Vintage Memories That Make You Go AAH!
Thai Airways International Flight 311, an Airbus A310-304 hit the side of a hill 23 miles north of Kathmandu while descending towards Tribhuvan International Airport from Bangkok.
Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (SET: THAI) is the national air carrier of Thailand, operating out of Suvarnabhumi Airport, and is a founding member of the Star […]
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On July 31, 1987, a devastating tornado, ranked as an F4 on the Fujita scale, hit the city and killed twenty-seven people.
Edmonton is the capital of the province of Alberta, making it the seat of the provincial Crown. It is on the North Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province, an […]
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) or lunar rover was a type of surface exploration rover used on the Moon during the Apollo program. It is also known by its popular nickname of moon buggy. Three of the Apollo missions brought LRVs to the Moon.
LRVs were used for greater surface mobility during the Apollo […]
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Ranger 7 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact.
The spacecraft carried six television vidicon cameras, 2 wide angle (channel F, cameras A and B) and 4 narrow angle (channel P) to accomplish these objectives. […]
Jim Laker set an extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test of taking nineteen wickets in a first-class match (the previous best was seventeen).
James Charles Laker was a cricketer who played for England in the 1950s, most famous for “Laker’s match” in 1956 at Old Trafford, when he took nineteen wickets […]
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K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth. It is located in the Karakoram segment of the Himalayan range, on the border between the Gilgit-Baltistan region of the Pakistan administered Northern Areas and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China.
An Italian expedition finally succeeded in ascending to the summit of K2 on […]
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John K. Giles was born in 1895. He was sentenced to Alcatraz on May 11, 1935 for attempted robbery of the Denver and Rio Grande Western mail train. He had previously been serving life in Oregon for murder before escaping.
On 31st July 1945, at 10:40 a.m., the Army launch General Frank M. Coxe […]
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Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
Pierre Laval was a French politician and four times Prime Minister, the third and fourth times being under the
Vichy government.
After World War II he was convicted of high treason and executed.
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The Final Solution to the Jewish Question refers to the German Nazis’ plan to engage in systematic genocide against the European Jewish population during World War II.
The term was coined by Adolf Eichmann, a top Nazi official who supervised the genocidal campaign and was captured, shipped across the Atlantic Ocean from Argentina (where he […]
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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California.
As a young man, Schwarzenegger gained widespread attention as a highly successful Bodybuilder. He later gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon.
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