Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
List of structural failures and collapses; Category:Collapsed buildings and structures; List of bridge failures; List of dam failures; Category:Dam failures; Levee failures and breaches; List of catastrophic collapses of radio masts and towers
11 dead, 24 injured 2005 Chusovoy swimming pool collapse Chusovoy, Russia Swimming pool 14 dead, 11 injured 2006: Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink roof collapse: Bad Reichenhall, Germany: Stadium roof: 15 dead, 32 injured 2006: Katowice Trade Hall roof collapse: Katowice, Poland: Market roof: 65 dead, 170 injured 2006: Basmanny market roof collapse ...
[9] [10] [11] An exceptional example of this is the Mars Climate Orbiter . "The primary cause of the orbiter's violent demise was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit, contrary to its Software Interface Specification (SIS), while a second system, supplied by NASA ...
March 11, 2011: As a result of the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in Japan . Regarded as the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster, there were no direct deaths but a few of the plant's workers were severely injured or killed by the disaster conditions resulting from the earthquake.
The plant with seven units is the largest single nuclear power station in the world, which now again is shut down due to the Fukushima accident. [47] 0: 1 Dec 2009: Hamaoka, Japan: Leakage accident of radioactive water. 34 workers were exposed to radiation: 0: Mar 2011: Fukushima Dai-ichi, Japan: The world's second INES 7 accident.
WorldCom filed for bankruptcy in 2002, resulting in an $11 billion loss to investors. Paula Pant ditched her 9-to-5 job in 2008. She's traveled to 30 countries, owns six rental units and runs a ...
Thomas Edison once said, "I have not failed.I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." From show business and athletics to tech and the corporate world, the giants of every industry have one ...
In 1994, Jeff Bezos co-founded the future e-commerce behemoth Amazon in a Seattle garage. In an interview with Time magazine, the Amazon CEO revealed he gave himself a 30 percent chance that ...