Search results for "Disaster" - New World Encyclopedia
From New World Encyclopedia
- of the death toll from the Chernobyl disaster. Dams may be subject to enemy bombardment during wartime, sabotage, and terrorism. Smaller dams ...23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
- One consequence of the Chernobyl disaster (1986 nuclear power accident in USSR) was an increase in thyroid cancers in children in the years ...24 KB (3,497 words) - 17:25, 18 April 2023
- The Khitans took advantage of that natural disaster. Eventually, Balhae succumb to the Khitans, an emerging power in the Liaoxi area (east of ...24 KB (3,477 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- refugee camps during a major famine or natural disaster. This form of typhus is known as "prison fever" or "ship fever" because it ...23 KB (3,359 words) - 11:25, 18 April 2023
- into the Arakan Peninsula. The operations ended in disaster, during which Slim was restored to command of XV Corps, albeit too late to salvage the situation ...24 KB (3,728 words) - 18:26, 17 April 2023
- have not yet thought of. Such a planet-wide disaster need not result in human extinction if the human race were to be able to colonize additional ...67 KB (9,596 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- also have responsibility for fire service, disaster relief, and maritime surveillance. [[Image:SolomonIslandsMap.png|350px|thumb|Map of the Solomon ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 14:00, 3 May 2024
- River Delta. The campaign culminated in a disaster on a very large scale; the ... according to Thucydides, his death was a disaster for Athens, since his successors ...80 KB (11,932 words) - 20:22, 26 August 2023
- of human society, which would end in disaster. Former admirers of Burke, such as Thomas Jefferson and fellow Whig politician Charles James Fox ...23 KB (3,559 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- widely used by humanitarian agencies to reach disaster zones as it has been by the military in the prosecution of armed conflict. ==History== ...24 KB (3,439 words) - 04:31, 31 July 2022
- to purchase rank, as a direct result of the disaster at the Battle of Balaclava. ==Major events of the war== * Some action also took place on ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- sea, and made little progress on land after the disaster of Custoza. An armistice was signed, by which Austria did cede Venetia to Italy, but this result ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 14:29, 22 May 2024
- from a military point of view, but a political disaster due to external forces. Along with Suez, the United States was also dealing with the near ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986, and subsequent ... === Chernobyl disaster=== [[File:Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 2011 ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- in communication for rescue work when a sea disaster occurred. Effective communication was able to exist between ships and from ship to shore. ...24 KB (3,473 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- souls of dead warriors, an omen foretelling disaster (especially war or famine). In Scotland, the northern lights were known as "the merry ...25 KB (3,925 words) - 17:52, 22 August 2023
- for at the time of French intervention. True disaster came to what remained of France's colonial empire in 1791 when Saint Domingue (comprised ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- meters among his other accomplishments. But disaster struck again, as he finished fourth in the 500 meters and twenty-sixth in the 1,000 meters. So ...27 KB (4,168 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- ears,Stephen Turnbull, Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights ... * Turnbull, Stephen. Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights ...51 KB (7,629 words) - 23:06, 1 April 2023
- Force (BEF). Montgomery predicted a disaster similar to that in 1914 ... the operation ended in an unmitigated disaster with the destruction of ...46 KB (7,157 words) - 15:39, 29 September 2023
