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Monday, 18 May 2026
42 facts about Kyshtym disaster
42 facts about Kyshtym disaster
The first nuclear accident in Earth's history
Before information about it saw the light of day, the Soviets hid it for over 30 years. The explosion at the Mayak combine was the first nuclear accid ...

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Dyatlov Pass incident
During the search, a map was drawn up, on which all the critical points were located.
We learn from it that at a distance of about 1.5 kilometers from the tent down the slope there was a ...
Medieval world
The medieval revision of the calendar and the introduction of anno Domini.
Before the year 525, the years were counted from the foundation of Rome, according to the rules of t ...
Dyatlov Pass incident
Yuri Doroshenko and Georgy Yuri Krivonishchenko were found in just their underwear.
The cause of death for both was hypothermia. According to the official autopsy report, both had fros ...
Dyatlov Pass incident
At the entrance to the pass, a monument was erected to honor the dead tourists.
The four-meter sculpture is located about 50 meters from the place where the tent of the Dyatlov gro ...
Black death
It was the second plague epidemic to sweep through Europe.
The first was the Justinian Plague, which broke out in 451 and continued in successive waves until t ...
Mali Empire
Under Mansa Musa, the center of writing was in Timbuktu.
Timbuktu is a city in Mali, on the Niger River. Founded in the late 11th and early 12th centuries, f ...
Jamestown
The idea of establishing an overseas British colony came from the Virginia Company of London, with the blessing of King James I.
King James I charted the Virginia Company of London in 1606 with the sole goal of colonizing the eas ...
Jamestown
Soon after the arrival of the British, they engaged in a crossfire with the local Indian tribe, the Powhatan.
The Powhatan Indians inhabited eastern Virginia. During the British colonization of 1607, there were ...
Masada
Masada was expanded by Herod the Great around 37 BC. - The fortress was one of his greatest construction successes.
In 40 BC Herod was fleeing from the Parthians (the Parthian kingdom was in ancient Iran) and Antigon ...
Mali Empire
By the end of Musa's reign, Sankore University had become an institution with a full academic staff and the largest collection of books in Africa since the Library of Alexandria.
The university had one of the largest libraries in the world with approximately one million manuscripts.