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On 8 April 1961, the MV Dara took its tragic final voyage. The ship sank off the coast of Dubai after an onboard explosion. The ship was a Dubai-based passenger liner. The Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd company built the ship in 1948. The ship had a total of four decks and it generally traveled between the Persian Gulf and the Indian Subcontinent. The Ship would make travels between Pakistan, India, and Dubai. However, the ship sank on 8 April 1961. The final report about MV Dara’s sinking investigation revealed that the ship sank due to an explosion on deck. The unfortunate event killed 238 out of 819 people that were on board at the time of the explosion. People would later remember the ship as the Unfortunate Titanic of the Middle East. This is because of the large size of the ship an...

In the Middle Ages, each time plagues hit. Humans begin to worry of the disease quickly ending in a loss of faith in traditional government. Cohn observes, it changed into then, “Not till the overdue 16th century did authorities all over again arrest people. They arrested whoever they suspected of spreading the plague through poisons and tampering with food. Those later waves of worry, however, did now no longer target Jews because the essential suspects. instead, witches or hospital people had been now persecuted” (“The Black Death and the Burning of Jews,” 27).Of course, in the earlier medieval period, plague descended and disturbed government. With all the little scientific information and religious wisdom, they had been without a cure. Medieval human beings would possibly understa...

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MV Dara: Unfortunate Titanic of the Middle East

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