Posts Tagged ‘disasters’

Put things into perspective with our new “Disaster of the Day” iPhone app

In All Posts on 23 August 2010 tagged Apple store, disasters, iphone app with no comments

If you read this blog regularly, you know that we write about disasters somewhat frequently.  We’ve written about disasters that have low notoriety but high death counts, strange but true disasters and disasters that sound like one thing but turn out to be another.  Disasters are unique events that capture the imagination and become part [...]

Five Strange-But-True Disasters

In All Posts on 18 August 2010 tagged aeroflot, beer, boston, disasters, fireworks, france, london, molasses, the netherlands with no comments

Disasters have a unique way of capturing our attention. The Titanic, the Hindenburg, the Chicago Fire, the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii- they are all well known and hold a strong place in our memory.  On Timelines.com, there are over 500 disasters chronicled. When you glance through this list, some jump [...]

A plane crashes into the world’s tallest building. September 2001? No, July 1945

In All Posts on 13 May 2010 tagged bomber, disasters, empire state building, NYC with no comments

If I asked you to name an incident in which a plane crashed into the world’s tallest building, you’d probably name the World Trade Center terrorist attacks that happened on September 11, 2001.  Well, another event that fits this description happened 56 years earlier.  I was unaware of  this until a few days ago.

On July [...]

High death counts, low notoriety – 7 massive disasters known by few

In All Posts on 23 October 2009 tagged disasters, explosions, fires, molasses, sinkings with 2 comments

It never ceases to shock me when I hear about a past disaster – especially a big past disaster – for the first time. It shocks me for the obvious reasons: massive loss of life and property, and the tragedy of it all. But it also causes me to ask, “Why haven’t I [...]