. The tragedy brought an end to the popularity of Zeppelin airship travel and the common use of hydrogen as fuel. Hydrogen is now making a comeback as a component for cell phone towers, forklifts and even aircraft tugs. Source Hindenburg Facts At 803.8 feet in length and 135.1 feet in diameter, the German passenger airship Hindenburg (LZ-129) was the largest aircraft ever to fly. The commercial flights of Hindenburg, along with Graf Zeppelin, pioneered…
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The Top Ten US Killer Tornadoes
The Top Ten US Killer Tornadoes The United States gets about 1000 recorded tornadoes every year. Today, only a few are killers, but that has not always been so. About 200 US tornadoes have killed 18 or more people. Of those, about 150 occurred in the 70 year period between 1879 and 1949. There have been about 45 tornadoes since 1950 that have killed 18 or more people. In the 1950s, there were 18 tornadoes that killed 18 or more people. In the 1960s, there were 12 tornadoes that killed 18 or more people. In the 1970s,there were 11 tornadoes that killed 18 or more people. And in the 1980s,…
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Kids’ History Corner by 4th grader Lindsey
Hey kids, guess what i learned at school today! I learned about the dust bowl.It included parts of Colorado,Kansas,Oklahoma,New Mexico and Texas.
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Historic Earthquakes in Japan
Developing News: Tokyo, Monday 19:18 (PST, Monday 11:18 – GMT, Monday 10:19) It’s gone from bad to worse for Japan. The official death toll has now reached near 1,700, and there is news of 2,000 more dead bodies being found near the Miyagi Prefecture. The radiation threat is also becoming a scare among the people after the third explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, even though the authorities say that there has been no major radiation leak as of yet. The rescue operations continue, and by now more than 15,000 people have been rescued.
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Earthquakes from Another Time
The 8.9 earthquake that rocked Japan is comparable to the one that shook Japan in 1933 and was the same magnitude that shook Colombia and Equador in 1906. North America borders along the Pacific Rim where plates converge causing the earth to move. On Good Friday March 27, 1964 the largest earthquake struck America at Prince William Sound near Anchorage, Alaska measuring 8.5 on the Richter scale. A survivor of that terrifying experience now lives in Oklahoma City. Some 153 years earlier, the largest inland quake to strike was at New Madrid, Missouri was between December 16, 1811 and April, 1812 that Scientist believe would register at 8.0 had the…