Whether natural or man-made, disasters simultaneously cause massive destruction and unity of people trying to help those in need. Discover some of the world's worst disasters in this collection.
More Americans died of Spanish Flu in October, 1918, than in any other month that the virus plagued the world. This document, from the Otis Arch...
This memo, discussing SRB (Solid Rocket Booster) Critical Items, reports on concerns about O-ring failures. On the cause of a failure mode, the ...
This 17 December 1982 memo, discussing SRB (Solid Rocket Booster) Critical Items, reports on O-ring failures in a test mode: ...O-ring can withstan...
Bookcover image of Stalingrad: The Fateful siege 1942 - 1943, by Anthony Beevor.
STATEMENT OF SERGEANT GEORGE E. ELLIOTT, HEADQUARTERS COMPANY, STATION COMPLEMENT; CAMP LEE, VA. (The witness was sworn by the Recorder and advised ...
Bookcover image of The Field Guide to North American Monsters, by W. Haden Blackman.
What is the subject of this novel? It is something which Dostoevsky understood firsthand since the story portrays life in a Siberian penal colony (not...
Bookcover image of Life of Lord Kitchener (Volume Two), by Sir George Arthur.
Britain imposed "Penal Laws" on Irish Catholics in 1704. This image highlights some of the more onerous laws which adversely impacted Irish-Cath...
Bookcover image of The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virgin...
Image of the German ship Steuben, which was torpedoed and sunk by the Russian submarine S-13 on February 9, 1945.
Image of a song sheet called The Wife's Lament, a New Temperance Song, by Archibald Scott. This song was sung to the tune of a familiar Air: De...
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