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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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Black death
The term quarantine was coined as a result of the Black Death.
Although the first isolations were used in ancient times, the term trentine appeared in 1377 near Ra ...
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Kyshtym disaster
Only after the Chernobyl reactor explosion in 1986 did the Soviets begin to reduce the amount of waste poured into Lake Karachay.
They also began to backfill the lake. However, they did it very ineptly and explained it by lack of ...
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Black death
An Oriental rat flea infected with plague bacteria quickly experienced a blockage of the anterior intestine due to the biofilm produced by the bacterium.
The blockage of the digestive tract increased the insect's hunger and activity. While feeding on the host, the plague bacilli entered its system and the infection spread.
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Dyatlov Pass incident
The group had originally planned to bypass Mount Kholat Syakhl.
Most likely, it was Igor Dyatlov who decided to change the route. To wait out the deteriorating weat ...
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Kyshtym disaster
From the very beginning, the reactor at the Mayak complex faced a number of problems.
Inadequate cooling of the reactor caused the fuel to fuse with graphite. Pressure from Stalin meant ...
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Dyatlov Pass incident
The theory also explains why investigators failed to establish the truth.
Further strands of this theory assumed that search groups had been infiltrated. Their members skillfully diverted attention from certain traces, and obliterated some of them.
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Mohenjo-daro
At its best, the Indus civilization encompassed much of what is today Pakistan and northern India.
It stretched west to the border with Iran, south to Gujarat (a state on the west coast of India) in India, and north to Bactria (an ancient region of Central Asia).
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Medieval world
The Middle Ages brought two deadly epidemics to Europe.
The first, the Plague of Justinian, struck the Old Continent between 541 and 542, when it arrived in ...
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Masada
After its expansion, Masada was regarded as the most powerful of all the fortresses in Judea.
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Mali Empire
Imperial Malian architecture was characterized by Sudano-Sahelian architecture with a Malian sub-style - an example is the Great Mosque at Djenne.
This style is characterized by the use of basic earth materials. Another common, defining feature of ...
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39 facts about Dyatlov Pass incident
39 facts about Dyatlov Pass incident
Mysterious tragedy in the Ural mountains
The case of a group of students at the Ural Polytechnical Institute in Sverdlovsk continues to arouse great interest and raise many questions. A group ...
31 facts about Battle of Thermopylae
31 facts about Battle of Thermopylae
Stand to gain
One of the most famous invasions in the history of the ancient world. In the narrow isthmus of Thermopylae, the proud Spartans put up a fierce resista ...
25 facts about Troy
25 facts about Troy
A forgotten ancient city returned to history from mythology
Troy is a famous ancient city, best known for the war described by Homer.  There were many settlements in its area, which fell into decline only to be ...
21 facts about Mali Empire
21 facts about Mali Empire
The medieval state of the Mandé peoples
The origins of Mali's empire date back to the early 13th century, when the country's first ruler won a victory at the Battle of Kuolikoro and took con ...
15 facts about Black death
15 facts about Black death
The Great Plague
Although the disease produced black necrotic tissue, people living at the time of the pandemic referred to it as "the great plague," "the great scourg ...
25 facts about Medieval world
25 facts about Medieval world
Despite appearances, it was a colorful and dynamic period of world history
Many people imagine the Middle Ages as a time of total asceticism, lack of education and extreme piety. In reality, it was a time of political intrigu ...
19 facts about Masada
19 facts about Masada
Masada is Israel's Thermopylae, a symbol of heroic resistance to the very end
The ancient fortress located on the Dead Sea was the site of bloody battles between Jewish insurgents and the Romans. The Zealots' attitude in defendi ...
32 facts about Jamestown
32 facts about Jamestown
The first permanent British colony in New World
Although it has not been the first attempt to establish a colony in North America, Jamestown is the first permanent British settlement in the present ...
26 facts about Mohenjo-daro
26 facts about Mohenjo-daro
The mound of the dead men
More than five thousand years ago, in the Indus Valley (now Pakistan), there was a mysterious civilization, called the Indus Civilization. It was one ...
18 facts about ancient Sumer
18 facts about ancient Sumer
The mysterious people of antiquity
We know little about them, but what we have established makes you dizzy. A people of unknown origin who created a civilization that was the cradle of ...
20 facts about Axum Empire
20 facts about Axum Empire
One of the most advanced ancient civilizations
The Axum Empire was one of the most remarkable powers of the ancient world. Located in the northern part of modern Ethiopia and Eritrea, it once domin ...