Strictly speaking the post is not about 10 best cosmonauts but about cosmonauts involved in the first 10 successful Soviet space flights. Starting from the seventh the flights were not more individual so you’ll find here more than 10 persons. Let’s start. 1. Yuri Gagarin First flight of a man into the space at the height of 327 kilometers lasting in total 108 minutes that have changed his life and life of our planet. 2. Gherman Titov was Gagarin’s substitute for any unforeseen circumstances and afterwards was chosen to be the second Soviet man in space in 1961. He still holds a record – he was a youngest man ever been in space. At the moment of the flight...

if you didn’t knew him from history you could think that he was a nice person. Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and, after 1934, also head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler, ruling the country as an absolute dictator of Germany.A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the precursor of the Nazi Party (DAP) in 1919 and became leader of NSDAP in 1921. He attempted a failed coup called the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in 1923, for which he was imprisoned. Following...

In Sengileevskoye village not far from Stavropol city, former servicemen settled a military camp for boys. Now in the camp are thirty boys aged 10-18 who learn foundations of martial art and how to handle a weapon.

Australian photographer Mark Tippl made these amazing underwater pictures of people actively involved in surfing and snorkeling. Photographer tired of the monotonous scenery and he decided to add dynamics to his or her work, photographing the waves at the Australian coast with a new angle. These are some really unusual, but still wonderful shots. Take a look and enjoy.

Special forces is a generic term for elite, highly-trained military, police or civilian  paramilitary tactical teams that conduct specialized operations. These include reconnaissance, surveillance, sniping, guerilla and unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, direct action and counter-terrorism actions. Special forces have played an important role throughout the history of warfare whenever the aim has been to achieve disruption by “hit and run” and sabotage, rather than more traditional conventional army combat using large formations of troops and motorized armor groups. Other significant roles lay in reconnaissance, providing essential intelligence from close to or among the enemy, and increasingly in combating terrorists, their infrastructure and activities.In antiquity, Hamilcar Barca in Sicily had specialized troops trained to launch several offensives per day....

From May 31 to June 1 at the training center of internal troops “Volovschina near Minsk were testing the right to wear maroon berets, who according to prevailing since the Soviet tradition is a symbol of special forces units. Green Beret supposed to wear only those who passed the appropriate multi-test and “worthy of the rights to their professional, physical and moral qualities.” In Belarus, such trials are held in 1993. This year was attended by 92 soldiers of interior troops. Berets have received 12.

About the accident on an oil rig, everyone knows. Already a month has passed since its beginning, and all the oil flows to the Gulf of Mexico. After more than a month after the accident on the rig «Deepwater Horizon» Oil continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico and is located 19 km from the coastal marshes of Louisiana. According to the governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal more than 104 km of the coast of the state have been affected by oil spills. Company «BP» reports that no sooner will the new medium attempts to eliminate the leak, this time using the weighted solution of clay and cement. This maneuver is called “dieback” and is the best alternative...

STS-131  is the current Space Shuttle mission. It was launched on 5 April 2010 from Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A. The mission is being flown by Space Shuttle Discovery.The primary payload is a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module loaded with supplies and equipment for the International Space Station. The mission will also remove and replace an ammonia tank assembly outside the station and return a Lightweight Adapter Plate Assembly (LWAPA) plate, located on the Columbus module. The mission also includes several on-board payloads; this mission has the most payloads since STS-107. Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off successfully at 06:21 EDT. After the eight and a half minute ride to space, Discovery’s seven person crew began configuring the orbiter from a...

In the village Bokapahari, in India, thousands of people live in hell of permanent coal fires, earning about two dollars a day on sale of coal, which they stole from the state mines. The government has spent millions of dollars to build new apartments for them, but so far that people are in no hurry to move. 1. Miners return home after a long day in a coal mine in the village Bokapahari. 2. Coal fires almost on the surface of the earth means that barefoot is unlikely to get through. From the cracks break out the poisonous gases. 3. Kids dig coal from the mine. The Government has spent $ 5 million to build 2,400 new housing units...

In the Philippines, dozens of people allow themselves to be crucified on Good Friday, repeating taken many years ago on this day Passion of Christ, despite the condemnation of the custom and practice of mass self-flagellation of the Catholic Church. Colorful costume procession, repeating the main landmarks of the biblical stories, accompanied by hundreds of Flagellants – dealing with self-torture with whips Filipinos. It was expected that this spectacle will be observed from 20 to 30 thousand people – including those who ignore the prohibitions of the local authorities of foreign tourists.