Curiosities

Not always it was easy to guess if a corpse were really dead

Not always it was easy to guess if a corpse were really dead

To determine if the deads were in fact dead was an amazing and inexact science before the coming of the modern medicine. But the fear was not totally irrational. Throughout history there have been numerous cases of buried people cheers accidentally and peculiar legend spoke of open coffins where was a corpse [...]

The strangest death of history

The strangest death of history

Gustav Ferdinand Von Kelps, was a physicist and mathematical German whom the luck to be one of the people with the most extraordinary death of the planet has had. It was born in the city of Nuremberg in 1905, grew up within a family upper middle class. Their parents from stimulated to boy to be developed it inside [...]

Pripyat, a ghost city by the disaster of Chernobyl

Pripyat, a ghost city by the disaster of Chernobyl

Pripyat, located to about two lilómetros of the power station of Chernobyl, is sadly famous for being the protagonist of one of the great disasters of century XX. The 26 of April of 1986 an explosion in its reactor number four took place releasing to enormous amounts of radioactivity (400 times more radiation than the atomic bomb [...]

Devastating effects of a substance similar to the Napalm in one old Russian strength

Devastating effects of a substance similar to the Napalm in one old Russian strength

In these photographies we can be made an idea of the effects that has the Napalm. The reason for the strange aspect of their ceilings and walls is tests realised by the Russian army in one old strength to verify the effect of an alternative to the Napalm within brick buildings. The bricks melt [...]

Gorée, the island of the slaves

Gorée, the island of the slaves

The Island of Gorée, declared Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO, is located against the coast of Senegal, country to which belongs, three kilometers of Dakar, the capital. In the past, it belonged to the Portuguese, the Dutch, English and the French.
One became, for more than three centuries, in one of [...]

The impressive history of the lightning rods human

The impressive history of the lightning rods human

The probability of taking the hit of a ray is very small. To receive two unloadings throughout the life of a human being, and to live to count it, are practically impossible. Nevertheless, guardaparques Roy Sullivan has broken all the records to the salary survived the impact of a ray in seven occasions!
Is very strange [...]