At night on June 3, 1980 in the U.S. happened a major False Warnings of Missile Attacks ever.
Officer of the North American Aerospace Defence Command was checking data of control units when he saw threatening signal of 2 missiles attacking. The next second unit reported on 220 missiles attacking.
But before the Americans began counter attack by atomic bombs, someone had noticed that two hundred warheads had no appeared on the radar screen.
Alarm was declared as false and three days late it was found out who is to blame for pseudoattack: the cause was a faulty 46-cent-cost computer chip.
Near the volcano Mauna Loa in Hawaii, on the 17-th of September the scientists finished an investigation that imitated the Mars lifestyle for the participators.
The district court of Amsterdam ordered to return to Ukraine 500 showpieces from four museums of the Crimea famous as ‘Scythian gold’, as Reuters reported on Wednesday, on the 12-th of December.
As it is reported by the edition France24, at the auction in Paris the most famous gun in the story of French literature has been sold. The poet Paul Verlain tried to shot his love partner using the stated weapon directing to bullet to another famous literature activist Arthur Rimbaud.
UNESCO has recognized as the heritage the songs performed by Cossacks within the territory where Dnepropetrovsk region is situated now. It is reported at the web-site of the international organization.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
The samples of saliva of 83 aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans showed that they are the direct descendants of the first people who inhabited the green continent nearly 50 thousand years ago.
In natural park of Oregon state the wreckage of a part of cliff happened that broke a structure from sandstone of unusual form. Then, the reason has become identified. Particularly, the unique geological formation was deliberately broken by the tourists.
USA will invest $15 million in the program on fight with the climatic change in Central Asia, the head of state department John Kerry claimed at the meeting with ministers of foreign affairs of five Central Asian countries in Washington.
American man Robert Kugler arrived in the trip throughout the country with his dying from cancer dog called Bella. The story of a man who decided to arrange the last travel for death-sick dog interested foreign mass media, particularly, TV-channels WOWT 6 News and CNN.
On July 14 France celebrates the French National Day which commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille fortress.
