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Dec 5, 2018 · A decade after a fatal lab safety disaster, what have we learned? This month marks 10 years since Sheharbano "Sheri" Sangji undertook her last experiment. On 29 December 2008, the 23-year-old lab technician tried to transfer a small quantity of tert -Butyllithium, which ignites on contact with air. The attempt ended in a fiery catastrophe; she ...
Aug 20, 2021 · Published Aug 20, 2021. Pan Am aircraft at JFK Airport with WTC visible, New York, New York, December 22, 1988. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/Getty Images) The Tenerife Airport Disaster is known for being the deadliest accident in commercial aviation history. The collision between two Boeing 747s, belonging to KLM and Pan Am, resulted in the ...
Mar 14, 2018 · March 14, 2018 1:52 PM EDT. T he world lost one of its most brilliant scientific minds Wednesday, when legendary physicist Stephen Hawking died at age 76. Hawking’s cause of death was likely ...
Nov 1, 2011 · The March 11, 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan replicates the bullet points of most recent industrial disasters. It is outstanding in its magnitude, perhaps surpassing Chernobyl in its effects, but in most other respects, it simply indicates the risks that we run when we allow high concentrations of energy ...
May 10, 2012 · Thirty-five of the 97 people on board perished in the disaster. Then the finger-pointing began. From the very start, observers disagreed about what exactly sparked the explosion and what caused it ...
Dec 3, 2020 · 5. Charles Krauthammer. The last of the famous people in wheelchairs we will mention is the late Charles Krauthammer, who died in June 2018 at age 68. He was an inspiration and a political thought leader to people around the United States and world. He was a Fox News commentator, journalist, author, and the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize.
May 4, 2012 · However, the deadliest incident occurred when the helium-filled USS Akron, a U.S. Navy airship, crashed off the coast of New Jersey in a severe storm on April 4, 1933. Seventy-three men were ...
