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1. Japanese man who was atomic bombed twice in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, Nagasaki resident Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, when the city was suddenly bombed. In fact, the man wanted to leave that very day, and was already on his way to the station when he realized that he had forgotten the Hanko (the seal that allowed him to travel), as a result of which he was forced to return to his office to pick it up. At 8:15, as he walked back to the docks, the American bomber The Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb "Baby" near the city center, which was only 3 km away.
The explosion ruptured his eardrums, left him temporarily blind and left him with burns along the entire left side of his upper body. Having recovered, he spent the night in a bomb shelter and returned to Nagasaki the next day.
Once home, he finally sought medical help to have his wounds treated. Despite the fact that the man was heavily bandaged, the next day, August 9 (the second day of the atomic bombing), he showed up for work. Just as Yamaguchi was describing the Hiroshima explosion to his department chief, an American Bockscar bomber dropped the "Fat Man" atomic bomb on Nagasaki. And the second time he found himself 3 km from the epicenter, but was not injured again.
In 2009, the Japanese government officially recognized him as the only person to survive both explosions. He died of stomach cancer in 2010 at the age of 93.
2. The Greek who became the only resident of the city who did not win 950 million in the lotto
In 2012, residents of the small town of Sodeto in Spain bought tickets for the Great Spanish Christmas Lotto to support a housewives association that received a small percentage of their sales.
When the big day arrived, all of their tickets were winning, making all 70 participating families holders of a certain amount of money from the total winnings of 950 million, which was recognized as one of the largest in the history of the lottery.
All the villagers received their share of the prize, except for one Mr. Kostis Mitsotakis, a Greek director, whose house was somehow missed when the money for tickets was collected, making him the only person in Sodeto who did not win anything that day.
3. The ocean liner stewardess who was involved in accidents on the Titanic, Britannic and Olympic liners
In 1911, 23-year-old Violet Jessop was a stewardess on the Olympic, a luxury ship that was the largest civilian liner at the time until it collided with the old armored cruiser Hawk off the Isle of Wight.
A year later, Violet boarded the Titanic as a stewardess and was there until it famously struck an iceberg, broke in two, and sank. She was subsequently assigned to lifeboat number 16 and rescued by the Carpathia.
Finally, during the First World War, she again found work as a stewardess aboard His Majesty's hospital ship Britannic. Be that as it may, it is obvious that the ship was hit by a mine and, as a result of the fact that it had all the windows open for ventilation, quickly sank in the Aegean Sea near the Greek island of Kea. The number of victims was 30 people.
After the war, Violetta continued to work as a flight attendant! Many years later, in 1971, she died of heart failure.
4. The woman who was hit by hurricanes 5 times
Melanie Martinez has lost four homes in the last 50 years to Hurricanes Betsy (1965), Juan (1985), George (1998) and Katrina (2005), but she still hesitates to leave Louisiana. “I was born here,” she says. - “And these are houses, houses, houses.”
Inspired by her story, the A&E reality show “Hideous Houses” chose her home for a $20,000 makeover in 2012. However, it seems that her luck changed this time too. A few months after that, a Category 1 hurricane named Isaac struck her new home. Everything was lost. “I have now lost 5 houses to 5 hurricanes. And every time they were wiped off the face of the earth,” said Martinez, who is now called “the unluckiest woman in America” by the media.
5. A Florida man who was bitten by a shark, struck by lightning and stung by a snake
Eric Norrie is no stranger to unusual phenomena. After the near-fatal shark bite, he told reporters that he had previously also been struck by lightning and also bitten by a snake.
On July 29, 2013, Norrie was spearfishing in the Bahamas when a shark snuck up behind him and bit off part of his leg. Norrie's father-in-law dived into the water between him and the shark and helped him get to the shore, where, as it turned out, a doctor from San Francisco was resting. To stop the blood that was gushing from the fresh wound, Norrie used a large rubber band from his harpoon, from which he made a pressure bandage.
6. A British man who survived 16 major accidents in his life, including a lightning strike, a mine collapse and three car accidents
According to media reports, "Disaster John" as some call him, a 54-year-old tech worker, appears to be the unluckiest man in Britain.
John Line's failures continued throughout his life. He was even known as the man who was involved in two accidents at the same time. As a child, he fell from a horse and cart, only to be run over by a delivery van.
When he was a teenager, he broke his arm falling from a tree. On the way back from the hospital, his bus got into an accident and he broke the same arm again, only in a different place. The accident happened, of course, on Friday the 13th. Later, in 2006, his story made it into the newspapers because he again found himself lying down after falling through a manhole at work.
7The American Man Who Was Robbed At Gunpoint, Stabbed In The Chest, Bitten By Two Snakes At The Same Time And Striked By Lightning
John Wade Agan made the news in 2011 after he was hospitalized, this time struck by lightning, because he decided to use a landline phone at his home in Florida.
In the past, a 47-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint while driving his taxi and was locked in his trunk. He also suffered a stab wound to the chest using a butcher knife in 2008. He also claims that in 2009 he was bitten by two snakes at the same time.
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Russia is a country of despondency, and a unique one at that. In few countries, under similar living conditions, people feel as unhappy as we do. This is a scientifically proven fact: as a result of the World Values Survey, which lasted 30 years, scientists Ronald Inglehart University of Michigan came to the conclusion that Russians are among the most unhappy people on Earth.
The study was conducted in one hundred countries around the world. People were asked how happy they were and their sociocultural values were examined. Russia, Nigeria and Iraq took the last places in this “happiness index”.
Ronald Inglehart says: “Incredible pessimism was identified back in 1981, when our group conducted a pilot study in the Tambov region. It recorded levels of unhappiness similar to India and Nigeria, whose residents were significantly poorer. We did not expect such a result!”
Since 1991, scientists from the above-mentioned university have measured the level of happiness in Russia. Once again, they were shocked by the results: our country fell from a low level of happiness in 1991 to a level that was not recorded even in countries affected by war or epidemics! And by 1996, the level of happiness fell even lower!
A slight increase was registered in 2006, when trips to European countries became available to many Russian residents. Russians had approximately the same amount of happiness as Albanians. In the latest table, Russia is in 88th place out of 97. Ethiopia, Romania and Rwanda are slightly happier than our country, Iraq, Albania and Zimbabwe are more unhappy.
— The level of happiness depends on the level of income. There are more happy people in rich countries, says Ronald Inglehart. — Increasing the level of well-being helps people become happier exclusively in poor countries. The more inequality there is in a country, the more unhappy its residents are. Democracy is necessary - not only in politics, but also in everyday life. A person who has freedom of choice is confident that he will be able to change his life for the better, and this makes him happier... Societies that develop tolerance towards people of other races, nationalities, religions, and sexual preferences are happier. The best indicator of the level of happiness is the attitude towards a woman.
Scientists led by Inglehart have found that even the inhabitants of Africa are not ready to endure hardships like the Russians.
Last December, during a visit to Russia, Ronald Inglehart said: “As our 30 years of research have shown, the well-being of a country and the level of happiness of its citizens are connected in a rather intricate way. As long as a country is poor and the people in it are poor, economic growth leads to more happy people. But this doesn't last long. Poor countries have fewer happy people than richer ones. I don't want a country with so many nuclear weapons to be cornered and filled with unhappy people."
Experts confirm the conclusions of American scientists All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion. According to them, our fellow citizens feel unhappy because of poverty, low income, difficult life circumstances, lack of a good job, and loneliness. The list of “misfortunes” is completed by rising prices and lack of confidence in the future.
A Director of the Interdepartmental Center for Socio-Economic Measurements of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexey Shevyakov says: “A huge mass of poor and almost poor people have appeared in our country. On the other hand, we have the top of society - 10-12% of the rich, who live separately from the large mass of people. We have a deep socio-economic stratification of society.”
Persistent depression
— The conclusions made by American scientists are correct. Russia is in such a situation that this cannot even be called a disaster. “This is something worse,” says a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation commission on social issues and demographic policy, president of a regional public organization promoting the protection of children's rights "Right of the Child" Boris Altshuler. — For a huge number of families, the birth of a child is a “leap” into poverty and into impossible living conditions; there is nothing to feed the children, there is nowhere to live with them. The reasons for mass Russian poverty are known: low incomes of the population, due to the suppression of domestic production, combined with monopolistic inflated prices for the most necessary things: the purchase price of a liter of milk is about 10 rubles, with a sales price of 40-60 rubles. And so it is in everything. The only good thing is that in the “pseudo-market” new Russia, a certain “Vozdukhoprom” has not arisen, and that the very ability to breathe does not yet depend on the level of family income. The catastrophic aging of the country's population against the backdrop of low life expectancy (62 years for men, 74 for women, in the USA - 76 and 81, respectively) is stated in the WHO report presented on May 13. Where will happiness come from in such a situation?!
“SP”: — Is it possible to correct the situation and increase the level of happiness?
— To do this, first of all, it is necessary to overcome poverty: to reduce the price of the “minimum consumer basket” in the areas of housing and food. Massive social construction is required. New jobs will appear and the income of many families currently classified as poor will increase. With the construction of public housing and roads, President Roosevelt led the United States out of the Great Depression in the late 1930s. The possibility of applying this experience in modern Russia depends on the state’s ability to limit the price appetites of monopolies.
Children must be taken care of, otherwise Manezhnaya Square 2010, drugs, and juvenile crimes are inevitable.
Author of books on child and adult psychology Inna Malkhanova claims that more than half of the world's population accepts life as it is, although about a third are concerned about the state of their affairs: “Eastern Europeans do not feel very happy, but regarding Russians, I agree with the conclusions of American scientists. 75% of our country's population lives in poverty. At the same time, in Russia, 1.5% of the population owns more than 50% of the national wealth.
In this terrible situation, the Russian government wrote off the debt of Libya in the amount of 4.5 billion dollars, Iraq in the amount of 12 billion dollars, Afghanistan in the amount of 11.6 billion... Our rulers provided Venezuela with a loan of 2.2 billion dollars for the purchase of weapons. The Republic of Nauru, home to about 15 thousand people, received funds for the implementation of social programs after recognizing independence Abkhazia loan of 50 million dollars!
“SP”: — So, Russians will not be happy in the foreseeable future?
- What are you talking about? Almost half the country lives in a state of persistent depression. People are going wild from the inability to support their children, from unemployment, from the fact that they don’t see a way out... People show unmotivated aggression, commit suicide for minor reasons.
Poverty and misfortune
Inna Malkhanova’s words are confirmed by the abundance of terrible stories happening in the Russian state.
The village of Kozlovka, located in the Buturlinovsky district of the Voronezh region, has been rocked by scandals for almost a month. The peace in the village was disturbed after a local guy got into a fight with an Azerbaijani peer. The young men admitted that they were both wrong and made peace.
A few days later, a fight broke out again: this time, 20-year-old Alexey Lepyokhin got into a fight with 21-year-old Armenian Robert Koshelyan. Some of the residents sided with Robert: they say that Lyoshka recently returned from the army, his blood is boiling... Another part said that Robert is not an angel, he wrote on the Internet that “he will do whatever he wants.” Lyoshka didn’t like this and expressed his dissatisfaction to his neighbor. As a result, he suffered a broken jaw.
At first, the parents of the fighters wanted to “settle the matter peacefully.” The Lepyokhin family demanded 100 thousand rubles from the Koshelyan family, but they replied that they could only provide 30 thousand. The Lepyokhins were not satisfied with the mentioned amount and Alexey wrote a statement to the police against Robert.
Local residents were outraged by the behavior of the Koshelyan family. At the same time, they remembered about the Azerbaijanis, whose family opened a bar in the village. Several dozen people decided to eliminate the “hot spot” and headed to the bar. The parents of the victim Alexei Lepyokhin were not among them.
The head of the rural settlement, Alexander Golovkov, managed to reason with his fellow villagers. But a few days later, almost 500 people gathered near the bar. Residents of neighboring villages came to the aid of the Kozlovites. People shouted that the visitors were to blame for the fights and the sale of low-quality alcohol. The police had great difficulty in calming down the angry people.
Local authorities, wanting to end the conflict, invited residents to a meeting at the village club. About 200 people came, but there was no conversation. People shouted: “They beat our children, and you stand up for strangers!”, “The newcomers here are getting rich, but we are beggars!”
— In my opinion, the causes of the conflict in Kozlovka have nothing to do with interethnic contradictions. Poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, irritation that strangers are earning a lot of money... People are tired of a hard life and take out their anger on newcomers, says Voronezh human rights activist Andrey Komarov.
Last July in the Pskov region, 58-year-old teacher of the Vishlevskaya secondary school Nadezhda Udaltsova hanged herself in a barn near her house in the village of Kryukovo, Novorzhevsky district. We talked about this terrible story.
According to the relatives of the deceased, Nadezhda Udaltsova committed suicide because her students received poor USE results. She indicated this motive in her suicide note.
In May of this year, a 14-year-old schoolgirl who lived in the village of Tetyanovo in the Gornomarisky district of the Mari El Republic was found hanged on the veranda of her house. In her personal diary, the deceased girl explained that she was pushed to commit suicide by the prediction of the American preacher Harold Camping about the coming end of the world. The girl’s teachers and friends say that she was inquisitive and actively interested in what was happening in the world.
The schoolgirl changed when she became familiar with the sermons of the American charismatic Harold Camping. The American, who has been anathematized as a false prophet by almost all Christian communities in the United States, is known for his predictions of the end of the world. The last time Camping, by its own will, set the date of the apocalypse for May 21 of this year...
In June, a 14-year-old schoolgirl committed suicide in the city of Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk region. The girl grew up in a prosperous family; on the eve of the tragedy, she had no conflicts at school or at home. In her suicide note, the schoolgirl wrote that no one needed her.
— People who accept life as it is are much happier than those who experience severe anxiety about their lives. Alas, Russians, most of whom are concerned with getting a living and feeding their children, cannot think like that, says Inna Malkhanova.
1 Denmark 4.24 2 Puerto Rico 4.21 3 Colombia 4.18 4 Iceland 4.15 5 Northern Ireland 4.13 6 Ireland 4.12 7 Switzerland 3.96 8 Holland 3.77 9 Canada 3.76 10 Austria 3.68 11 El Salvador 3.67 12 Malta 3.61 13 Luxembourg 3.61 14 Sweden 3.58 15 New Zealand 3.57 17 Guatemala 3.53 18 Mexico 3.52 19 Norway 3.5 20 Belgium 3.4 | 78 Tanzania 0.13 79 Azerbaijan 0.13 80 Macedonia -0.06 81 Rwanda -0.15 82 Pakistan -0.30 83 Ethiopia -0.30 84 Estonia -0.36 85 Lithuania -0.70 86 Latvia -0.75 87 Romania -0.88 88 Russia -1.01 89 Georgia -1.01 90 Bulgaria -1.09 91 Iraq -1.36 92 Albania -1.44 93 Ukraine -1.69 94 Belarus -1.74 95 Moldova -1.74 96 Armenia -1.80 A resident of Croatia who considers himself the luckiest person in the world - he managed to emerge alive and unharmed from seven major disasters - and hit the jackpot in the lottery. Moreover, he decided to play the lottery for the first time in the last forty years. Frane Selak, 74, who won £600,000, said: “I'm going to enjoy my life now. I feel reborn. I know God has been watching over me all these years.” Seven disasters of Frane Selak: Train and icy river The first time the Croatian was truly lucky was in 1962, when the train on which he was traveling from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik derailed and fell into an icy river, Ananova reports. Then seventeen people drowned, and Frane Selak almost died with them. He managed to swim ashore, suffering from severe hypothermia, shock, bruises and a broken arm. Airplane and haystack A year later, he fell out of a DC-8 airplane between Zagreb and Rijeka when the plane's door suddenly burst open during the flight. As a result of this disaster, 19 people died. Selak landed on a haystack and suffered shock, bruises and cuts. Bus and river In 1966, the bus in which he was traveling to the city of Split tilted and fell into the river. Four people died. Selak swam ashore with cuts, bruises and, this time, even more shock. burning car Disaster number four happened to the Croatian in 1970. The car he was driving on the highway suddenly caught fire. Selak managed to get out of the car a few seconds before the gas tank exploded. After this incident, his friend began to call the lucky Croatian “Lucky”. “He told me then,” Selak says. - “You can look at everything that happens to you from two sides. Either you are the unluckiest person in the world, or the luckiest.” I preferred the latter." Hair and a faulty pump Three years later, Frane Selak suddenly lost almost all the hair on his head. A leaking fuel pump sprayed gasoline directly onto his car's hot engine, fanning the flames through the breather. Road accident In 1995, Frane Selak's sixth disaster occurred. On one of the streets of Zagreb he was accidentally hit by a bus. The lucky Croatian escaped with a “slight fright” this time too - he received minor bruises and inevitable shock. UN truck and mountain gorge The following year, Selak was driving his car in the mountains when suddenly, as he rounded a bend, he saw a UN truck barreling toward him. His Skoda crashed into a road fence, broke through it and hung on the edge of a cliff. Selak managed to jump out of the car at the last moment. After a short flight, he landed on a tree, from where he was able to follow the flight of his car into a mountain gorge, which exploded 90 meters below him. Frane Selak married unsuccessfully four times. After his lottery win, he remarks philosophically, “I guess my marriages were disasters too.” With the money he won, Selak decided to buy a house, a car, and a speedboat. After this, he marries his beloved, who is 20 years younger than him. Tops the ranking of the twenty most famous unlucky people Bernard Ascherio, who was born in France in 1951. This unique person was officially included in the Guinness Book of Records with the honorary title “The Unluckiest Man on the Planet.” Judge for yourself: when he was 1.5 years old, he fell out of his crib and broke his hip. Having recovered and just starting to master a children's bicycle, Bernard managed to get a head injury, and since then the “black streak” in his life has not ended. Asherio breaks his legs, arms, collarbones, and breaks his head with enviable frequency, regularly getting into car accidents. By the age of sixty, the number of misfortunes that befell his unlucky head had already exceeded 160. This is an average of approximately 3 serious misfortunes per year, starting from the first year of life. However, there were also record months. So, in one of these usually unlucky months for Ascherio, his central heating system burst and several rooms in the house were flooded with boiling water; a week later, a lightning strike struck the home - the TV, food processor and refrigerator burned out; and a few days later he was driving a car and several gas cylinders fell in front of him from a truck crawling in front. Having just repaired the car, Bernard left the service station and was immediately hit by a drunk driver at the nearest intersection. The apotheosis of the most unsuccessful month in his unsuccessful life was the suicide of a homeless man, who naturally chose the basement of his house for this. What is noteworthy is that Ascherio composed a wonderful autobiography called “Mr. Accident,” where he completely disagrees with the statement that he is an unhappy person. And this seems to be true. Just imagine how many troubles befell him, but he remained alive and not crippled. If you look at it from this angle, then perhaps Bernard Ascherio can, on the contrary, be called lucky. Salieri fell victim to black PR many years before the invention of this term. The world knows him as a mediocre composer who, out of envy, poisoned a genius. Lawyers and psychiatrists even have the term “Salieri syndrome” - a crime committed on the basis of professional envy. Surely he would prefer complete oblivion to such glory. In fact, Antonio Salieri was the conductor of the Italian opera troupe in Vienna, one of the founders of the Vienna Conservatory. His works have been staged in almost all opera houses around the world. Among his students are Beethoven, Liszt and Schubert. Contemporaries claimed that Salieri was the kindest person. When his teacher Gluck died, he took care of his children. Shortly before his death, he suffered from a mental disorder. During one of his attacks, he declared that he had poisoned Mozart. When, having regained consciousness, Salieri learned about his “confession,” he was terribly frightened and began to refuse what he had said. At the trial in Milan, the defense managed to prove his innocence. Until his death, in rare moments of enlightenment, Salieri repeated: “I can confess everything, but I did not kill Mozart.” In vain, this sweet man went down in history as an envious loser. 3. Robert Scott The English explorer of Antarctica Scott had no polar experience when, in 1901-1904, he set out on the expedition that discovered the Edward VII Peninsula, the Transarctic Mountains and explored Victoria Land. The first expedition was successful, except that Scott did not know how to handle sled dogs purchased in Russia, and on the way back the dogs decided to die from their hard life. Returning, Scott received gold medals from the geographical societies of England, America, Denmark, Sweden, and in 1911-1912 he set off to conquer the South Pole. On January 18, 1912, having covered hundreds of kilometers of ice, the British reached their cherished goal. Already on the way, they saw a pole with a Norwegian flag: three weeks before them, Amundsen had visited the southernmost point of the planet. Disappointed, Scott turned back, but not a single member of the expedition returned from the icy desert. Eight months later, a rescue party found their bodies. Scott was only 11 miles short of reaching the supply depot. In his suicide note, “Message to Society,” he writes: “The causes of the disaster were not caused by shortcomings of the organization, but by bad luck in the risky undertakings that we dared.” According to legend, it was Scott who owned the motto that Kaverin put in the epigraph of “Two Captains,” but the researcher pronounced it in a slightly modified form: “Fight and search, do not find and do not give up.” 4. Kerry Packer Australia's richest Packer is considered one of the world's unluckiest players. Along with Arab sheikhs and arms dealers, he is on the list of 150 gambling whales to whom any major casino will happily provide a line of credit of up to $5 million. The media tycoon, whose net worth is estimated at $3.73 billion, can afford to be a loser. On average, Packer comes to Las Vegas 4 times a year, where he plays big, placing bets of $100-150 thousand. At first he was lucky. In May 1995, he won almost $19.5 million at blackjack. After one of his big wins, the tycoon handed out tips worth about $1.3 million to 500 casino employees. Another time, he gave a $120,000 tip to a waitress serving cocktails. But soon his luck turned away from him, he began to lose and became known as one of the most famous “losers” in the world. Packer set a kind of anti-record in 2000, when he lost about $40 million during several visits to Las Vegas. He lost about half of this amount in baccarat in three days. 5. Pete Best Managed to get kicked out of the Beatles six months before their triumph. In 1960, the Beatles faced the question of finding a drummer. The choice fell on Best, who had two advantages - his mother (the owner of one of the most popular clubs in Liverpool) and his own drum kit. In 1962, the famous producer George Martin auditioned the guys, but he categorically did not like Pete. John and Paul got rid of Pete, replacing him with Ringo Starr. The single Love Me Do, recorded with the new lineup, took 17th place in the British charts. Decades of worldwide Beatlemania lay ahead. Pete Best was mortally offended and became... a baker. He tried unsuccessfully to make a career in music and consoled himself with his five minutes of fame, giving numerous interviews about the early years of the Beatles and releasing the scolding book The Beatles: The True Beginning. His band still performs Beatles cover songs. 6. Hans Christian Andersen In his personal life, Andersen (1805-1875) was unlucky. The storyteller treated women as something unattainable and died a virgin. He was often seen entering brothels - he met with prostitutes, but limited himself to conversations. Tall, thin, with small eyes, a huge nose and long arms - this is what the man who wrote The Ugly Duckling looked like. His friends teased him as an orangutan. Andersen loved children, believing that only these pure creatures understood him. However, when children saw the storyteller, they often became frightened and began to cry. In the last years of his life, Andersen almost never left the house, being deeply depressed. Of the 156 fairy tales written by Andersen, 56 end with the death of the hero. In 1872, the last fairy tale, “Aunt Toothache,” was born. Andersen seriously believed that the number of teeth in the mouth influenced his creativity. In January 1873, Hans Christian lost his last tooth and immediately stopped composing. 7. Typhoid Mary The strangest of all manifestations of evil fate is the “John syndrome”, that is, such bad luck in which a person becomes the cause of tragic events, while remaining unharmed. Typhoid Mary, the American servant who was believed to be responsible for an epidemic that killed 40,000 people in the early 20th century, certainly had such a syndrome. In 1906, members of several New York families fell ill with typhus, which soon spread to several areas. It turned out that in all the houses infected with the disease, a maid named Mary worked in the kitchen. Health inspectors found her responsible for the outbreaks of the disease. She was jailed in solitary confinement for three years. Mary was then released and forbidden to work in the kitchen in the future. Unfortunately, she didn't follow the advice. Five years later, several people fell ill with typhus at the Sloan Maternity Hospital. It turned out that unlucky Mary was working in the kitchen under a false name. She was detained again. Typhoid Mary ended her days in prison in solitary confinement, branded the most sophisticated killer of all time. 8. David Buick David Dunbor Buick showed remarkable inventive skills from his youth: he received thirteen patents for all sorts of plumbing items, including a sprinkler with a rotating head for spraying water, an overhead flush toilet cistern, and a fundamentally new technology for enamelling cast-iron bathtubs, which is still used today. He could have become a multimillionaire, but it occurred to him to sell his plumbing business for a mere $100,000 and get into the internal combustion engine business. The car project turned out to be successful, but Buick, inexperienced in business, was unable to take advantage of it. His partner Whiting met the founder of General Motors, W. Durant, and negotiated a merger with him. General Motors got rid of David himself. Subsequently, he confirmed his reputation as a bad businessman, went bankrupt while trying to create other automobile companies, and worked as a clerk in the provinces. In 1929, forgotten and penniless, he died of cancer, and cars bearing his name were sold in the thousands and were known to every American. After David's death, Buick was robbed again, using his family coat of arms as a factory emblem. Edward Wood is one of the most odious figures in Hollywood. Two years after his death, he was officially recognized as the worst director in the history of cinema. The paradox is that Edward loved cinema more than life. Only absolute mediocrity prevented him from becoming a genius. Starting his career in the 50s, Wood made low-budget horror films and cheap porn films. He had original views on directing. He considered any person on the street to be a brilliant actor. One single take was always enough for him, and even if in the frame the actor touched the green carpet with his foot, representing grass, Ed declared that the movie itself is still a convention. In order not to spend money on expensive location footage, he took from an editor he knew pieces of location filming that were not included in other films, and edited them into his films. Ed Wood died in 1978 in complete poverty. After his death, the director became a cult figure, his work is studied in American film schools, and the famous “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” which was awarded the title of “The Worst Movie of All Time,” appears in “The X-Files” as Agent Mulder’s favorite film. In 1996, Wood's fans created the virtual "Church of the Heavenly Ed Wood" (www.edwood.org) under the motto "Ed died for his art, we live because of him." In the same year, Tim Burton's film dedicated to the “worst director in the world” was released. Sisyphus, the son of the god Aeolus, the lord of winds and storms, managed to deceive the god of death Thanatos and was severely punished for this. In the afterlife, Sisyphus is an eternal loser, he is condemned to roll a huge stone up a high steep mountain, which rolls down from this peak every time. This is Sisyphean labor - useless and joyless work that has to be done every day. Well, it’s not for us to tell you... All these people are truly the unluckiest people in the world! It’s simply hard to believe that all these accidents could have happened to them. Tsutomu Yamaguchi Was in Hiroshima on a business trip on August 6, 1945. While getting off the tram, less than 3 kilometers from the Japanese, a nuclear explosion occurred. He survived and returned to his hometown of Nagasaki, where another bomb was dropped a few days later! He survived again and death came for him in 2010. John "Calamity" Lin
Englishman John Lean got into trouble so often that he was nicknamed “The Calamity.” In total, he suffered 16 major accidents, including a fall from a cart when he was immediately run over by a car. He also fell from a tree and broke his arm, survived a lightning strike, was in a mine during a cave-in, and was hit by a stone fired from a catapult. He survived a bus accident, drowned in a swamp, after which his stomach was washed and disinfected like a child. Roy Sullivan
The chances of being struck by lightning are 1 in 3000. Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning a total of 7 times in his life, the chances of surviving such cases are zero. Once lightning struck him and his wife. But despite all this, Roy lived to the respectable age of 71 years. Kostis Mitsotakis
In 2012, all residents of a Spanish village purchased lottery tickets, which were distributed by a local association of housewives. As it turned out, every single resident of the village of Sodeto won. This is £600 million. And only one person did not share the general fun - Kostis Mitsotakis. Surprisingly, out of 70 houses in the village, only Mitsotakis’s house was bypassed by distributors. Naturally, even his girlfriend left him after that. Anne Hodges
Meteorites usually burn up in the Earth's atmosphere before reaching the surface. And if they do fly, then several times a year and then somewhere in the desert or over the ocean. But only once in the history of mankind did a meteorite hit a person. This happened in 1954, when American Anne Hodges lay down to take a nap on the sofa and a stone crashed through the roof and injured her hip. Melanie Martinez
She was named America's unluckiest woman after her fourth home was destroyed by a hurricane in 50 years. Her homes were destroyed by Hurricanes Betsy (1965), Juan (1985), George (1998), and Katrina (2005). The last and fifth time in a row that Melanie’s home was hit was in 2012 by the powerful Hurricane Isaac. Violet Jessop
She was a stewardess on the Titanic when it sank. But even before that, she worked on the Titanic's "big brother" Olympic in 1911 when it collided with another ship and sank. Then in 1916 she was serving on the Britannic as a nurse when she, too, sank! She survived all three incidents and lived until 1971. John Wade Agan
The 47-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint while driving his taxi and was locked in his trunk. He suffered a stab wound to the chest, which was inflicted on him with a butcher knife in 2008. He also claims that in 2009 he was bitten by two snakes at the same time. He made news in 2011 after being struck by lightning while talking on a landline at his home in Florida. Henry Zeyland
I thought I had escaped death. After Zeiland broke up with his girlfriend in 1883, she committed suicide. Her brother decided to kill Henry. But the bullet fired from the gun only grazed Henry's face and got stuck in a tree that grew nearby. Years later, he decided to cut down the tree. To complete the task, Henry used dynamite. As a result of the explosion, a bullet shot out of the tree and hit him directly in the head, killing him on the spot. English couple Jason and Jenny Lawrence
They were attacked by terrorists more than the heroes of famous militants. On September 11, they visited a shopping center in New York. Many residents and tourists were injured that day as a result of the terrorist attack, Jason and Jenny were among them. Four years later, on July 7, 2005, they found themselves in London during the worst terrorist attack in British history. Several bombs exploded in the subway, killing more than 50 people. But that's not all. Three years later, they went on vacation again, this time to the exotic Indian city of Mumbai. At this time, riots began there with the use of weapons, as a result many people died. The couple continued their vacation as if nothing had happened. Dede Kosvar, "Tree Man"
Dede Koswar, from the Indonesian island of Java, began to struggle when he fell and cut his knee at age 15. Soon warts appeared on his body and spread to his arms and legs. He was very unlucky because his body had undergone such terrible changes as a result of immunodeficiency. Surgeons once cut off 13 pounds of warts, but they all grew back. Wilmer McLean
The Civil War in the United States of America literally took place before the eyes of this man. The first Battle of Bull Run took place on Wilmer McLean's farm, and the second one a year later. In total, 20,000 people died on his lands. He decided to escape the war and moved to Virginia, but she followed him. One of the last battles also took place on McLean's new property and even a truce was signed in his living room! Eric Norrie
Made headlines when a shark bit off two of his legs in 2013. But this was not the first time he had cheated death. Previously, Eric was struck by lightning and survived a rattlesnake bite! Robert Todd Lincoln
I personally knew several US presidents, and three of them did not die a natural death. Robert Lincoln was the eldest son of the legendary President Lincoln. On April 14, 1865, 22-year-old Robert had the misfortune of witnessing the murder of his father by actor John Booth at Ford's Theatre. On July 2, 1881, President James Garfield was assassinated in front of his eyes. After some time, the next President, William McKinley, was also shot and Robert witnessed this murder. After this, Lincoln permanently abandoned public service. Joan Rogers
Might be the biggest loser of all time. Here's a short list of terrible things that have happened to her: she fell off a cruise ship, drowned in a swamp, was struck by lightning twice, once had her tights pinching her legs so tightly they caused nerve damage, and now she can't wear shoes. Joan was also hit in the head with a bat, she was strangled and robbed. |
