In the 1970s, North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvos from Sweden in a deal worth $70 million. After delivering the vehicles, North Korea never paid for the cars, resulting in the largest car theft in human history.
The Brinks Armored Car Robbery of 1981, orchestrated by members of the radical group Black Liberation Army (BLA) and their allies from the Weather Underground.
The robbery took place in Nanuet, New York, where the group stole $1.6 million from a Brinks armored truck. During the heist, two police officers and a security guard were killed.
The Black Liberation Army was a splinter group from the Black Panther Party, dedicated to achieving racial justice through militant means. The Brinks robbery was an extreme manifestation of this militancy, with its members believing they were funding a revolution.
The event had a significant impact on the public perception of African American activism in the early 1980s, particularly as law enforcement cracked down on radical groups. Several individuals involved were arrested, tried, and sentenced to lengthy prison terms, including the famous case of BLA member *Mutulu Shakur* (stepfather of rapper Tupac Shakur).
AN UNFORGETTABLE CHESS GAME IN 1924 This extraordinary chess game took place in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg Agora) in 1924.
In this particular game, the chess pieces were replaced by people, giving the event a unique and spectacular touch. The game was played by chess masters Peter Romanovsky and Ilya Rabinovich, one of the most famous chess masters of his time.
The game lasted a total of five hours and was played on a giant outdoor chess board set up in the square in front of the Winter Palace. This type of chess game is part of an annual event created to promote chess in the Soviet Union. The first such event took place in Smolensk in 1921 and quickly became a popular event.
The goal was to stimulate public interest in chess and promote strategic thinking among spectators. It is not known who won the match in St. Petersburg in 1924. Chess is not just a game, but is valued as an intellectual challenge and a means to promote education and strategic thinking.
The choice of Leningrad as the venue for this chess game was no coincidence. The city was a cultural and intellectual center of the Soviet Union and provided the perfect setting for such an event.
Credits to the rightful owner
The Apollo 14 command module, Kitty Hawk, now displayed at the Kennedy Visitor Center, carried astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell to the Moon in 1971.
During the mission, Kitty Hawk orbited the Moon 34 times, while Shepard and Mitchell made the third crewed lunar landing, contributing to NASA's historic Apollo program.
Before and after footage showing the improvement made by Gath, a Parkinson's patient after just two days on a new drug Produodopa treatment, after being diagnoses 12 years ago.
A "split screen" sunset happens when clouds on the right half of the footage are higher in the sky and are thus still picking up some of the Sun’s lingering rays
This was recorded in Florida.
Photographer Joel Sartore captured this footage of a Horsfield’s tarsier at Taman Safari in Indonesia.
It's a carnivorous, nocturnal species of tarsier living in Borneo and Sumatra.
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