FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The final number of dead in the Surfside condo collapse was devastating: 98 lives lost. But at one point it seemed the number could go much higher. On June 29, five days after the collapse, the number of missing was pegged at more than 150 people.Read More →
There are serious risks associated with the extreme conditions people face if they try to travel in the undercarriage of a plane. These include being crushed when landing gear retracts, frostbite, hearing loss, tinnitus and acidosis – the build-up of acid in body fluids which can cause coma or death.Read More →
The most common Civil War surgery was the amputation of an extremity and this was usually accomplished in about 10 minutes. First-person reports and photographic documentation confirm the mounds of discarded limbs outside Civil War field hospitals. What amputation had the highest death rate in the Civil War? Hip amputations,Read More →
Cardigan survived the battle, although stories circulated that he was not actually present. He led the charge from the front, never looking back, and did not see what was happening to the troops behind him. What was the blunder in the Charge of the Light Brigade? The Light Brigade wasRead More →
People have even survived after coming in contact with the third rail, as long as they are not touching the running rail and third rail at the same time, he said. “When people are really smoked down there, it’s when you hit a running rail and the third rail atRead More →