Miracles of Nature. The Most Unusual Natural Phenomena in the World!

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Darvaz — “The Gates of Hell”.
This phenomenon is nothing but a large gas crater in the middle of the desert. And the person is to blame. Once, during excavations, geologists discovered underground voids. They decided to dig deeper, as a result of which — a huge hole formed, from which then gas began to come out. In order not to frighten the local population, they decided to set fire to gas, but they could not know that there were gas deposits in this hole, which in the end still burns. This 60-meter hole is still burning. That’s why this place is called the «Gates of Hell.»

Cars for Export in the USSR

“Volga”, “Moskvitch” and “Lada” managed to see this world beyond the borders of their native country. Soviet cars were quite successfully exported even before the start of the war to countries such as Turkey, the Baltic states and others. In this collection, we will tell you about all the cars that were successfully used not only by russian people, but also by other people ...

Al Capone`s Prison

The world's first correctional prison in Philadelphia, with the full name of Eastern State Penitentiary, first received a prisoner in 1829. For more than 100 years of work, a lot of villains and criminals were there, one of which was the well-known mafia boss Al Capone. How was this place different from other prisons and what does it look like now? More on this later ...

11 Disaster Films Based on Real Events

Often, exciting stories from catastrophe films turn out to be real events based on the fates of real people and the stories of real incidents. Such films will be discussed in this collection, which contains the best pictures based on completely existing disasters of anthropogenic or natural character.