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Virginie Girod raconte l'une des plus célèbres catastrophes naturelles de l'Antiquité. En 79 de notre ère, le Vésuve entre en éruption. En quelques heures, la cité de Pompéi est ensevelie sous les nuées ardentes et ses habitants, figés pour l'éternité dans leur tentative de fuite ... Show More

The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, once found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s it was extinct, its decline sharpened by specimen collectors and at least one volcanic eruption. Human-driven extinction was ‘al ... Show More

Les sœurs Fox, Margaret et Kate, sont souvent considérées comme les fondatrices du spiritisme moderne. Pourtant, derrière leur célébrité et leur influence sur le mouvement spirituel du XIXᵉ siècle, se cache une gigantesque imposture qui a trompé des milliers de personnes pendant ... Show More

At 8:32 a.m. PDT on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens, a volcanic peak in southwestern Washington, suffered a massive eruption, killing 57 people and devastating some 210 square miles of wilderness.Mount St. Helens is located in the Cascade Range and stood 9,680 feet before its erup ... Show More

The awesome, brutal power of the Krakatoa eruption, which had the explosive force of a 200-megatonne bomb, killed more than 36,000 people and cooled the entire Earth by an average of 0.6°C. Curiously, Krakatoa is not the most powerful volcanic eruption in history, but it is perha ... Show More

Virginie Girod raconte une affaire de possession ayant secoué la ville de Loudun au XVIIIe siècle. En 1632, plusieurs soeurs du couvent des Ursulines de Loudun sont prises de crises de folie. Rapidement, le responsable de ces diableries est arrêté. Il s'agit d'un prêtre ayant pac ... Show More

More than 3,500 years ago, a massive volcanic eruption devastated Thera - modern day Santorini - engulfing the Bronze Age world in ash and fire. Entire landscapes were buried, ash darkened the skies, and the shockwaves rippled across the eastern Mediterranean.In this episode of T ... Show More

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In 1814, a poor neighborhood in London fell victim to a strange, tragic and boozy disaster -- this calamity would eventually leave eight people dead. So what exactly happened? How could an entire neighborhood flood with a deadly deluge of beer? Join Ben, Noel and Max for a bizarr ... Show More

Deux femmes ont été mises en examen en France mardi pour avoir pulvérisé les mots "MeToo" sur cinq œuvres d'art, dont une célèbre peinture du XIXe siècle représentant la vulve d'une femme. Traduction :Two women were charged in France on Tuesday over the spraying of the words "MeT ... Show More