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Bermuda Superstitions

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Development has leaded the world. Life has been much easy in everything. There is not even single thing that is not possible. Technology has reached in every corner of world. The technology has surrounded almost everyone in the modern society, affecting both work and leisure activities. Technology contains information that many would rather it did not have. It influences minds in good and bad ways, and it allows people to share information which they would otherwise not be able to

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Technology has been now the most powerful forces of the future, transforming the whole content of the world from each individual to each piece of metal shaping our lives rates unprecedented in the history. Science has explained many things true some are still hidden as mystery. Author is talking about Bermuda triangle. In Wikipedia , it has explained The Bermuda Islands or The Somers Isles) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1770 km (1,100 mi) northeast of Miami, Florida and 1350 km (840 mi) south of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Trying to find a reason for anything and everything that occurs on, under and over the surface of the earth its nature of science. If there is anything that science cannot explain then it be either dubbed or superstitions. Such mystery churned out after years of inhabiting in this earth is Bermuda triangle. There is big history for every individual about Bermuda Island or Bermuda triangle. If we ask to any one about Bermuda we will get the answer that it is the place of death that it sucks every thing but still there is lack in logical explanation for its existence other then as a Nature superiority over mankind.

In 1942, Weird disappearances and sightings in the Bermuda triangle date back when the first long journey by water to America took place. While sailing through the imaginary line Christopher Columbus wrote of weird sightings in the ship log he and his crew had observed a large ball of fire fall into the sea and that the ship's compass was behaving differently. On October 11, which is the day Columbus landed on Cuba, Columbus and another man saw a light over the water, which disappeared suddenly. These incidents have known to be the first indications that the Bermuda Triangle is filled with markedly unusual happening where Columbus was not himself apparently bothered by what he had just seen. The logical explanation for that happening was given as that large ball of fire might have been a meteor, a fire on the shore, a torch in an Indian's boat or even a something that does not exist outside the mind. Whatever it was Chris Columbus provided the Bermuda Triangle with a five hundred-year story.

The Most Famous Bermuda Triangle Incident was Flight 19. Many ships and planes were lost in triangle leaving behind unknown explanation but flight 19 is the most famous incident. It was already 4 month that world war II had over. Still it was the mission for the thirteen men to fly due east which was 56 miles to hens and chicken shoals to conduct practice-bombing runs. After that objective had been completed, the flight plan called for them to fly an additional sixty-seven miles east, and then turn north for seventy-three miles and finally straight back to base. This course would take them on a triangular path over the sea. About an hour and a half Lt. Taylor reported that his compass is broken and its not working. Planes today have a number of ways that they can check their current position, including listening to a set of GPS (Global Positioning Satellites) in orbit around the Earth. He was a good pilot, but he hadn't spent a lot of time flying east toward the Bahamas, which was where he was going on that day. Apparently Taylor had become confused at some point in the flight. For some reason

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