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On 31 July 1954, two Italian men were getting closer to the summit of K-2.
Apollo 13 Command Module Pilot Thomas K. Mattingly never made the Apollo 13 Mission because he was exposed to German Measles. That actually turned out...
Not a trained radar analyst, Kermit Tyler, was nevertheless on duty during December 7, 1941 bombing at Pearl Harbor. Does he deserve blame for not re...
The Hubble Space Telescope took this stunning image of the Keyhole Nebula (which is located within the Carina Nebula [NGC 3372] and is about 8,000 lig...
After Krakatoa's stupendous explosion - on the 27th of August, 1883 - the volcano spewed out another monstrous pyroclastic flow.
Learn about the final minutes leading up to Krakatoa's fourth explosion.
Krakatoa's tremendous volcanic eruption causes a devastating tsunami on August 26, 1883. It also produces the loudest-ever-reported sound when the isl...
Professor van Musschenbroek, from Leiden University, conducts a world-changing experiment which gives him a massive electric shock.
Leyden Jars are used by many experimenters in the 18th century, including Benjamin Franklin who proposes (and conducts) experiments to understand how ...
The Gulf of Mexico area contains a significant amount of America's crude-oil reserves.
Allan Loughead was an American aviator pioneer. By 1912, he was sure he could make a better plane than the planes he'd been flying.
Allan Loughead was an American aviator pioneer. He, together with his brother Malcolm, developed plans and specs for one of the world's first sea-plan...
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