Results: Taking a step back in time. (2)Do you remember?
Published on 05/24/2025
Taking a step back in time. Do you remember 1. Sago Mine Disaster? 2. Thailand Cave Rescue ? Stem cell event against HIV ? 4. Masha Amini ? 5. Chinese Spy Balloon ?
For those not interested, just select the N/A option. For those interested, enjoy stepping back in time.

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Sago Mine Disaster (2006)- The tragic event happened on Jan. 2, 2006 when the Sago Mine in Upshur County, West Virginia, exploded. Of the thirteen miners, Randal L. McCloy Jr., 26, was the only survivor from those trapped at the Sago mine. He was removed from the site at approximately 1:30 a.m. on January 4, 2006. There was a miscommunication from rescue workers that more miners were alive than just Randall McCloy. Do you recall this event?
Yes
32%
606 votes
No
51%
967 votes
Not Applicable
17%
327 votes
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12 Boys trapped in a Thailand Cave (2018) How Divers Successfully Saved 12 Thai Boys Trapped In A Cave | Operation Thai Cave Rescue After 15 days of being trapped inside a pitch black underground cave complex, a group of volunteer divers find 12 Thai boys and bring them back to safety. Do you remember this event?
Yes
61%
1166 votes
No
23%
437 votes
Not Applicable
16%
297 votes
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City of Hope Patient (2021) In July 2022, City of Hope announced that a 66-year-old man who had been HIV-positive for over 30 years had gone into remission for acute myeloid leukemia and HIV thanks to a transplant using stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation, homozygous CCR5 Delta 32. The mutation makes people who carry it resistant to acquiring HIV. Of the five people in the world who have achieved remission for both diseases after receiving a transplant with the rare mutation, the man was the oldest in the group and the person who had had HIV the longest. At the time, Paul Edmonds, 67, of Desert Hot Springs, California, wished to remain anonymous. But now he is telling his story. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks the body's immune system. If HIV is not treated, it can lead to AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). Do you recall the news event of using stem cells from a non-HIV person leading to the remission of an HIV patient?
Yes
14%
262 votes
No
68%
1298 votes
Not Applicable
18%
340 votes
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Masha Amini ( 2022) The protests began in September when "morality police" in Tehran arrested Mahsa Amini, a twenty-two-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman visiting Iran's capital city, for failing to cover her hair properly. She died in police custody. When the news reached her hometown of Saqqez in northwestern Iran, hundreds of people gathered to condemn her death and Iran's mistreatment of women. The protests quickly spread throughout the country as Iranians across social, class, and ethnic lines marched to the slogan: "Women, life, freedom!" Iranian leaders blamed the United States and Israel for engineering the protests, though the driving force was the government's political repression, corruption, and mismanagement of the economy. The government tried to quell the protests with force. By December, Iranian security forces had killed as many as 450 protestors on the streets, and the government had begun publicly executing protestors convicted in rushed trials for crimes against the state. Do you recall this news event ?
Yes
30%
571 votes
No
52%
992 votes
Not Applicable
18%
337 votes
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Chinese Spy Balloon ( 2023) Chinese spy balloon that traversed US airspace was packed with American tech. The 200-foot-tall balloon was loaded with a satellite communication module, sensors and other technology from at least five American firms. The craft — which floated from Alaska over Canada and into the US Midwest before it was shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, 2023 — could have collected detailed data on oblivious Americans, the sources said, citing what was discovered in parts of the recovered balloon. That included tech to survey, take photographs and collect other intelligence data — and even launchable gliders that could have flown on other recon missions, the sources said, citing the classified military report. The balloon also had a communications system by Iridum, along with tech from four other US companies: Texas Instruments, Omega Engineering, Amphenol All Sensors Corporation and onsemi, the report said, noting other equipment from at least one Swiss company. Do you recall this event?
Yes
62%
1178 votes
No
22%
420 votes
Not Applicable
16%
302 votes
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