Carl Seaver

Byford Dolphin accident: How a tragic diving accident took 5 lives in the most gruesome way imaginable

On Nov. 5, 1983, four saturation divers from the Byford Dolphin suffered arguably the most catastrophic and gruesome ends in diving history. A dive tender also lost his life, while another diver survived despite sustaining massive injuries. The accident occurred in the Frigg Gas Field, situated between Norway and Scotland in the North Sea. The

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From Book to Film, The Making of The Wizard of Oz

In 1939, the American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) produced an extraordinarily imaginative musical fantasy film adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s fantasy novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Notable for its use of Technicolor (a technique using a color motion picture process dating back to 1916 that provides a particularly surreal quality to this film), unforgettable characters, fantastic storyline,

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Alan Turing: Great Britain’s Secret Weapon Against Germany

At the outbreak of war with Nazi Germany in September 1939, one of Great Britain’s greatest obstacles to thwarting German advances was a machine known as “Enigma,” an encryption device created by German intelligence to encode secret message transmissions. As early as 1932, a team of Polish mathematician-cryptanalysts had succeeded in figuring out how “Enigma”

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