Devastating Before-And-After Photos of Aleppo, Syria
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Aleppo, the largest city in Syria and one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, has experienced a devastating transformation over the last five years. In 2011, the Syrian Civil War broke out after military forces opened fire on peaceful anti-government demonstrations. The city, as well as the rest of the nation, has experienced a cataclysmic toll as a result.
Tragically, not an inch of Aleppo has escaped the ongoing conflict unscathed, and it is sadly evident in these before-and-after photographs.
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17 Historical Coincidences That Will Blow Your Mind
Wikimedia CommonsThe year before John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, Booth’s brother, Edwin (left), saved the life of Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd (right), when the latter was about to fall onto train tracks in Washington, D.C.
Coincidences that seem too strange to be true happen more than we think. The Law of Large Numbers dictates that random events like the following are bound to happen — but that doesn’t make it any less amazing when they do.
Now, see more of the most unbelievable historical coincidences.
Wikimedia CommonsFounding fathers Thomas Jefferson (left) and John Adams (right), alternately close friends and bitter rivals across their intertwined political careers, died on the same day — July 4, 1826 — the 50th anniversary of American independence, of which these two men were chief architects.
Wikimedia CommonsViolet Jessop was aboard the HMS Olympic when it collided with the HMS Hawke; she was on the HMHS Britannic when it struck a mine at sea, and she was aboard the RMS Titanic (above) when it famously hit an iceberg — surviving all three and earning her the nickname “Miss Unsinkable”.
