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Forty years ago this week, the deadliest blizzard on record ripped through the lower Caucasus and into Iran, where it left 4,000 people dead.

The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

  More than 33 years after a radiation accident turned the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant into an exclusion zone, scientists have distilled the first consumer product to come from the abandoned area: an artisan vodka.