Valeri Bespalov

By Isaac

On April 26, 1986, at the nuclear power plant near the city of Pripyat Ukraine. A safety test went wrong. First, I will tell you what happened, then I will tell you about the Chernobyl disaster itself and last, some fun facts.

Hold on, lets go back a little bit. On April 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near the city of Pripyat Ukraine. A late night safety test went wrong, and the world experienced the worst nuclear accident of all time. Dozens were killed immediately and thousands over the ensuing years. The disaster let out more radiation than the nuclear bomb Hiroshima. The divers were to dive through reactor 4 to reach the cooling pools where they were going to drain them before the radioactive liquid hit them and blew up. They were successful. If they hadn’t drained the pools the devastation would have been ten times worse.

Then for some more information about the Chernobyl disaster. The accident was caused by a combination of factors including operators errors, design flaws and a lack of safety. The disaster led to evacuation of Pripyat and vast areas of Belarus. There were long term health effects too including thyroid cancer which starts in your thyroid gland and makes bad tumors.

Now to something less crazy, some fun facts about the diver Valery Bespalov. Valery lives in Kyiv Ukraine. Valery Bespalov is still alive some people think he and the other two died right after, and yes, Boris did die in 2005, but Valery and Oleksiy are still alive. The three men received the hero of Ukraine award after they drained the cooling pools and stopped the accident from blowing up.

I think these men are real heroes. Because all Ukraine and some of Russia would be uninhabitable without their bravery and courage.


Sources: Sky HISTORY TV channel

Chernobylstory.com

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Muhammed Ali

 

Made By Isaac 

 

Today I will be talking about a boxer named Muhammed Ali and in his younger years known as Cassius M. Clay. L am excited to show him to you and I hope you are excited to listen to me. 

My first topic will be about him before a boxer. In Louisville Kentucky January 17, 1942, Cassius M. Clay was born. His mother raised him as Christian attending a Baptist Church. The young Cassius Clay was a poor student who struggled to read the printed word, probably because of dyslexia, according to his wife, Lonnie Ali. He discovered his talent of boxing by accident at the age of twelve when he told a police officer that his bike was stolen that is when he began fighting. 

My next topic will be about Muhammed Ali in the ring. The one and only Muhammed Ali experienced his first loss in the fight of the century against Joe Frazier. Muhammed Ali won 56 out of 61of his matches. He fought in the (Rumble of the Jungle) against George Foreman. On February 25, 1964, Cassius M. Clay/Muhammed Ali became the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. He was the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title 3 times. He won the Olympic gold medal in 1960. Other awards Muhammed Ali won were the BET humanitarian award there is another award called the sports illustrated sportsperson of the year and a really cool one is the Bambi millennium award 

The next extremely cool topic is Muhammed Ali doing cool stuff out of the ring.  those are some crazy stories about Muhammed Ali in the ring but he also did some crazy stuff out of the ring so that is my next topic 

Muhammed Ali out of the ring. Muhammed Ali refused to fight in the Vietnam war and was arrested. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at the age of 42. In 1996 after boxing, he lit the summer Olympics torch to begin the Olympics. He helped negotiate the release of 15 hostages in Iraq. He starred in a Broadway musical. A cool fact about him is that he had Irish roots and I have some Irish roots, so I thought that was cool. I hope you thought Muhammed Ali was cool out of the ring. 

Thanks so much for listening I hope you enjoyed hearing about an awesome guy like Muhammed Ali the great Muhammed Ali died in 2016 in Pheonix Arizona Thanks again for listening to the presentation. 

 

Sources: 

Who was Muhammed Ali (book) 

History Hit 

History.com 

OregonLive.com