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The French ship SV Seine (built in 1899) was on her way to Falmouth with a charge of nitrate when she ran into a gale off Scilly on December 28, 1900. She ran ashore in Perran Bay, Perranporth, Cornwall.

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Russian steamer Aksai wrecked on White Island, Scilly, November 1875 [Photo: Alexander Gendall Gibson]

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“Fannie J. Bartlett” wrecked at Napeague, 1894, photograph by William Wallace Tooker.

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1st December 1936: The ruins of the Egyptian Hall at the Crystal Palace exhibition hall in Sydenham, south London, destroyed by a fire.

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Crystal Palace on fire, London, 30 November 1936. [Photograph by Edward G Malindine].

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Lilienthal's glides after his fatal crash, 1896.
Otto Lilienthal, a German engineer (1848-1896) was a pioneer of aviation, making many test flights in gliders. He died in Berlin after a crash. During a test flight on the Gollenberg near Stölln, On August 9, 1896, his glider No. 11 was struck by a sudden gust of wind and he lost control. Lilienthal broke his back and died the next day.

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Otto Lilienthal flying one of his gliders, circa 1895.
Otto Lilienthal, a German engineer (1848-1896) was a pioneer of aviation, making many test flights in gliders. He died in Berlin after a crash. On August 9, 1896, his glider No. 11 was struck by a sudden gust of wind and he lost control. Lilienthal broke his back and died the next day.

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On 20 April 2008, Brazilian priest Adelir Antônio de Carli left Paranaguá (PR), bound for Dourados, in Mato Grosso do Sul. He flew in colourful helium balloons and aimed to stay in the air for 20 hours. The winds carried him into the Atlantic Ocean, communications and navigation failed, and his body was only found, by chance, 3 months later by a ship.

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After the disaster of Feb. 1, 2003, pieces of Columbia space shuttle debris are seen stored in a hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during accident investigation in 2003. More than 82,000 pieces of debris were recovered. Imaged released May 15, 2003 [NASA]

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