Search results for "Disaster" - New World Encyclopedia
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- themes as storm, shipwreck, battle, hardship, disaster, the dashing of hopes and death. In his epic poem the Odyssey, written in the eighth century ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- Hungary. The Romanian military campaign ended in disaster as the Central Powers conquered most of the country and captured or killed most of its army ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- *Doughty, Robert Allan. The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-1939. Archon, 1986. ISBN 9780208020963. Examination ...78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
- was initially both a commercial and critical disaster, despite an enthusiastic review in The Sunday Times by its influential drama critic Harold Hobson, ...89 KB (13,120 words) - 22:57, 30 March 2023
- England at the Treaty of Versailles. The economic disaster that overwhelmed democratic Germany in the 1920s was blamed on the treaty, which exacted heavy ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- papers. The Achebe family narrowly escaped disaster several times during the war. Five days later, Christopher Okigbo was killed on the war's front ...79 KB (12,034 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- round of Franco-Spanish conflict. The war was a disaster for France, which suffered defeat at Biccoca (1522), Pavia (1525, at which Francis was captured ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1460267/The-disaster-that-could-have-scuppered-Overlord.html "The disaster that could have scuppered Overlord ...85 KB (12,450 words) - 21:54, 26 January 2022
- for "turning Unity celebrations into a disaster" („Einheitsfeierlichkeiten zum Desaster machen“) to protest this display of new German ...100 KB (13,503 words) - 18:35, 7 July 2020
- by refugees after the 1922 Asia Minor disaster and the population exchange ... World War II brought a disaster for the Jewish Greeks, since in 1941 ...246 KB (32,403 words) - 15:42, 4 June 2024
- and in particular the public relations disaster of Enniskillen bombing (when there were 11 fatalities among families attending a Remembrance ...84 KB (12,480 words) - 12:15, 10 June 2024
- referred to by Palestinians as the Nakba ("disaster" or "cataclysm"). Of those Arabs who stayed, about 150,000 remained in Israel—about ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- says-war-with-us-would-be-a-disaster-as-tensions-mount China says war with US would be a disaster as tensions mount] The Guardian (June 2, 2019 ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 13:13, 20 May 2024
- Genesis 6:1-2, which is said to have brought disaster upon the earth, when the sons of God took wives from among the daughters of men. It can also be ...91 KB (13,332 words) - 16:14, 25 January 2023
- missions. The Austrian Forces Disaster Relief Unit (AFDRU), in particular, an all-volunteer unit with close ties to civilian specialists (rescue ...90 KB (13,119 words) - 17:56, 22 August 2023
- Japan (日本, Nihon or Nippon, officially日本国, Nihon-koku or Nippon-koku) is an island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung, and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao (December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976), was a Chinese ...95 KB (14,231 words) - 15:44, 12 June 2023
- Disaster fell upon Portugal in the morning of November 1, 1755, when Lisbon was struck by a violent earthquake with an estimated Richter scale ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- proceeds donated to the New York Firefighters 9/11 Disaster Relief Fund and the New York Fraternal Order of Police. author = Shaheem Reid | url = http://www ...197 KB (27,840 words) - 23:40, 20 June 2019
- even the navy quickly recovering from its Armada disaster, made Spain the leading European power. The Iberian Union with Portugal in 1580 not only unified ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
