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The Bombay explosion (or Bombay docks explosion) occurred on 14 April 1944, in the Victoria Dock of Bombay, British India (now Mumbai, India) when the British freighter SS Fort Stikine caught fire and was destroyed in two giant blasts, scattering debris, sinking surrounding ships and setting fire to the area, killing around 800 to 1,300 people. [1]
A 1938 crime novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot, set in Jerusalem and Petra. The novel involves a family of stepchildren who are suspected of murdering their tyrannical stepmother, but the real killer is a former prison warden who wants to torture her.
Learn about the notorious serial killers who sold their victims' bodies to an anatomy lecturer in 19th-century Edinburgh. Find out how they were caught, tried and executed, and how their crimes influenced the Anatomy Act 1832.
BTK is an abbreviation for "bind, torture, kill", the method used by Dennis Rader, a notorious American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. He also sent taunting letters to police and media outlets, describing the details of his crimes, and was arrested in 2005 after a 13-year hiatus.
A well deck is a lower deck with breaks in the main deck profile, or a hangar-like structure for amphibious vessels. Learn about the origins, evolution and applications of well decks in traditional and modern nautical use.
A hunter-killer group would typically be formed around an escort carrier to provide aerial reconnaissance and air cover, with a number of corvettes, destroyers, destroyer escorts, frigates, and/or United States Coast Guard Cutters armed with depth charges and Hedgehog anti-submarine mortars.
Herb Baumeister was a businessman and a suspected serial killer who murdered over a dozen men in Indiana and Ohio in the 1980s and 1990s. He was linked to the I-70 Strangler case, where he dumped the bodies of his victims near Interstate 70, and also buried some of them on his Fox Hollow Farm property.
USS ABSD-4, later redesignated as AFDB-4, was a nine-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock of the US Navy. Advance Base Sectional Dock-4 ( Auxiliary Floating Dock Big-4 ) was constructed in sections during 1942 and 1943 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California for World War II .