Dorabaji Tata built a cancer hospital in memory of his wife who died due to cancer in 1941. Today this cancer hospital, the premier cancer institute treats 20000 new patients every year for free of cost. Located in Mumbai and is now called Tata Memorial Centre.
An x-ray of a 6 ft industrial rod penetrating Daniel de Wet groin area and coming out of his back‚ just below his shoulder blade. He survived despite losing a kidney and damaging his small bowel and numerous blood vessels.
He was impaled by 1.8m metal bar - now he's ready to tackle the Comrades
Spain’s long-necked dinosaur star emerges from a 12,000-fossil find. Qunkasaura is notable for being among the most complete sauropod skeletons ever unearthed in Europe.
Qunkasaura: 75-million-year-old dinosaur species discovered in Spain
In 1959 police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy refused to leave after being told the library was not for Black people. The boy Ronald McNair went on to get a PhD in physics from MIT and became an astronaut. That library is now named after him. He died in 1986 at the age of 35 during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
María Isabel Amorín is a chemist who invented a water filter that uses a polymer that she synthesized from shrimp shells. She designed this invention to filter polluted water from textile factories in Guatemala. The filter works by re-circulating the water and retaining dye particles in the process.
