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A young Russ­ian sur­geon Leonid Rogo­zov, stranded in  Antarc­tica with the Sixth Soviet Antarc­tic Expe­di­tion, in 1961 per­forms a self-operation: under local anes­the­sia, sur­rounded by a bunch of guys whose only expe­ri­ence with med­i­cine was sit­ting in a dentist’s chair, the 27 th years old doc­tor removes his own appendix. Leonid Rogo­zov In his diary he explained the pain he suffered and the process of surgery took place. He stated that he was suffered a lot due to the appendix problems which hurt him like the devil. All the avail­able con­ser­v­a­tive treat­ment was applied (antibi­otics, local cool­ing), but the gen­eral con­di­tion was get­ting worse.And so the prepa­ra­tions for the surgery began. In his diary  he describes these events in  plain, almost emo­tion­less lan­guage: how the guys found out, how he told them what was about to hap­pen, what they were to do. Fol­low­ing Dr Rogozov’z instruc­tions, the team mem­ber...

Babe Ruth and George Bush On January 29, 1936, the Baseball Hall of Fame elected its first members. Among the five men was Babe Ruth, seen in this photograph taken in 1948, donating the manuscript of his autobiography to Yale.  The young man in uniform is the captain of the Yale baseball team and a future President. George H. W. Bush was an older college student—he had delayed going to college and joined the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Grace Hopper, and she is one of the most under appreciated computer scientists ever. She invented the first compiler, which is a program that translates a computer language like Java or C++ into machine code, called assembly, that can be read by a processor. Every single program you use, every OS and server, was made possible by her first compiler.    Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who became Mother Teresa She's one of the world's best-preserved bodies: ...

A photo taken of the 'unsinkable' Titanic in 1912 which sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 100 years ago. Thomas Andrews, designer of the Titanic.

A liquidator pushes a baby in a carriage who was found during the cleanup of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The infant had been left in an abandoned house in the village of Tatsenki; the worker found the child when he was measuring radiation levels. Chernobyl, Ukraine, 1986

Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secret. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world.