Terrifying History on Instagram: "On February 18, 1996, during the Festa da Uva (Grape Festival) in Caxias do Sul, Brazil, journalist Lasier Martins suffered a severe and dramatic accident during a live television broadcast. While reporting for RBS TV, he touched a decorative bunch of grapes that had been placed on a metal structure, which unknown to the production crew, had become electrified due to a wiring fault. Upon contact, Martins received a powerful 220-volt electric shock. The live foot

Terrifying History on Instagram: "On February 18, 1996, during the Festa da Uva (Grape Festival) in Caxias do Sul, Brazil, journalist and future senator Lasier Martins suffered a severe accident during a live television broadcast. While reporting for RBS TV, Martins touched a decorative bunch of grapes that had been placed on a metal structure. Unknown to anyone on set, a wiring fault had electrified the metal frame with 220 volts. Upon contact, Martins received a powerful electric shock. The li

Violin Archives on Instagram: "Luciano Pavarotti gave his final public performance on February 10, 2006, at the Opening Ceremony of the Torino Winter Olympics—an unforgettable, almost mythical moment in his home country. He chose Nessun dorma, the blazing tenor aria from Puccini’s Turandot, a work set in an imagined ancient China where the cold, inscrutable Princess Turandot demands impossible riddles from her suitors. In the third act, as dawn approaches and the city awaits the execution of the