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.
Sixty kilometers above the states of Louisiana and Texas, the space shuttle Columbia began to disintegrate on the morning of February 1, 2003.
Unknown to Columbia's astronauts, orbiter sensors were going offline while observers on the ground recorded something falling away from the shuttle.
After the loss of Columbia, NASA uses launch cameras to observe whether foam, shedding off the External Tank, will strike the orbiter.
Because English ships could not easily penetrate the Spanish crescent formation, the Brits had to use different tactics to attack the Armada.
As Britain's ships are stuck in Plymouth Harbor, awaiting a turn of the tide and wind direction, Spanish ships pass by. They have been ordered, by the...
It is the 29th of July, 1588, and a huge fleet of ships - known as the Spanish Armada - approaches the English Channel. The future of Britain hangs in...
As ships of the Spanish Armada continued to make their way east, in the English Channel, neither side had harmed the other. Although two Spanish...
As an unfavorable wind began pushing Spanish ships toward the sand banks of Flanders, priests on board ship began hearing the sailors' last confession...
After a great deal of research into the deadly flu virus which killed so many people throughout the world, between 1918-19, scientists are still not...
Clip from a documentary comparing the Spanish-Flu pandemic, during 1918-1919, with today's health-care capabilities.
In the midst of World War I, another devastation - "Spanish Flu" - infected people throughout the world.
Ukrainian farmers and their families die, by the millions, as a result of Stalin's policies enforced against them. They are left with no grain to sell...
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