Dan Gillis • Damn Interesting https://www.damninteresting.com/author/dan-gillis/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:12:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 The Apocalypses That Might Have Been https://www.damninteresting.com/the-apocalypses-that-might-have-been/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-apocalypses-that-might-have-been/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:41:19 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=913 The Apocalypses That Might Have Been:

In the early dawn hours of November 9th, 1979, just a month and a half after the inexplicable Vela Incident, crews manning the underground missile silos along the American Great Plains received an urgent alert. Early warning satellites had detected that Soviet nuclear missiles were in flight, soon to rain apocalyptic fire and death upon […]

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On October 8th, 1871, the small Wisconsin logging town of Peshtigo was consumed by one of the most severe and woefully under-reported fires in human history. After a hot and dry year, with a mere two inches of rain falling from July through September, churchgoers were praying for much-needed precipitation. The creeks had dried up, […]

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