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Britain practiced the death penalty by hanging for a long time. It's a quick and clean way to deliver justice. It is also effective. It is indeed rare that the condemned person survives strangulation by the weight of his own body. But it happen
On October 1st 1769, Isabel Godin des Odonais left her Peruvian hacienda and went deep into the jungle. She was to join her husband in Guyana, whom she had not seen him for twenty years. The expedition had 41 members, including 31 native porter
On July 21st, 1969, man walked on the Moon. It was the space age, but sometimes, space exploration turned into a disaster. In 1970, the Apollo 13 mission flew to our satellite but never reached its goal: an explosion forced the astronauts to ch
The Australian bush is a terribly inhospitable place. Driving through it, why not, but getting lost without food and water is far less appealing. Yet that's what happened to a 35-year-old Australian man who survived 71 days of wandering through
Japan and the United States ar at war. To force a Japanese resistance, the Americans choose to use atomic weapons. They drop an atom bomb named Little Boy on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, then a second bomb, Fat Man on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945
A human body immersed in water that’s frozen at the surface can survive for about 10 minutes. The freezing cold water quickly absorbs body heat, and the metabolism can only resist this thermal shock for a short time. And yet, young Jimmy Tontle
No one who has seen Danelle Ballengee can call women “the weaker sex”. She is a great athlete who accumulates challenges and victories. She runs marathons, winter triathlons and mountain races. In 1998, she finishes seventh in the New Zealand I
In the month of May 1902, agitation reigns in Saint-Pierre de la Martinique. Mount Pelee has awakened and despite the signs of an imminent eruption, the governor refuses to evacuate the city : in a few days, elections will be held, and he does
There are places on Earth where you should not get sick. But you can’t choose the day and time to have an attack of appendicitis ! Newly certified doctor Leonid Rogozov spent the winter of 1961 in the Antarctic. Far, far away from any medical a
In 1971, Angus Barbieri entered the Guiness Book of World Records for going 382 days without eating. Incredible... Still today, doctors contend that a human being cannot remain more than 80 days without absorbing food, and yet this Scotsman las
On this particular day, Salt Lake City's emergency services call on Sergeant Mitch Vetere. Accustomed to rescuing lost hikers, he goes to the scene they tell him of without any anxiety. In his 35 years of service however, he has never experienc
It's September 2nd 2021. A family reports the disappearance of their little boy, Anthony, in the community of Putty, in New South Wales, Australia. Quickly, law enforcement sets up a strategy to find this little tot, but it's not going to be ea
Obeying the orders of a superior in the army? Yes! But for how long? This is the question that Hiroo Onoda, born in Kamekawa, Japan, on March 19th 1922, should have asked himself. Growing up with his six brothers and sisters, he began working a
You can be a hero at any age, at least that is what Saroo Brierley, whose real name is Sheru Munshi Khan, teaches us through his story. Born into a very poor family in Khandwa, India, to a father who forced his mother to work in public works an
On June 29th 2009, Bahia Bakari, 12 years old, gets on a plane for the first time in her life. Accompanied by her mother, she takes off from Paris to go to the Comoros. Unfortunately, the Airbus A310-300 of the company Yemenia Airways will neve
The doctor and biologist Alain Bombard, 30 years old, decides to prove 2 things to the world. Firstly, that a human being can live at sea, on a lifeboat without food, without water, with only a tent, a sextant, a fishing line, a net and a knife
The place is Sweden. A few miles from the town of Umeå, close to the Arctic Circle. This municipality is the twelfth largest city in the region and is also known as the capital of Norrland. Two men are riding along on their snowmobile. The temp
Jack Churchill graduated from the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, England, in 1926. He left the army in 1936 to become an editor for a daily newspaper in Kenya. Then he branched off into modelling, and even film acting. Indeed, his mastery
Some people believe everything that happens in the world has been written in advance. If that’s true, then this titanic story hasn’t finished making the rounds! It all began in Southampton on April 10, 1912. Edmond and Michel, natives of Nice i
In 2013, Nigerian Harrison Okene was working as a cook on a tugboat: along with other vessels, his boat was working to help a supertanker 30km off the coast of Nigeria. The only problem was a storm. In the early morning of a new day of manoeuve
This American woman had already made about thirty parachute jumps when she jumped out of a plane on September 25, 1999, at an altitude of nearly 4400 meters. However, when she realized that her parachute was defective, she struggled to get rid
Here is the story of Julian Koepcke : on December 24th, 1971, on board a Peruvian domestic flight, the then 17- year-old girl's life is about to be turned upside down. Juliane and her mother are on their way to join her father at a scientific r
Born in 1918 on a Chinese island, Poon Lim is a young man when the Second World War breaks out. In 1942, he works on a British merchant ship carrying goods across the Atlantic. The ship has left South Africa, heading for Suriname, also known as
The date is October 12th 1972, and the rugby team from Montevideo - the capital of Uruguay - is on its way to Chile with the staff and families of the players to play a friendly match. Due to bad weather conditions, the plane makes a stopover i
In the world of ultra trail, the Marathon des sables is one of the most famous races but also one of the most feared. Due of its extreme length - nearly 150 miles - the MdS is completed in 6 timed stages spread over 7 days. Moreover, the Sahara
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