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Ubehebe Crater in Springtime. Geologists call the resulting large steam explosions hydrovolcanic or phreatic eruption and the pits created are known as maars.Ubehebe was the last and largest in a series of similar eruptions in the immediate area (its eruption exceeded the tensile strength of the bedrock by 10 times).
Kikhpinych (Russian: Кихпиныч) is a stratovolcano located in the eastern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, [1] which feeds the famous Valley of Geysers.. At its foot is a 2-by-0.5-km (1.2-by-0.3-mi) area known as the "Valley of Death", where volcanic gases accumulate and kill birds and mammals that enter the valley.
Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day (after the military term), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France , and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front .
The single most important day of the 20th century was 79 years ago on June 6, 1944, during the pinnacle of World War II. It will forever be remembered as D-Day, but the official code name was ...
English soldier Ken Hay was trapped behind German lines and captured while on night patrol in 1944, days after joining the Allied invasion of Normandy, a turning point in World War Two. The ambush ...
Valley of Death (Polish: Dolina Śmierci) in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, is a site of Nazi German mass murder committed at the beginning of World War II and a mass grave of 1,200–1,400 Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by the local German Selbstschutz and the Gestapo.
As the sun was setting the evening of D-Day, these veterans gathered for a dinner just 200 yards from the Maisy Battery, a network of tunnels and bunkers from which the Nazis fired at the men now ...
The Valley of Death, an area of poisonous volcanic gas near the Tangkuban Perahu volcano in Indonesia; The Valley of Death, a nickname for the Korangal Valley in Afghanistan where 54 U.S. servicemen died during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Valley of Death, a nickname for the highly polluted city of Cubatão, Brazil; Valley of Death, a ...