Large-Scale Tragedies… The Largest Accidents in the USSR That Did Not Receive Publicity

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The collision of passenger aircrafts over Dneprodzerzhinsk, 1979. One of the biggest football crashes of the time. One plane operated a flight Tashkent — Minsk. On board were 83 people, including 17 members of the Pakhtakor football team. The second plane followed the route Chelyabinsk — Voronezh — Chisinau, which had 89 passengers and 6 crew members on board. As a result of the error of air traffic controllers, two TU-134 aircrafts collided at a height.

Is Sugar as Bad as We Think?

In this collection we will try to answer a very controversial and ubiquitous scandalous question: is sugar really harmful, as people think about it? Is it true that sugar consumption can cause diseases such as diabetes and cancer? Does sugar contribute to weight gain and obesity? We will try to answer these and many other questions about the sweet product right now ...

The 7 Worst Epidemics in Human History

The new year 2020 began with the advent of a new virus in the Chinese city of Wuhan. To date, coronavirus has claimed about 100 lives and continues to test people for strength. The history of mankind has repeatedly known extremely dangerous viruses and epidemics, which claimed millions of lives, wreaking havoc on the trail of panic and chaos. But even the worst of all infections, people managed to win and live on ... exactly until the next outbreak of some mutated flu.

Age is Not a Hindrance: 10 Examples of Stylish Old Women

We live in an amazing time when not only young girls of 20-30 years old can be fashionable, but also elderly ladies, whom even the language does not dare to call "grandmothers". At the age of 60, they bloom with renewed vigor and, despite the graying curls, are not going to close at home and crochet, but quite the opposite - they live in a way that sometimes even young youth themselves do not live.

17 Frozen Reservoirs That Look Like Fine Art

Every year, when the temperature drops below zero, most rivers, ponds, lakes and even some oceans are covered with a thick layer of impenetrable ice, forming on their surface either snow patterns or masterpieces of fine art. Such beauty cannot be described in words, so we have prepared for you this selection of 17 photos so that you can fully enjoy these icy views and anticipate the coming frosts ...