The Exploding Whale of Florence: Oregon’s Most Explosive Blunder of 1970
— March 16, 2026On a chilly November morning in 1970, a 45-foot, eight-ton sperm whale washed ashore…
Although it’s hard to picture this one, it actually snowed in one of the hottest places on Earth during February, 1979. Low-lying areas of the Sahara Desert saw snow fly for the first time that we humans are aware of. There are mountainous regions of the Sahara that receive snow more regularly but to see it at the lower elevations was an extraordinarily rare event.
On a chilly November morning in 1970, a 45-foot, eight-ton sperm whale washed ashore…
In the rolling hills of Bath County, Kentucky, an ordinary spring day in 1876…
On the morning of June 30, 1908, at approximately 7:17 a.m. local time, a…
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