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DISASTERS of the PAST. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy was a chemical accident on of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh in India. Considered the world's worst industrial disaster, over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate. It was estimated that 8,000 died within two weeks, and another 8,000 or more have since died from gas-related diseases.

       Wikipedia: There are two main lines of argument involving the disaster. The "corporate negligence" point of view argues that the disaster was caused by a potent combination of under-maintained and decaying facilities, a weak attitude towards safety, and an under-trained workforce, culminating in worker actions that inadvertently enabled water to penetrate the MIC tanks in the absence of properly working safeguards. 🩻❌🩻

EVENTS in HISTORY. World War I (1914 – 1918) was fought between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. Tensions started following the assassination by a Bosnian Serb of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on 28 June 1914. WWII resulted in 9 million soldiers dead and 23 million wounded, plus another 5 million civilian deaths. ☮️❤️‍🩹☮️

FORGOTTEN HEROES. Geronimo (1829 – 1909) was an Apache military leader and medicine man. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined other Apache bands to fight against Mexican and U.S. military campaigns in Chihuahua and Sonora and in New Mexico and Arizona. Geronimo's combat actions were a part of the Apache–United States conflict, which started with Americans continuing to take land, including Apache lands, following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848. 🦬🧙‍♀️🦬

FAMOUS ROCK BANDS. The Allman Brothers Band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman, with Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe Johanson. The band incorporated blues, jazz and country music; their live shows featured jam-style improvisations. Duane was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1971, age 24. Gregg died in 2017 from liver cancer, age 69. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. 🎸🎼🎸

PEOPLE of the PAST. Born Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod in 1876 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, Mata Hari (her stage name) was a Dutch exotic dancer who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by firing squad in France. The idea of a beautiful exotic dancer using her powers of seduction as a spy made her name synonymous with the femme fatale. Other sources said she was convicted because the French Army needed a scapegoat. 👩‍🦰👱‍♀️👩‍🦱

TREATIES of the PAST. The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was established as a balance of power or counterweight to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Warsaw Pact was dissolved on 1 July 1991, alongside dissolution of the USSR and end of Cold War. ☮️☮️☮️

INTERESTING FIXTURES. Lighthouse is a tower structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, rocks, and safe entries to harbors; they also assist in aerial navigation. The oldest existing lighthouse is the Tower of Hercules, built in the 1st century and located in Galicia in Spain. 🏖🗼🏝

CULTURAL FESTIVALS. Bodhi Day is the Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that Gautama Buddha or SShakyamuni is said to have attained enlightenment, also known as bodhi in Sanskrit and Pali. According to tradition, Siddhartha had recently forsaken years of extreme ascetic practices and resolved to sit under a peepal tree, also known as a Bodhi tree, and simply meditate until he found the root of suffering, and how to liberate oneself from it. ☮️🎎☯️

DISASTERS of the PAST. The Chernobyl Disaster. One of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR (then USSR). The initial emergency response and subsequent mitigation efforts involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated $68 billion in 2019, adjusted for inflation. 🇺🇦☮️🇷🇺

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