60 wins.
SEC regular season champions.
SEC conference tournament champions.
Knoxville Regional winners.
Knoxville Super Regional winners.
And best of all…
2024 COLLEGE BASEBALL NATIONAL CHAMPIONS.
Approximately 30 people died from immediate blast trauma and acute radiation syndrome (ARS) in the seconds to months after the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986.
Eight months after the nuclear accident, workers made a surprising discovery.
When they entered a corridor below the damaged No. 4 reactor, they found a a black, lava-like substance flowing from the reactor core, resembling a man-made volcano.
Among these hardened masses, one stood out, and the crew gave it the nickname "Elephant's Foot" because of its resemblance to the foot of the large mammal.
Elephant's Foot is a solid mass of melted nuclear fuel mixed with concrete, sand and core sealing material.
At the time of its discovery, Elephant's Foot was emitting approximately 8,000 to 10,000 roentgens, or 80 to 100 grays, per hour, delivering a lethal dose of radiation (4.5 grays) within just five minutes.
In 2002, High School student Charles J. Bishop was inspired by the tragic events of 9/11 and decided that he wanted to recreate the heinous act. He flew an airplane into a skyscraper in Tampa, Florida. There was only one casualty, the boy flying the plane.
Soviet soldiers feed polar bears from a tank, 1950
This picture was taken in the Chukchi Peninsula. This Peninsula is west of Alaska and it is considered to be one of the hardest places to survive in the Russian federation (then Soviet Union).
Patrols in this area were routine, however the soldiers there often saw that even the wildlife there was struggling due to the extreme cold in the area, so they would feed cans of condensed milk to the polar bears. The second image shows a soldier kissing a cub.
The soldiers did not give meat to the bears, as it wouldn't be possible to take a large quantity of meat with them in a tank, however condensed milk was part of their army ration as a dessert.
These picture's are actually incredible, as polar bears are very protective of their cubs and will fight viciously to defend them. Polar bears are also thought to be the most aggressive type of bear towards humans.
The Chukchi Peninsula is inhabited by the Chukchi people, an indigenous group of people who may have been the first to ever live in the Eastern Russian Federation. There are about 15,000 Chukchi people alive today.
Joe Milton announces on his instagram that he will not be playing in the Citrus Bowl on New Year’s Day.
This leaves Nico Iamaleava as the starting QB for Tennessee.
One of the worst mining accidents in history, the Fraterville Mine Disaster in Tennessee, killed over 200 miners in 1902.
But, according to the website Letters of Note, “for the 26 who survived the initial blast, a side passage of the mine proved to be a safe haven, but not for long—when rescuers eventually reached them, all had suffocated. Found next to a number of the those 26 bodies were letters to loved ones, one of which can be seen below. It was written by Jacob Vowell to Sarah Ellen, his beloved wife and mother to their 6 children, one of whom, 14-year-old Elbert, was by his side in the mine. (‘Little Eddie’ was a son they had lost previously.)
All but three of Fraterville’s adult men were killed that day; over a hundred women were instantly widowed; close to a thousand children lost their fathers. The Fraterville Mine disaster remains the worst of its kind in Tennessee’s history.”
“Ellen, darling, goodbye for us both. Elbert said the Lord has saved him. We are all praying for air to support us, but it is getting so bad without any air. Ellen I want you to live right and come to heaven. Raise the children the best you can. Oh how I wish to be with you, goodbye. Bury me and Elbert in the same grave by little Eddie. Godbye Ellen, goodbye Lily, goodbye Jemmie, goodbye Horace. We are together. Is 25 minutes after two. There is a few of us alive yet. Jake and Elbert Oh God for one more breath. Ellen remember me as long as you live Goodbye darling”.
This photo captures 28-year-old Marcy Borders, a Bank of America employee at the World Trade Center as she takes shelter in an adjacent office building following the collapse of the South Tower.
Borders was working on the 81st floor of the North Tower when the attack began, and she successfully fled, saving her life.
On September 11, 2001, Andrea Haberman began her morning with a cherished routine she shared with her fiancé: the first to call the other would win their daily contest. On this day, Andrea was the winner.
She called early from a desk at the Carr Future offices in the North Tower, preparing for her 9:00 a.m. meeting.
Roughly 40 minutes after their conversation, a hijacked airplane struck the tower just above her location, making escape impossible.
In the following months, workers at the recovery site found some of Andrea’s belongings, including the cell phone she used for her final call. These items are now part of the exhibits at the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
A piece of debris, likely from one of the crashed airliners, lies on the corner of Murray Street in lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center site in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.