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Sinopsis
A podcast about disasters throughout history - what caused them, how people survived, and how we've responded to keep those disasters from happening again.
Episodios
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Episode 151: The Luxor hot air balloon disaster
01/12/2020 Duración: 56minClimb aboard and view the amazing sights to be seen around the ancient city of Luxor in Egypt - the Valley of the Kings, the ruins of Thebes, and dozens of other temples and statues throughout the region! Oh, afraid of hot air balloons? Then perhaps this story is not for you.
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Episode 150: US Airways Flight 1549
17/11/2020 Duración: 58minFor our 150th episode, we look at a disaster in which everyone survived, thanks to a flight crew with the skill and fortitude to pull off a Miracle on the Hudson.
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Episode 149: The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
31/10/2020 Duración: 01h07minYou should be safe in your place of worship. But this week two years ago, a man walked into the Tree of Life-Or L'Simcha Congregation in Pittsburgh and broke that rule.
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Episode 148: The fire on the Scandinavian Star
30/10/2020 Duración: 59minIn the early morning hours of April 7th, 1990, most of the people onboard the MS Scandinavian Star were fast asleep in their cabins, resting as they traveled from Oslo to Frederikshavn. But at least one person on the ship was not only awake, but plotting something which would leave hundreds of people fighting for their lives.
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Episode 147: The Wellington avalanche
16/10/2020 Duración: 01h27minYou're stuck inside, unable to leave where you are and growing more frustrated by the day. But it's not quarantine, it's 1910 in the Cascade mountains, and you're stuck in a train that's been snowed in beside a small Washington town that's little more than a speck on the map. And as the snow falls for the sixth day in a row, the steep hillside above you, packed with heavy snow, silently threatens to fall. All it needs is one tiny push for disaster to strike.
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Episode 146: The 1992 Los Angeles riots
01/10/2020 Duración: 01h35minThe city didn't have to burn. Looters didn't have to break windows and rob businesses of everything that wasn't tied down. People didn't have to die. But in certain circumstances, when there is no justice, there will be no peace.
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Episode 145: The Brescia explosion
01/09/2020 Duración: 52minPlease don't store all of your explosives in one place. Particularly if there are thunderstorms in the weather forecast.
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Episode 144: The fire on the General Slocum
31/08/2020 Duración: 01h39minThe congregation of St. Mark's Lutheran church in New York City's Little Germany had been waiting for the Sunday school picnic excursion all year. Mothers dressed their kids in their best clothes and packed up good food in baskets to bring with them on the trip up the East River and out to Long Island. On June 15th, 1904, thirteen hundred people would be aboard the General Slocum as it left the pier near the Williamsburg Bridge. Within two hours, over a thousand of them would be dead.
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Episode 143: TWA Flight 800
24/08/2020 Duración: 01h15minYou're at a midsummer evening party at a friend's beach house, enjoying a cocktail or two as the sun sets, when a loud noise draw everyone's gaze to the skies above the ocean. Something has exploded up above - a plane, raining down in fiery pieces on the water below. The sight is already terrifying enough until the whispers start. Did anyone else see something arcing up toward the plane before it blew up?
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Episode 142: The sinking of the Marchioness
31/07/2020 Duración: 01h22minIt was just supposed a late-night birthday party on the Thames - a little drinking, a little dancing, and a lot of fun with all their friends. But in the early morning hours of August 20th, 1989, the 131 people onboard the pleasure boat Marchioness found themselves at the mercy of a ship three times her size.
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Episode 141: The eruption of Mount Pelee
19/07/2020 Duración: 01h34minIt spewed smoke and ash that destroyed crops and killed livestock, and yet they stayed. It caused earthquakes that damaged buildings and mudslide which killed hundreds, and yet they stayed. It sent insects and venomous snakes fleeing down into the town, and yet the people of Saint Pierre on the island of Martinique - or more specifically, some of their political leaders - refused to listen to the wordless threats issued by Mount Pelee.
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Episode 140: The 1918 influenza epidemic
01/07/2020 Duración: 01h43minIt came out of nowhere, flowing in waves throughout the world during a time of great international upheaval. Some did what they could to fight it. Some were struck down, and tragically lost so quickly it was hard to believe they were gone. Some were careless about the whole thing, refusing to wear masks or continuing to gather together for parades and parties. But in the end, what mattered was the virus, and the damage it wrecked.
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Episode 139: The Elaine massacre
19/06/2020 Duración: 01h15minThe gathering was just a union meeting, the Black sharecroppers of Phillips County, Arkansas, banding together and trying to get a fair pay for their work in the cotton fields. But when the night ended in bloodshed, the county's white citizens thought it was something more. Then the posse formed, and all Hell broke loose.
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Episode 138: The sinking of the Estonia
16/05/2020 Duración: 01h23minIt should have just have been a rough-and-tumble overnight ride across the sea, enjoying a good beer or a meal as the waves crashed outside. But then, early in the morning of September 28th, 1994, a loud noise rattled through the ferry Estonia, and the countdown to the ship's quick death began.
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Episode 137: The story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi
24/04/2020 Duración: 54minAll of us are in the middle of trying to survive a disaster. Tsutomu Yamaguchi managed to do so twice in one week.
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Episode 136: The story of Mauro Prosperi
14/04/2020 Duración: 01h14minIt all started when the sandstorm kicked up. Hours later when the winds died down, Marathon des Sables entrant Mauro Prosperi found himself alone in the Moroccan desert, unable to locate the rest of the runners. Nine days later, surprising everyone, he would be found alive.
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Episode 135: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution
06/03/2020 Duración: 50minFounded in 1824, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution provided the British Isles with a standing organization of trained volunteers ready and willing to save those in peril in the surrounding waters on a moment's notice.
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Episode 134: Valujet Flight 592
29/02/2020 Duración: 50minThe images were striking - the faint outline in the marshland of the Everglades where a DC-9 struck the ground, killing all 110 people on board. But what killed all those people within only minutes of takeoff from Miami?
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Episode 133: The 1909 Cherry mine disaster
25/02/2020 Duración: 01h35minYou're working down in the mine several hundred feet below the surface when you start to smell smoke. It's growing thicker with every passing minute, and it's coming from between you and the only way out of the mine.
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Episode 132: DashCon
12/02/2020 Duración: 01h06minIn our first commercial disaster, it was supposed to be the first Tumblr convention, a safe place for fans to share their joy in things like Sherlock, Welcome to Night Vale, anime, and other interests. But what was supposed to be a good time ended up being a prolonged dumpster fire, complete with a bouncy house and a ball pit.