
Air raid drills during the Cold War, when school children were told to duck and cover and hope for the best, seem somewhat preposterous compared to black-and-white footage of atomic bombs leveling a small town in a matter of seconds. Thankfully, gauging the effectiveness of this safety maneuver in reality never came to pass. The Red Threat may now be a distant memory, but the sentiment of preparing for the worst remains – in more ways than one.

As you all know, on December 21, 2012 the rivers and oceans will fill with lava and we will all drown in a sea of fire tornadoes and locust clouds. But until then we’ve got one year left to celebrate.
The mysterious deaths gripped the nation back in the 1920s and 30s.
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