Turkish Airlines Flight 981: DC-10 Cargo Hatch Failure On March 3rd, 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 suffered a catastrophic fuselage failure at an altitude of 23,000 feet and crashed into a wooded area of Ermenonville, France (ASN, 2008). All 346 passengers were killed upon impact (ASN, 2008). The aircraft, a DC-10 built by McDonnell Douglas […]
Date: January 23rd, 2025
Emigration was the very important feature of Irish society for much of its history. Some periods are more associated with emigration than others. For example famine and post famine years. Despite Ireland had long established culture of emigration , the scale of the problem in the 1940s had much bigger influence on the country than […]
Date: January 23rd, 2025
The United States political process is well developed and advanced, yet sometimes overlooked. However, we have the power to pick our own leaders and to vote on our own laws, a power some societies do not have. The founding fathers used ideas from the Greek and Roman Governments and incorporated them into the United States […]
Date: January 23rd, 2025
Colonial powers began as early as the first decades of the sixteenth century. From the 16th century until the 20th century, the major colonizers in Southeast Asia were European powers, including the British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese. Besides the Europeans, Japanese and the Americans used to colonize Southeast Asian countries as well. Southeast Asians […]
Date: January 22nd, 2025
During the 18th and 19th century, France underwent many changes that were both terrifying and extravagant. After suffering defeat by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, France entered a period of civil uprising. This “time of tension, contradiction, change, and anticipation” became known as Belle Epoque (Harris, 1). The Belle Epoque included the […]
Date: January 22nd, 2025
After emancipation, labour opportunities and experiences changed for the better; before emancipation a slave was lucky if he lived nine years after being captured. Some died from diseases, but many of them died from simple overwork. Plantation owners found it cheaper to work slaves to death and buy new ones than to give them the […]
Date: January 22nd, 2025
Keystone Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation located at Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu. Keystone started their operations with the indigenous communities of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR) in the year 1996. The idea for a livelihood intervention in the Nilgiris came up with a survey of the apiculture which the founders of Keystone took in the year 1994. […]
Date: January 21st, 2025
The London fire started September 2, 1666 approximately at 1:00 am and ended four days later. London fire and the plague destroyed most of the city and its citizens. This historical fire did not only hurt the cultural but literature. The literature was burned to ashes as also the city. The positive aspect is the […]
Date: January 21st, 2025
After 4 years of hard battle, from 1914 to 1918, Germany lost World War I losing 1,500,000 soldiers. The war caused a coup within Germany; Wilhelm II, the German Emperor, abdicated his throne and escaped to the Netherlands. Furthermore, it led to the economic collapse within the allied countries of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Bulgaria, […]
Date: January 20th, 2025
Life has changed dramatically for African Americans in the last 145 years. African Americans have seen changes to their culture, role in politics, and the economy. African Americans have chosen to progress and change their fate in the past 145 years rather than sit back and simply accept the way that they are treated by […]
Date: January 20th, 2025
