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The Station Nightclub fire disaster in Rhode Island in 2003. The number of injuries was at 230 and the number of deaths was 100. The fire spread so quickly that people didn't have time to escape. People were trapped in the doorway preventing guests from getting out. In less than ten minutes the whole place was on fire.
A map of the number of victims that were found in the locations of the club from the fire. (The main exit is at the bottom center.)
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A random JNA soldier being interviewed during the 10 day armed conflict in Slovenia, 1991.
Pictured here is the then 19 year old Bahrudin Kaletović, an ethnic Bosnian Muslim from Tuzla. This interview became one of the most famous videos during the entire Yugoslav Wars as you can see Bahrudin being open and honest about his situation and how he feels. Needless to say it was pretty interesting given that Yutel was a state-owned station of a communist dictatorship.
Bahrudin himself would get married (said marriage would result in two children), fight in the Bosnian war on the Muslim side and practice playing the guitar to fulfill his dream of becoming a musician. Seven years later in 1998, Bahrudin died in a car accident. He was on his way to the hospital to see his newborn son for the first time...
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Even just that image, without any body being visible, is really unsettling. The amount of blood on the ground is surreal.
When I first saw that map, it took me a while to realize that in that small area towards the main entrance, there's 31 bodies marked. In that small area alone, so many people died, being wegded in with one another. Also note how many people died within easy reach of another exit. The 3 next to the main bar, or everyone next to the kitchen (20 people in total). People didn't know which way to escape and rushed to the main exit, which in itself is a very tight bottleneck leading directly to a small flight of stairs with rails head on (So even after getting out of the door, you'd still be pressed against the rail and could only get out at a 90° angle to the left).View attachment 669488
The Station Nightclub fire disaster in Rhode Island in 2003. The number of injuries was at 230 and the number of deaths was 100. The fire spread so quickly that people didn't have time to escape. People were trapped in the doorway preventing guests from getting out. In less than ten minutes the whole place was on fire.
A map of the number of victims that were found in the locations of the club from the fire. (The main exit is at the bottom center.)
The design of the exit and people not knowing about the other exits cost so many lives here.
And when you see the video (linked in the other thread), it's not so much that the whole thing catches fire within 10 minutes, it's that between "Oh shit, that fire isn't part of the show" and "the entrance is jammed with people" is like 2 minutes. The cameraman is one of the first to notice that something's wrong, he immediately goes for the main entrance and he still barely makes it out in time.
That video is why I always check for fire exits when I am at a bar or concert. You might have less than a minute to make your way out.
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The fact that even with the head start that camera man barely got out is terrifying. You had to move fast in that case. The people who designed the club sold way too many tickets so it was overcrowded if I remember correctly. And the proper wall protection wasn't used, which made the area more flammable and from what I recall that's why it caught fire so fast.
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Franjo Tuđman, decorated Yugoslav partisan and future president of the modern Croatian state, 1945
Tuđman and almost the overwhelming majority of the political and military leadership of 90s Croatia were all communist partisans who during World War II fought alongside Tito. What has to be the absolute biggest mindfuck of the war in Croatia during the 90s is the fact that old Croatian Titoist generals were waging a war against Serb Tito's pioneers while both sides went out of their ways to LARP as nationalists. Reality has more chromosomes than fiction.
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There's something oddly charming about seeing that "gun-for-hire" bit or the guy looking for a HIND helicopter. Like it's straight out of a cheesy movie or Jagged Alliance...
Soldier of Fortune must have been one of the craziest magazines out there.
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A sad irony about that video, he was recording it for fire and safety hazards purposes.
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The Rhodesian Army recruited a lot of foreign volunteers through SoF.
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James Blunt as part of the British KFOR contingent during a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, 1999
After the war ended, the Russians took in a quick surprise move the airport of Priština before NATO could react. NATO Supreme Commander Wesley Clark wanted the Russians out badly to the point of almost sounding bloodthirsty. Blunt and his unit were ordered to attack the Russians and drive them out, an order which Blunt refused to obey. A direct confrontation with Russian military personnel was avoided and some people even go as far to say that James Blunt single-handedly averted World War III. Personally I believe Blunt's superior Mike Jackson played a bigger role by standing behind Blunt and going out of his way to solve the situation with the Russians through dialogue, in which he ultimately succeeded. But nevertheless, it's for me more than enough to forgive his "You're Beautiful".
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Even worse, they died listening to Great White.
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Tuđman was in the end everything Pavelić wished he could be. The so-called "1,000 Year Old Dream" of a Stronk Independent State of Croatia Who Don't Need No Serbs to be realized by a Titoist of all fucking people has to be the biggest irony in recent Croatian history.
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On July 17th 1981, 2 walkways collapsed within the Hyatt Regency Kansas City Hotel, killing 114 people and injuring 216 others. The fatally injured received morphine to ease their pain, and a firefighter even had to amputate a survivor's leg to free him.
Some time after, investigators found out that changes on the walkway's steel tie rods' design were the cause of the disaster.
God damn being flattened like that is not a way to go out.
"Bloody Saturday" was a big one, where a child was photographed on a bombed-out railroad during the Battle of Shanghai.
It ended up being a staged hoax proved in Look, and further by declassifed documents several years back.
Maybe because somebody considered Ainu or Ryukyuan today only has about twenty percent of the DNA? It's not even Elizabeth Warren-tier, because unlike Injuns, they don't bitch about oppression as much because it's not like the Russians and Chinese would've treated them better, when in fact would've been far worse when you look at how the Ainu in the Russian Far East and Ryukyuans and other related Austronesian tribes in Taiwan were pretty much wiped out.
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In the 19th century the Japanese Empire actually had protections for "indigenous peoples". The Ainu were deprived of their land precisely because they weren't considered separate from the Yamato race.
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Weird weapons of WWII:
L̶a̶n̶c̶h̶e̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ MP28 Bergmann SMG with a primitive tactical light
The Smith Gun, an anti-tank cannon made to be hauled around by its barrel, then tipped over onto one of its wheels.
The Panjandrum, a rocket-powered explosive wheel that was supposed to tear through enemy barbed wire defenses and blow itself up
Germany's Wind Cannon, designed to create wind gusts to knock Allied bombers out of the sky.
The Stinger machine gun, a mashup of a Browning AN/M2 aircraft machine gun, a BAR bipod, and the rear stock of a M1 Garand. Only six were made.
L̶a̶n̶c̶h̶e̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ MP28 Bergmann SMG with a primitive tactical light
The Smith Gun, an anti-tank cannon made to be hauled around by its barrel, then tipped over onto one of its wheels.
The Panjandrum, a rocket-powered explosive wheel that was supposed to tear through enemy barbed wire defenses and blow itself up
Germany's Wind Cannon, designed to create wind gusts to knock Allied bombers out of the sky.
The Stinger machine gun, a mashup of a Browning AN/M2 aircraft machine gun, a BAR bipod, and the rear stock of a M1 Garand. Only six were made.
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Yes, because it was assumed they would be wiped out, with the remaining diluted by Japanese settlers. Hell, many foreign Meiji advisers involved were Americans who dealt with Indians.
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Everything about this thing is crazy.
The shells were numbered and had to fired in order. Due to the high wear on the barrel, the calibre increased a little and the shells reflected that by becoming slightly larger, the later they are supposed to be fired.
In order to hide the gun's firing, it was always fired with a whole battery of regular artillery, so the enemy would not recognize that it was this gun that damaged Paris.
In order to "aim" the gun, they would fire randomly at a certain position and then wait for french newspapers to tell them where they hit, in order to readjust the gun.
The french didn't know what hit them, so they assumed it was Zeppelins dropping bombs.
Last but not least: The gun fired in such a high arc that the lower atmospheric resistance and earth rotation figured heavily into the firing solution. This also meant that the Paris-gun shells were the highest-flying man-made object until the V2 broke its record.
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Men with animals:
A group of 17-19 year old japanese kamikaze pilots with a puppy, in 1945. The photo was taken the day before the young lads died in suicide missions.
Yukio Mishima with one of his kittehs. Unlike his father (who tried to poison one of his son's pets), Mishima was a crazy cat gentleman.
Jim Jones holding 2 kittehs during a mass(?), in 1974.
A group of 17-19 year old japanese kamikaze pilots with a puppy, in 1945. The photo was taken the day before the young lads died in suicide missions.
Yukio Mishima with one of his kittehs. Unlike his father (who tried to poison one of his son's pets), Mishima was a crazy cat gentleman.
Jim Jones holding 2 kittehs during a mass(?), in 1974.
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