The 'Sultana' was carrying some 2,000 freed Union soldiers from Confederate prisons when three of its four boilers blew, sending the ship into flame and chaos.On April 27, 1865, the United States experiences its worst maritime disaster in history. Mere weeks after the Civil War came to an end, the steamboat, Sultana exploded and sank in the Mississippi River, killing an estimated 1,200 to 1,800 Union soldiers who were released from prison and on their way home. Read More...
Though only tests, some of the very explosions depicted here in fact resulted in devastating human and environmental casualties. Operation Hardtack I – Nutmeg at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. May 22, 1958. What was once some of the most guarded and top-secret footage on Earth is now freely available to all on YouTube.
This week, the federally funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California released 62 newly declassified and restored films of U. Read More...
On February 12, 2014, the floor of Kentucky's Skydome disappeared, taking several classic cars with it. See photos of the infamous Corvette Museum sinkhole.On February 12, 2014, the floor of the National Corvette Museum’s Skydome disappeared into a sinkhole, taking several classic cars with it. While, fortunately, nobody was hurt, the damage was in many cases too severe for repairs. Below, you can see the extent of the devastation, and the attempts to rescue the demolished vehicles from the maw of the infamous Corvette Museum sinkhole: Read More...
