Part of what makes the mystery of flight MH370—the Malaysian airplane that disappeared—so haunting is the horror we all feel, wondering if there were people alive and conscious aboard the plane, and if so, if they were aware that the… Read More
During the early 19th century construction of the cathedral of St. Isaac in St. Petersburg, Russia, workers gilded the domes with a gold-mercury amalgam. Sixty workers died of mercury poisoning.