Thirty years on, Bhopal is famous for that epochal event — the Bhopal Gas Tragedy — the worlds worst chemical and industrial disaster.
Here are some front pages of newspapers around the country, showing very first breaking Titanic news on the night she sank... much of it tragically wrong.
Dark tourism is any sort of tourism that involves visiting places where some of the darkest events of human history have unfolded.
L'éruption du Vésuve en 79 fut une tragédie : alors que l'on croyait le volcan éteint en dépit d'un...
See what it looked like inside the Titanic - interiors of the fancy lounges, dining rooms, first-class cabins and other luxuries - before the ship sunk in 1912.
On the centennial of the capsizing of SS Eastland, which claimed 844 lives, look back at the deadliest disaster in Chicago history.
Here are some front pages of newspapers around the country, showing very first breaking Titanic news on the night she sank... much of it tragically wrong.
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Like Hollywood at the end of the 20th century, artists at the beginning took some liberties with the facts. Art: Willy Stöwer, The Sinking of the Titanic 1912: Man’s technological hubris hits an iceberg and sinks, literally, as the RMS Titanic founders on its maiden voyage. The liner, in many ways state of the art […]
We have had assumptions about the academic book market that probably are just not true.
Sunday, August 29, 2010 will mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in Louisiana. Five years ago, Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, centered on New Orleans, as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h). More than fifty levees were breached by its storm surge, causing massive flooding. Over 1,800 Gulf Coast residents lost their lives then, and damages totaled more than $80 billion - the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. Many intangible things were damaged then as well, communities were erased as their neighborhoods washed away, much of historic New Orleans was badly damaged, and frustration and anger remain towards an inadequate immediate response by the U.S. government. Collected here are images from five years ago, as well as some from the past few weeks, in New Orleans and the surrounding area.
Everest’s entrenched commercial climbing culture has returned to the world’s tallest mountain.
Shivering survivors, grief-stricken relatives waiting on the docks and shock in the White Star Line offices: a pictorial record of the world receiving news that the ‘unsinkable’ ship had done the unthinkable.
Has the Heysel stadium disaster, which unfolded 30 years ago, become English football's forgotten tragedy?
On the night of December 2nd, 1984, a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, began leaking 27 tons of the deadly gas methyl isocyanate.
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The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in...
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
King Henry I of England was an extremely fertile king who had anywhere from a dozen to nearly twenty-five illegitimate children, but only one legitimate male heir, William Aetheling. Aetheling was …
On This Day in History! December 3, 1984 – Deadly ‘Bhopal Gas tragedy’ leads to death of 3,787 people
Photographs -- most of them never published in LIFE magazine -- made in Hiroshima after the end of the Second World War.
Seven astronauts died when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry on Feb. 1, 2003. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy looks back on the tragedy and how it shaped the agency.
A community was betrayed by the failures of the National Coal Board
It changed this state forever.
