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  • Amphibious Reconnaissance Craft used in disaster relief]] Disaster relief (or emergency management) refers to the process of ...
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  • Assyrian accounts do not treat it as a disaster, but a great victory, not ... ==The Egyptian disaster according to Herodotus== The Greek historian ...
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  • which unfortunately resulted in great disaster and near bankruptcy of the ... trip however soon turned to a complete disaster. Many of the passengers ...
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  • Amphibious Reconnaissance Craft used in disaster relief]] Disaster relief (or emergency management) refers to the process of ...
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  • deal with impending death or disaster; whether this is an actual ... The collection of premonitions to avoid disaster proved to be impractical ...
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  • aid is primarily used for emergency or disaster relief. Although humanitarian ... and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief (for NGHAs). ...
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  • LORD relent, so that he did not bring the disaster he pronounced against them ... ::"Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us." ...
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  • shelters for the homeless, and providing disaster relief and humanitarian ... United States improved as a result of its disaster relief efforts following ...
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  • désastre de Lisbonne (Poem on the Lisbon disaster). Voltaire's Candide ... * Brooks, Charles B. Disaster at Lisbon: The Great Earthquake of 1755 ...
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  • The book is the progenitor of the modern disaster epic in literature and film-making, where a single disaster intertwines the victims, whose ...
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  • believe it may have been a natural disaster or human impact, or some combination of the two. Scientists from the Dodo Research Program announced ...
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  • for Americans to contribute to for disaster relief. A legendary figure ... for Americans to contribute to for disaster relief. Lee was also employed ...
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  • *January 28, 1986--The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The Space ... *February 1, 2003--The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. During the ...
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  • a major economic and humanitarian disaster, with estimates of the number ... flooded in East China. According to the Disaster Center ...
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  • clouds over Belarus after the Chernobyl disaster to remove radioactive particles ... * Steinberg, Ted. Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster ...
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  • surrounded Biafrans led to a humanitarian disaster when it emerged that there ... ===Lessons for Disaster relief=== |right|250px|The suffering in Biafra ...
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  • The Infinite Conversation, and The Writing of Disaster. ... *L'Ecriture du désastre, 1980 (The Writing of the Disaster) ...
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  • forces as well as emergency service for disaster relief. In this way, the ... to enforce the law, or to respond to a disaster. A similar common law provision ...
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  • *Disaster Preparedness (RT: Disaster Plan / Business Continuation ... and digitation. They also assist with disaster planning. The educational ...
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  • ==The Stock Market Crash: a New Disaster Looms== During much of the 1920s and 1930s, between long stints living abroad, Rose lived with her parents ...
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  • a slight mis-step in a procedure can often mean disaster for the analysis. (For example, a colloid may be formed during precipitation gravimetry.) By ...
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  • ===1956 Air Disaster=== On June 30, 1956, United Airlines Flight 718 ... (128 of them in the aforementioned 1956 disaster); 25 died in freak errors ...
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  • aid is primarily used for emergency or disaster relief, while development ... on relieving suffering caused by natural disaster or conflict, rather than ...
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  • its mission beyond wartime to include disaster relief—a humanitarian ... include assisting in any great national disaster, this service brought the ...
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  • a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist ... as well as natural and non-natural disaster victims. Studies have found ...
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  • * Bissell, Tom. "ETERNAL WINTER Lessons of the Aral Sea disaster ... * Micklin, Philip. "The Aral Sea Disaster." Annual Review ...
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  • lives. There are many descriptions of the disaster by the surviving passengers ... ==Disaster== [[Image:Titanic iceberg.jpg|thumb|250px|Photograph of ...
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  • there seems no doubt that some disaster overtook the Scopadae that resulted in the extinction of the family. After the Battle of Marathon, Simonides ...
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  • paid expeditions to the summit. The disaster gained wide publicity and ... team assisted the survivors of the May 10 disaster, but the team eventually ...
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  • #039;s CCP as an economic and political disaster. In Deng's day, support ... of Mao's rule as having been a disaster for their country. The various ...
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  • of its walls was the result of a natural disaster, rather than a war. This claim was in direct contrast to the claim of Wilhelm Dorpfeld, who ...
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  • of Korean history took a tragic turn toward disaster with her murder, triggering the Donghak Peasant Revolution, First Sino-Japanese War, Russo ...
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  • to determine criminal responsibility for the disaster as well as the operation of the illegal factory. India has been rapidly developing since ...
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  • the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, ... and the Asian Disaster Reduction Center. [http://www.adrc.or.jp Asian ...
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  • ** hydrogen - not widely used for aircraft since the Hindenburg disaster ... The first aircraft disaster occurred in May 1785 when the town of ...
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  • to continue humanity in case of an upcoming disaster. The message, Intelligent Design, (Nova Distribution, 2007. ISBN 294025222X), 298. ...
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  • that unaccompanied children from the disaster should be taken to the SOS ... earthquake victims. The magnitude of that disaster found the Government alone ...
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  • uncharted territories, and finding disaster victims. On the down side ... testing, defusing bombs, finding disaster victims, and exploration ...
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  • dedicated on the first anniversary of the disaster. Astronauts Laurel Clark ... stones, one for each person killed in the disaster (259 on the plane, 11 on ...
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  • The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has a Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP) with mobile volcano observatories that can be deployed on demand. ...
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  • In June, Raymond of Toulouse, recognizing the disaster at hand, finally ... The news of the disaster at Béziers quickly spread and afterwards ...
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  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the largest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New ...
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  • (which was overshadowed by the 1955 Le Mans disaster in which 81 spectators were killed), Mercedes withdrew from racing. In 1956, Fangio moved ...
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  • segments, which occurred after the Challenger disaster. ... linked to the Columbia space shuttle disaster on February 1, 2003, will ...
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  • Paralus was dispatched to inform Athens of the disaster. The rest, with Conon, sought refuge with a friendly ruler in Cyprus. ==Aftermath== ...
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  • responses to crises, to natural disaster and to humanitarian need. It has helped to break down barriers between people caused by ignorance. Like ...
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  • profits. Recognizing the potential for economic disaster, the Russian government has taken some steps to regulate commercial fishing on Lake Ladoga, ...
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  • and as Charlton Heston's wife in the disaster epic Earthquake, of 1974. ... marriages in all. The marriage was a disaster from the very beginning ...
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  • The mixture must be cooled to avoid such a disaster. In practice, the reaction involves a series of tedious adjustments to maintain the temperature ...
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  • About ten years before the Chernobyl disaster, analyzing the "Browns Ferry" accident, Kapitsa tried to warn the scientific and official ...
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  • waste management, sustainable development, disaster reduction, air pollution, and noise pollution. Because most environmental issues deal with human ...
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  • against a cruel ringmaster. It was a critical disaster, torn to shreds by practically all, and closed after 35 previews and 28 performances. The orchestra ...
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  • Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. The disaster has been variously named ... In the aftermath of the disaster, awareness has increased for the ...
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  • may also detonate, as happened in the Texas City disaster of 1947, which led to major changes in regulations for storage and handling. ...
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  • The Taiping Rebellion was a large-scale revolt, waged from 1851 until 1864, against the authority and forces of the Qing Empire in China, conducted ...
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  • to the cause of the space shuttle Challenger disaster were thought to have cooled below their critical temperature. The disaster happened on an ...
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  • that carries on activities such as disaster relief, operation of schools and charitable hospitals, and other work. However, because the humanitarian ...
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  • environmental conservation issues, disaster-preparedness and the modernization ... environmental conservation issues, disaster-preparedness and the modernization ...
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  • within sociology, such as the sociology of disaster, focus more narrowly on the issue of how societies handle death. Likewise, cultural anthropology ...
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  • the rich respectively. Government programs like “disaster relief” transfer wealth to people that have suffered loss due to a natural disaster. Social ...
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  • In post-disaster reactions, formal benefit societies often lend aid to others outside their immediate membership, while ad hoc benefit associations ...
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  • place during Uzziah's reign, and this disaster was strong enough that it is mentioned again later by the prophet Zechariah as a warning for future ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category: Holiday {{Infobox Holiday | |holiday_name=Father's Day |image=Friedrich ...
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  • #039;s positive response to this disaster contributed to a peace agreement ... *Clarke, Matthew, and Ismet Fanany (eds.). Post-Disaster Reconstruction: ...
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  • villages to prevent the recurrence of a natural disaster, and brick good-luck pavilions were sometimes built to ward off bad luck from surrounding villages ...
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  • began, but was deeply troubled at the impending disaster: "He invited his people… to a banquet… He sent his family on board. They ate and ...
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  • by her own declaration, following the Titanic disaster, as The Unsinkable Molly Brown and has been known ever after by that appellation. ...
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  • ===Disaster and rescue=== In early October the two companies reached ... * Christy, Howard A. "Weather, Disaster and Responsibility: An ...
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  • | Amoco Haven tanker disaster | Mediterranean Sea near Genoa, Italy | 1991 | 144,000 | |- | Odyssey | 700|nmi|km|-1 off Nova Scotia, Canada ...
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  • whose strict anti-Gentile policy had led to the disaster of the Jewish Revolt against Rome. In his last years, Yochanan taught at Berur Hayil ...
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  • in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every disaster I pronounced against them, because they have not listened.'" (Jeremiah 36:29-31) ...
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  • The True Story of Britain's Greatest Military Disaster. London: Portrait, 2005. ISBN 978-0749950682 ==External links== All links retrieved ...
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  • #039; fields has created an ecological disaster in Keoladeo National Park ... 510,000 m³), resulting in an ecological disaster with the marshlands turning ...
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  • republic, often engaging in humanitarian and disaster-relief efforts nation wide as well. More recently, the ROK military has increased participation ...
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  • enemy, saying: "from the north disaster will be poured out on all ... king directly that resistance would bring disaster, but in the current political ...
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  • This deluge was not universal, but a local disaster confined to the lower valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, affecting an area perhaps 400 miles ...
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  • *Campos, Paul. 2005. Disaster and Disgrace--Legal Brief--Michael Brown is Clearly Unqualified to Head FEMA. But What Exactly is he Qualified ...
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  • Indian War, which up to that point had been a disaster for the United States. Many American Indians in the Northwest Territory had sided with the British ...
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  • , Israel's only official emergency medical, disaster, and ambulance service. It is an official member of the International Committee of the Red Cross. ...
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  • credited with having predicted the financial disaster. One article published in 1929 implied that his automobile accident may have been part of a conspiracy. ...
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  • died there, just as they were; for as the disaster passed all bounds, men, ... recovery of the Athenian fleet after the Sicilian disaster. ...
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  • *Disaster Reduction and Management *Education and Awareness *Energy *Finance *Forests *Fresh Water *Health *Human Settlements *Indicators ...
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  • # Al-Qaria (The Calamity, The Stunning Blow, The Disaster), 11 ayat, one rukus, Makkan sura # At-Takathur (Rivalry In World Increase, Competition ...
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  • played a key role in sparing Bangladesh from disaster. ==Storm history== Akash 2007 track.png [[Image:Akash 14 may 2007 1102Z.jpg|thumb|right ...
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  • Gentiles (in this case the Romans) brought disaster. Thus 1 Maccabees—as well as the other books of this genre--faced a major political obstacle to ...
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  • investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition to his work ... ==Challenger Disaster== [[Image:Challenger explosion.jpg|thumb|right ...
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  • and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief Programs was created ... missions have been affected by a natural disaster, civil war, or endemic disease ...
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  • trying to warn his people of their imminent disaster, lay untouched for three days until it was unceremoniously dumped into a mass grave. ...
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  • seals, and sea lions. As a reaction to this disaster, activists were mobilized to create environmental regulation, environmental education, and what ...
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  • Gustloff - The Greatest Marine Disaster in History". ... remains the worst maritime disaster, killing an estimated 6000 people ...
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  • among Christian denominations in disaster relief. The Mennonite Disaster ... The Mennonite Central Committee provides disaster relief around the world ...
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  • stm Tsunami: Anatomy of a disaster]. BBC News. Retrieved August ... in the world. The earliest recorded disaster was the tsunami associated ...
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  • Vannevar Bush (pronounced van-NEE-ver) (March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his work ...
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  • center until the earthquake of 262. After the disaster, the emperor Claudius Gothicus restored Cyrene, naming it Claudiopolis, but the restorations ...
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  • in holding off the English was followed by disaster at the Battle of Crécy, an English victory. After this, the Estates General, or Parliament ...
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  • enable Scotland to recover from the financial disaster wrought by the Darien scheme through English assistance and the lifting of measures put in place ...
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  • exploded, and sank within two minutes. The disaster killed 635 men and officers, along with Admiral Makarov. At 10:15 a.m., the Pobieda was also crippled ...
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  • been in the forefront of poverty alleviation, disaster response and peace and justice activism. Volunteerism is an important principle. ...
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  • their residents were asleep. In light of this disaster, the mountain was designated a Decade Volcano in 1991 [http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2002/02_01_31 ...
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  • occurred three weeks after the Port Chicago disaster, in which 258 out of the 320 African-American sailors in the ordnance battalion refused to load any ...
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  • and natural powers, sickness, childbirth, disaster, distress, dreams, building of settlements, military campaigns, agriculture, administrative ...
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  • Space, but was killed in the Challenger disaster and the program was canceled ... After the Columbia disaster, space tourism on the Russian Soyuz program ...
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  • British press presented the evacuation as a "Disaster Turned To Triumph" so successfully that Churchill had to remind the country, in a speech ...
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  • cautions being given in the texts about the disaster that will befall the would-be Hesychast if he proceeds in pride, arrogance, or conceit. ...
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  • Three Mile Island, and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster played a part in stopping ... Three Mile Island accident and the Chernobyl disaster. ...
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  • and in 1885 it was his use of the Tonkin disaster which principally determined ... strike in the Pas de Calais after the disaster at Courrieres, leading to ...
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  • Al-Mishraq, an Iraqi sulfur plant, was the site of a 2004 disaster resulting in the release of massive amounts of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. ...
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  • by scholars and the project was a financial disaster. Nevertheless ... In total about 280 sets were sold—a financial disaster. ...
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  • then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned." (18:7-8) The Book of Jeremiah emphasizes the seriousness and pervasiveness ...
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  • some think contributed to the Hindenburg disaster, as well as other rigid ... jackets and inflatable rafts after the Akron disaster. Britain suffered ...
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  • record indicates that the collapse was truly a disaster. the stance that the fall was a genuine disaster for millions. ...
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  • death (and) had all been spared damage and disaster, and they worshiped his name. I am Cyrus, king of the world, great king, legitimate king, ...
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  • the brink of abdication and suicide. The disaster resulted partly from his ... The year 1760 brought even more disaster to the Prussians. The Prussian ...
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  • added later as an explanation for a natural disaster. Geologists have confirmed that no volcanic activity occurred in the region within the last 4000 ...
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  • humanity. In the wake of this human disaster, Mann felt compelled to ... and Arthur Schopenhauer, and the ultimate disaster of National Socialism; this ...
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  • City, and for three days relayed news of the disaster and names of survivors to people waiting outside.[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/technology/bigdream/masarnoff ...
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  • (Austria). The initial battles were a disaster for the French, and Prussia ... now seemed likely to lead it to disaster. Hampson, 151. ...
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  • is due on the one hand to epidemic disaster and slow recovery thereafter (1921 (640), 1931 (597), 1941 (630)) or on the other hand to an excess ...
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  • second line of defense, but were saved from disaster by the appearance of the XX Corps, under General Balfourier. Intended as relief, the new arrivals ...
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  • disasters). The ARC already had great disaster relief mission experience ... Greece and Turkey. The first large-scale disaster mission of the League came ...
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  • the age of twenty-three, affected by the sense of disaster that overwhelmed Japan as the brilliant imperial court life of the Heian era passed into a ...
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  • When the S.S. Grandcamp exploded in the Texas City Disaster on April 16, 1947, one "fragment" of that blast was a two-ton anchor that was hurled ...
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  • of 190 people and left 200,000 homeless. This disaster prompted the North Korean government to make an unprecedented offer of humanitarian aid in the ...
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  • of Netherlands, the rape, pillage and disaster associated with countless periods of chaos and oppression are presented in the documents of the ...
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  • the Frankish Kingdoms and Jerusalem from disaster. Accordingly, Louis declared ... Emperor Conrad, who brought news of the disaster. The French, with what remained ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens of other countries; for the ...
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  • shores. Critics argue that could lead to a disaster for the region, urging the Government to reconsider. [http://www.newint.org/columns/currents/2008/0 ...
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  • *Chapter 12—An oracle of disaster for those who would attack the holy city: "When all the nations of the earth are gathered against her ...
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  • ===Disaster and triumph=== Thomson's fears were realized and Whitehouse's apparatus proved insufficiently sensitive and had to be replaced ...
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  • Then people don’t dare to cross the line and disaster will be changed into good fortune. But if the king rules unjustly then, though the largest ...
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  • ::Oh, what a disaster awaits you— ::would they not steal only as much as they wanted? ::If grape pickers came to you, ::would they not leave ...
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  • Trailer-mounted generators can be towed to disaster areas where grid power has been temporarily disrupted. The generator can also be driven by ...
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  • these words would haunt him for years. The disaster stunned Jennings, and it took him several years to regain his momentum. But his time with Holly ...
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  • :If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster :And treat those two impostors just the same; :If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken ...
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  • the work just completed by the holy man, a disaster might come to the Harmandir Sahib. The Mughals later attacked it. Completed in 1604, Guru ...
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  • eruption. An example of such a release is the 1986 disaster at Lake Nyos in Cameroon. The amount of gas that can be dissolved in water is directly related ...
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  • prison, sailors, cattle herding, racism, natural disaster, and the news makers of the day. His most famous songs, "Good Night Irene," "Pick ...
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  • with the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction in Nairobi, Kenya, calculated that Uganda was releasing about twice as much water ...
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  • * The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, 1968 * Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt, 1970 * Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork, (1971 ISBN 0671222635 ...
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  • prophet, Micaiah son of Imlah, had warned of disaster. ===Jezebel as queen mother=== Jezebel not only survives the death of her husband but also ...
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  • but events were moving too quickly to prevent disaster. When the Dutch Bishops' Conference had a public statement read in all the nation's ...
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  • work was inspired by the Deutschland, a naval disaster in which 157 people, including five Franciscan nuns who had been leaving Germany due to harsh ...
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  • as irrigation of rice fields. 4) Natural disaster, such as earthquakes or ... Natural disaster. Natural disasters such as earthquakes, inundations ...
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  • before his army was ready, resulting in the disaster of the First Battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861. After the failure of the Peninsular Campaign ...
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  • in France. In the end the military disaster hastened the resignation of Britain's Liberal prime minister H.H. Asquith, and his replacement ...
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  • However, the creation of the Wall was a propaganda disaster for East ... However, the wall was a propaganda disaster for East Germany and for ...
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  • After the disaster at Bannockburn in 1314, when he was defeated by Robert I of Scotland, Edward submitted to Lancaster, who in effect became ...
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  • the Western Allies, however, turned into a disaster for the citizens of Sofia in 1943 and 1944 as the city was heavily bombarded by the United States ...
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  • back. 'Because of this, I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every last male in Israel—slave or free. ...
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  • However, disaster was about to befall him. Because of his association with a high official who fell out of favor with the prime minister, all ...
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  • * 1991. From Disaster to Development. * 1992. The Outlook for Commercial Bank Lending to Sub-Saharan Africa. * 2002. Co-author: Women, War and ...
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  • a witch in order to save mankind from an atomic disaster. ==Screenplays== *The Steamroller and the Violin (1960), co-scripted with Andrei Mikhalkov ...
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  • in the Nazi régime. We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude…we have sustained a defeat without a war, the consequences of which ...
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  • fires in the city. A legend grew out of this disaster that Wright's Imperial Hotel was the only large structure to survive the destruction, but ...
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  • and corruption within their ranks led to disaster. In the late twentieth century, the savings and loan crisis resulted in a wave of failures ...
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  • Darjeeling (known as the "Darjeeling disaster") causing severe damage ... *Lee, Ada. The Darjeeling Disaster: Triumph through Sorrow: The Triumph ...
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  • of the European guns and weapons spelled certain disaster for the Bushman, and the last one was seen in the late nineteenth century. There are still ...
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  • led many of the protests against this avoidable disaster. A silent funeral march brought out over 100,000 people. Subsequent International Women's ...
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  • Monterey to Gather Full Details of the Terrible Disaster. Arrival of the Unfortunate Victims on the Morning's Train—A History of Hotel del Monte—The ...
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  • he never himself complained, when all feared disaster he could still hopefully go on with his work. He was sent out to found a convict settlement ...
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  • tackled the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in the U.S. in 2005. In contrast to the overall national picture, some states, including ...
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  • information about the escalating disaster was effectively suppressed ... The Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1849 began as a natural disaster but ...
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  • but was forced to resign after the disaster of the 1992 regional elections ... that the left could govern without total disaster. Power could change hands ...
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  • Tasso's father shared in this disaster, and the family's finances never fully recovered. Bernardo Tasso was proclaimed a rebel to ...
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  • miles, the Chinese peasants believed that the disaster was an omen that the Mongols had lost the “Mandate of Heaven” to rule China, and rose up ...
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  • affected areas for a decade or more after each disaster, well after the lost population had been regained. Malthusian theory also influenced British ...
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  • quot;) was crushed to death in the train disaster. Grief-stricken, Pierce entered the presidency nervously exhausted. The family had already lost ...
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  • It is obvious to the reader that disaster is in store for the town as well as for the doctor, due to the community's unwillingness to face ...
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  • mostly the brick buildings. Following that disaster, people tended to build single-storied constructions made of wood or adobe. The population grew ...
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  • the Emperor was shocked by this disaster, and this may have been the reason why, starting in 740, he moved his palace three times in five years ...
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  • Much to her dismay My Man was a box-office disaster. Although she would make six movies in all (including Be Yourself, 1930; The Great Ziegfeld, 1936; ...
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  • failed, resulting in the worst civil engineering disaster in American history. ==History== ===Mississippian culture=== The Mississippian culture ...
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  • 1997). The new diseases continued to cause more disaster throughout the seventeenth century. Epidemics of smallpox, influenza, diptheria, and measles ...
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  • But what led most of all to the impending Union disaster was the incompetent commander of the Union XI Corps, Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard. Howard ...
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  • whenever he received a rebuke, he would act as if disaster was coming. He also became responsible for organizing the imperial archives and the writing ...
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  • during cleanup operations after the Chernobyl disaster. ===Military=== In World War I, the Imperial German Navy employed FL-boats (Fernlenkbootes ...
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  • from the Bubonic plague and especially from the disaster of the Fourth Crusade inflicted on it by the Christian army two centuries before. Therefore ...
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  • who are slain in a seemingly natural disaster. Job mourns dramatically at these horrible misfortunes. He rends his clothes, shaves his head. ...
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  • on an invasion of Quebec. The invasion ended in disaster in July 1776, with the army chased back to Fort Ticonderoga by a large British army that ...
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  • taxes, is a sure-fire recipe for political disaster. ==References== * Clark, Helen. 2001. [http://executive.govt.nz/minister/hawkins/chinese/1 ...
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  • fearful of the sultan's vengeance in case of disaster, privately informed Murad of the advance of the Christian host, and prevented Kastrioti from ...
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  • at the time. Chesterton regarded humanism as a disaster. In Orthodoxy he writes: The worship of will is the negation of will. . . If Mr. Bernard ...
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  • relieve Sydney’s situation later turned to disaster when the ship was wrecked and most stores were destroyed. The entire crew was marooned for ten ...
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  • more was heard of the party until reports of disaster reached the settlements on The Gambia. At length the British government engaged Isaaco to go ...
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  • give no account of the alleged massive disaster. Cecile Orru argued in Antike Bibliotheken (2002, edited by Wolfgang Höpfner) that Caesar could ...
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  • suffers from insomnia and almost smells the disaster mounting toward him. Slocum's life is undramatic, but he feels that his happiness is threatened ...
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  • Italian public, still battered by the Caporetto disaster. On August 9, 1918, as commander of the 87th fighter squadron "La Serenissima," he ...
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  • the Pole led by Charles Francis Hall, ended in disaster. In April 1895 Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen reached latitude 86° 14´ North. The American explorer ...
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  • and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.'" During the Vietnam War, some Vietcong officers studied The Art of War, and reportedly ...
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  • Jumping Man," and "Orange Disaster." His art increasingly became commentary on American culture. ===Religious themes=== ...
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  • One consequence of the Chernobyl disaster (1986 nuclear power accident in USSR) was an increase in thyroid cancers in children in the years ...
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  • The Khitans took advantage of that natural disaster. Eventually, Balhae succumb to the Khitans, an emerging power in the Liaoxi area (east of ...
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