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- Hindenburg Disaster
The 2001 documentary Hindenburg Disaster: Probable Cause suggested another theory. A 16-year-old boy had smelled what he described as gasoline when he was standing below the Hindenburg's aft port engine. During the investigation, commander Charles Rosendahl dismissed this clue. Some have suggested he had smelled diesel fuel, which could have leaked and could have created highly flammable oil vapor that could have ignited the ship. They ... suggested that overheating engines may have played a role in the theory. This theory is thought by some to be misleading because it may have misinterpreted the statements by the crewmen of the lower fin. The show thought the crewmen saw a flash in the keel catwalk, when in reality they saw something in the axial catwalk. - Hindenburg Disaster -- Americas
To appreciate the Hindenburg disaster, you have to know a little bit about the time period. The Hindenburg was a massive dirigible built in 1936. There are no dirigibles in widespread use today, but at the time the dirigible was a fairly common way to travel long distances in luxury. This is one reason that the Hindenburg disaster was so interesting -- dirigible travel was something for rich people in the 1930s, in the same way that the Supersonic Concorde was a way for rich people to travel in the 1980s. If you needed to get from Europe to America in the 1930s, the normal way to do it was on a boat. The crossing took about a week at 20 to 30 knots. - Hindenburg Disaster -- Theories
The Hindenburg disaster has been the subject of many books, movies, and television programs. Some of the best books about the airship include Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships by Harold Dick and Douglas Robinson as well as Rick Archbold's Hindenburg: An Illustrated History with fantastic illustrations by Ken Marschall. Though difficult to find, perhaps the best source promoting the sabotage theory is A. A. Hoehling's Who Destroyed the Hindenburg?. - Titanic -- Titanic Disaster
Though the topic is seldom discussed, there is some speculation as to whether Titanic was constructed by methods considered sufficiently robust by the standards of the day. In the documentary series Seconds from Disaster, this was investigated further. Rumoured faults in the construction included problems with the safety doors and missing or detached bolts in the ship's hull plating. This may have been a major contributing factor to the sinking and that the iceberg, in part with the missing bolts and screws, eventually led to the demise of Titanic. Possibly, if the watertight bulkheads had completely sealed the ship's compartments (they only went 3 m above the waterline), the ship would have stayed afloat. - Vampira
The woman who would become Vampira was born Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi on December 11, 1921, in Petsamo, Finland. The young Maila and her family moved to the United States two years later, settling in a Finnish-American community in Ohio. Claiming that world-class Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi ("The Flying Finn") was her uncle, Maila took his surname as her own when she moved to New York at the age of 17 with dreams of breaking into show business. - Henry Fonda -- Actors
Henry Fonda movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more. - Macbeth -- Hands
Lady Macbeth becomes racked with guilt from the crimes she and her husband have committed. In a famous scene she sleepwalks and tries to wash imaginary bloodstains from her hands, all the while speaking of the terrible things she knows. - Abbey Theatre -- April Ireland
THE Abbey Theatre is currently in a state of chassis, to take Sean O'Casey's immortal words in vain. It's closed, and the interior has been ripped out. When it opens again on April 10, three quarters of a million euro will have been spent on a new configuration for the auditorium. And there is very little doubt thatthe money will have beenvery well spent . . . in theshort term. - Krakatoa -- Eruptions
The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa is among the most violent volcanic events in modern times (a VEI of 6, equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT - about 13000 times the yield of the Little Boy bomb which devastated Hiroshima, Japan). Concussive air waves from the explosions traveled seven times around the world, and the sky was darkened for days afterwards. Waves from the tsunamis were recorded as far away as the English Channel. The explosion is considered to be the loudest noise ever heard by man[citation needed]. - Bhopal -- Union Carbide
Bhopal is the worst industrial disaster in history, and the blame for it lies squarely at the door of Union Carbide. Safety measures designed to prevent a gas leak were either malfunctioning--or shut down to save on costs. The factory's warning safety siren was turned off--guaranteeing that there would be many more victims who were overcome without warning.