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- 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) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- 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
- location, and its susceptibility to natural disaster. Kathmandu has problems with contaminated water supply, while earthquakes and pollution have damaged ...24 KB (3,331 words) - 17:13, 5 October 2022
- British leaders realized the scale of the disaster. Haig appointed Lieutenant ... long-held consensus that the battle was a disaster; asserting that the Battle ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- [[Image:Dee bridge disaster.jpg|thumb|The Dee bridge after its collapse]] ... The Dee bridge disaster was followed by a number of cast iron bridge ...56 KB (8,392 words) - 21:05, 26 February 2023
- memory, Bligh was in his element. In the face of disaster, his courage and leadership made him capable of great things. He could rally his crew around ...24 KB (3,787 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- clearly favor destruction by war over a natural disaster. The site remained inhabited following the destruction of Troy VIIa. Troy VIIb dates ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- of his Mosè in Egitto led to a disaster in the scene depicting the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea. When the defects in stage ...21 KB (3,251 words) - 13:21, 15 December 2022
- * “Inability is a disaster; patience is bravery; abstinence is a treasure, self-restraint is a shield; and the best companion is submission ...25 KB (4,139 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- During Titus' second visit to the disaster area, a fire struck Rome which lasted for three days. Although the extent of the damage was not ...53 KB (7,893 words) - 19:45, 12 July 2023
- On September 10, 1871, the Tribune predicted disaster. The paper reasoned that as Chicago was rapidly growing as a city, its buildings were being ...26 KB (4,041 words) - 04:50, 7 May 2024
- * Disaster medicine deals with medical aspects of emergency preparedness, disaster mitigation and management. * Diving medicine (or hyperbaric ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- far, and his many enemies turned his triumph into disaster. Prince Edward escaped, and Montfort's ally, Thomas de Clare, abandoned him and took with ...26 KB (4,217 words) - 22:11, 29 January 2023
- commands the fulfillment of the last disaster, because Xuánzàng is one short of the 81 disasters he needs to attain Buddhahood. In chapter 87 ...24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- The war was a disaster for both sides, causing 100,000 casualties and bringing both countries to the brink of economic disaster. By the time ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- To establish communications from remote locations and disaster zones, where constructing a cell network would be too unprofitable or difficult ...25 KB (3,620 words) - 02:57, 19 April 2023
- in Islam has been associated with disaster. The hadith states, “those who entrust their affairs to a woman will never know prosperity” (Bukhari ...25 KB (4,166 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- of many buildings were completely flooded. This disaster also led to bankruptcy of the heavily invested insurance company known as Doyle. The company ...26 KB (3,769 words) - 16:23, 3 December 2023
- and the attack on December 12, 1862, was a disaster for the Union. Lincoln then named Joseph Hooker commander of the Army of the Potomac. Hooker ...26 KB (4,136 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- (the "Rampjaar," translated "the disaster year"), when the French invaded the Dutch Republic in what was later known as the Franco ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- thousand legionnaires. The campaign proved a disaster. After a series of defeats in battle, Antony lost most of his army in 36 B.C.E. during a retreat ...28 KB (4,345 words) - 16:00, 6 November 2022
- * [http://www.livescience.com/616-view-easter-island-disaster-wrong-researchers.html View of Easter Island Disaster All Wrong, Researchers Say] ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- role in restoring balance when a disaster or illness occurs. Tengriism was the belief system of the Gokturks and the ancient Mongols. It is likely ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 06:07, 27 February 2023
- victims' suffering and outpourings of disaster relief efforts. The phenomenon of "embedded reporters" during the 2003 invasion of Iraq ...26 KB (3,776 words) - 04:32, 22 November 2023
- * Appleman, Roy Edgar. Disaster in Korea: the Chinese confront MacArthur ... of MacArthur. Volume III, Triumph and disaster, 1945-1964. Boston, MA: ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- foresight that led to the subsequent disaster. The 2006 National Geographic Channel's Seconds From Disaster ...51 KB (8,065 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- warning to Nicholas in November 1916 stating that disaster would overtake the country unless a constitutional form of government was put in place. In ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2022
- latter year added the final chapter to the disaster. In the years following the October Revolution, epidemics, starvation, fighting, executions, and ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- either in response to a natural disaster (such as a plague, famine or an invasion) or in response to a calendrical crisis (such as the end of ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- could save Europe from "the most appalling disaster." Suttner, 1892, 275. ===Philosophy=== Suttner argued that every war is a fratricidal ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- Poses, Stresses, Conflicts, and Disaster in a Contemporary Brain (1932) *What Should be Done Now? (1932) *The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 16:38, 29 July 2023
- The enterprise's first year was a complete disaster. Ritter turned out to be unreliable and local authorities confiscated the business. ...26 KB (3,938 words) - 18:12, 14 May 2024
- On the news of the disaster that had overtaken the crusaders, an effort was made to salvage the effort by organizing another expedition. At the ...26 KB (4,066 words) - 16:03, 29 September 2023
- In 1721, the economic disaster of the South Sea Bubble allowed Sir Robert to rise to the pinnacle of government. Walpole and his Whig Party were ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- the New Theatre (1951), proved a major theatrical disaster. He was initially mainly associated with the Ealing comedies, and particularly for ...26 KB (4,059 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- terrible winter of 1886 eventually resulted in a disaster, with many cattle starved and frozen. From then onward, ranchers generally turned to raising ...26 KB (3,847 words) - 07:33, 4 January 2024
- Asgard and Midgard from the forces of chaos and disaster. Lindow, 289-290. For this reason, he is often seen as a morally exemplary figure possessing ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 21:00, 31 October 2022
- The first near-disaster of the battle occurred when a 12 inch (305 ... placed part of the blame for the disaster on the fleet's officers ...56 KB (8,672 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2023
- small size and its exposure to natural disaster. The destructive tropical storms and hurricanes that roar through the islands are a factor in ...26 KB (3,667 words) - 18:33, 31 January 2023
- gradually brought the country close to disaster. By the end of the 1980s, severe shortages of basic food supplies (such as meat and sugar) led ...27 KB (3,969 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
- world to identify the remains of murder and disaster victims. One of the most famous forensic anthropologists, Clyde Snow, made his career identifying ...28 KB (3,944 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- marches and firing formations. This led to disaster at the Monongahela, where the French and natives, though heavily outmanned and outgunned (the British ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
- portrait in June 2004, the Asian Tsunami disaster, Hurricane Katrina, and ... effort to raise money for relief of the disaster through the USA Freedom ...54 KB (7,922 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- abject tyranny amidst a terrible humanitarian disaster. While accepting participants and help from other parts of India, Gandhi insisted that no other ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- like a thunderclap and was widely perceived as a disaster for the war effort, this interpretation seems far-fetched, to say the least. ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 14:28, 9 February 2022
- This article is about the form of dwelling {{multiple image|perrow = 3|total_width=440 | image1 = Katsura Imperial Villa in Spring.jpg|width10 ...27 KB (3,923 words) - 00:12, 4 February 2024
- that Hitler was leading Germany to disaster, although fewer who were ... Meanwhile, the disaster at Stalingrad, which cost Germany 400,000 ...78 KB (12,369 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- aid, for example at birth, death, sickness, or disaster, members of that society will rally others to render aid, in some form—symbolic, linguistic ...31 KB (4,695 words) - 19:52, 8 November 2022
- Elijah, who prophesies: "I bring disaster on you. I will consume your ... The king of Israel attributes the disaster to Yahweh's judgment ...60 KB (9,862 words) - 21:32, 6 February 2024
- desire of The Times to portray Woodstock as a disaster is representative of the mainstream's relationship with the counterculture. ...27 KB (4,003 words) - 08:31, 10 January 2024
- forays. In an earlier episode in 1947, disaster struck when a hurricane ... of Tropical Cyclones: The Dynamics of Disaster, Disease, and Development ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- in East Timor, the Solomon Islands and Sudan, disaster relief, and armed conflict, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The forces, while numerically ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- ten suns rose in the sky together, causing great disaster to the people. Yi shot down nine of the suns and left only one to provide light. An immortal ...32 KB (4,726 words) - 17:31, 9 November 2022
- with protection against demons and disaster, spells for the healing of diseases, and for long life. Radhakrishnan and Moore, 3. The second part ...32 KB (4,855 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- elected general and was executed after a naval disaster at the Battle of Arginusae. Aspasia appears in the philosophical writings of Xenophon ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- been removed. The film was considered a disaster in America at the time of ... The film was decried as another disaster. In the late 1970s, it was ...56 KB (8,968 words) - 02:19, 18 November 2022
- Diesel, or diesel fuel, is any fuel that is used to operate a diesel engine. Most commonly, it refers to a specific liquid fuel obtained by the ...30 KB (4,446 words) - 14:28, 29 January 2024
- The concert grew ugly and turned into a disaster, due in part to the hiring of the Hell's Angels to undertake security, as a fan was stabbed ...30 KB (4,791 words) - 17:26, 30 April 2023
- With a curl on each temple and a look in his eye that spells disaster. He is a Christian, he wears clothes from Khurasan and his tunic bares his ...28 KB (4,086 words) - 06:54, 14 June 2023
- Duncan against Durham in 1040 turned into a disaster. Later that year Duncan led an army into Moray, where he was killed by Macbeth on 15 August 1040 ...30 KB (4,672 words) - 14:58, 12 March 2023
- Downtown after the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster, this was the largest offer of its kind to date. Following the acquisition of Bear Stearns, JPMorgan ...34 KB (4,890 words) - 08:31, 13 March 2024
- to my words, he would not have suffered this disaster." Li Shimin, who had been impressed with Wei himself, was further impressed by the answer ...33 KB (5,278 words) - 23:26, 3 May 2023
- On the French side, planning after the disaster at Wissembourg had ... #039;s provincial armies reeling from one disaster after another, French foreign ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- In retrospect, the attack was a strategic disaster for Japan. It spurred ... it would have likely resulted in an even greater disaster. ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- in the Bijlmermeer in Amsterdam Zuidoost. This disaster, which became known as the Bijlmerramp, killed at least 43 people. At the beginning of ...29 KB (4,176 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- health, affordable housing, migrant labor, and disaster relief. ==Traditions== Fordham has many traditions. The university's mascot, a ram ...33 KB (4,668 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- violence in the Middle East, looming environmental disaster, escalating international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- defeat. To cover the expenses of this costly disaster, the Parliament of England had to raise additional taxes. Parliament continued to interfere with ...31 KB (4,953 words) - 20:23, 31 October 2022
- International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. The 17 current Decade Volcanoes are :{| | style="width:50%;"| *Avachinsky-Koryaksky ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- easy. The affair is the subject of two books: Disaster at Bari by Glenn B. Infield and Nightmare in Bari: The World War II Liberty Ship Poison Gas ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- of the Earl of Salisbury could avert financial disaster. He created numerous peerage dignities to reward his courtiers. In total, James, contrasted ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- blood drives and raising funds for disaster victims, or parading at patriotic events with their bright capes, feathered chapeaux, and ceremonial ...33 KB (5,125 words) - 23:21, 3 March 2023
- In a further disaster for the Nijō, Tametō's son, Nijō no Tamemigi was killed by a brigand as well around 1399, effectively wiping out ...30 KB (4,827 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- can be improved, even though each individual disaster is, in itself, absolutely unique. ===Theological interpretation=== This approach falls in ...33 KB (4,990 words) - 23:36, 20 April 2021
- MacAlpin) in the 840s, in the aftermath of this disaster, brought to power the family who would preside over the last days of the Pictish kingdom and ...35 KB (5,272 words) - 05:13, 24 November 2022
- managers conduct "damage control" when a disaster occurs, gathering the facts and assessing the situation to prepare appropriate information ...32 KB (4,723 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti) is the capital city, as well as the economic, administrative, and cultural center of Romania. It is located ...32 KB (4,507 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- years it would become the UK's worst human disaster, with starvation and emigration reducing the population of the entire country by 7.5 percent ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- At the time, the planners thought this was a disaster, but later on it helped the Allies. Meanwhile, the lead elements of the second column were ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how these properties are affected ...38 KB (5,612 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- quick thinking counselors of Kamei Sama averted disaster for their lord and clan (for all would have been punished if Kamei Sama killed Kira) by quietly ...34 KB (5,606 words) - 06:36, 1 April 2024
- concerns that culminated with the Hindenburg disaster of 1937. The reason they used hydrogen instead of the not-flammable helium gas was a United States ...33 KB (4,986 words) - 07:02, 16 June 2023
- agricultural system contributed to the disaster. North Korea spends about a quarter of its GDP on armaments, including the development of nuclear ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- and corporate control, and man-made disaster.Karma Waltonen, Margaret Atwood's apocalypses (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978 ...39 KB (5,259 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
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- everything went as planned, but then disaster struck. The Illyrian tribes ... However, his short reign was marked by disaster: in 79 C.E., Mount ...70 KB (11,213 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- ships. For the Christians, it was a complete disaster and it marked the high point of Ottoman domination of the Mediterranean. ==Toward the siege== ...33 KB (5,132 words) - 14:36, 27 January 2023
- accounts of the Ukraine famine, a man-made disaster that would leave millions dead." Burns, 34. ==Legacy== ===Calls for revocation of Pulitzer ...38 KB (5,441 words) - 22:25, 3 May 2023
- Safire had prepared an In Event of Moon Disaster announcement for Nixon to ... might follow in reaction to such a disaster. Jim Mann, [https://www ...97 KB (14,466 words) - 15:45, 11 August 2023
- was her "collision-course with disaster." Friends claimed that DiMaggio became more controlling as Monroe grew more defiant. On September ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 15:56, 6 November 2022
- an army against Sher Shah would ultimately end in disaster, and he therefore politely refused all of Humayun's requests for military assistance ...33 KB (5,251 words) - 21:14, 11 January 2023
- Mujib described the fallout of the war as the "biggest human disaster in the world," claiming the deaths of as many as 3 million people ...37 KB (5,519 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- and you can fight a thousand battles without disaster.'" During the Vietnam War, some Vietcong officers extensively studied The Art ...35 KB (5,067 words) - 15:13, 30 April 2023
- port of Dieppe, France. The attack was a disaster but provided critical information ... The North African war proved to be a disaster for Italy, and when the ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- After the Boxer disaster, Empress Dowager Cixi (Tz'u-his慈禧太后. 西太后) issued a series of reforms reluctantly. These reforms included ...36 KB (5,408 words) - 22:52, 26 February 2023
- Grey on November 26, 1924. The union was a disaster resulting in a sensational divorce and then record-breaking settlement of $825,000, on top of ...32 KB (4,840 words) - 00:37, 5 December 2023
- Digby and Mabel. The marriage was, however, a disaster. The first conflict came over money and Annie's independence. Annie wrote short stories ...34 KB (5,469 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- aid to bankrupt Poor Laws unions. As a result, disaster became inevitable. ==Death Toll== No one knows for certain how many people died in the ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 13:17, 6 March 2024
- World War I. "With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead," Pynchon wrote in his book description, "it is a time ...33 KB (4,941 words) - 22:49, 30 April 2023
- swimming pools, and so forth). They also work as disaster relief after natural disasters for clean-up, and during wild-fires they are able to carry huge ...36 KB (5,771 words) - 00:17, 15 January 2023
- would not necessarily, result in biological disaster due to increased vulnerability to disease, reduced ability to adapt to environmental change and ...35 KB (5,140 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- leaders. By late 1943, the war had turned into a disaster for the Axis powers, but this only spurred Goebbels to intensify the propaganda and urge the ...34 KB (5,445 words) - 21:47, 6 May 2024
- pdf The Opportunity of a Disaster: The Economic Impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake,] University of York, Department of Economics. Retrieved ...34 KB (4,753 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- prestige and the sense of impending disaster to force a series of bills ... and were later made scapegoats for this disaster. The United States Department ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- This first marriage was a disaster. Shaw's friends accused Nancy of becoming puritanical and rigid after she married; Nancy's friends ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- and rescue workers who came to the aid of the disaster. Thick, acrid smoke continued to pour out of its ruins for months following the Twin Towers ...37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- March 27, 1977, in what is known as the Tenerife disaster. The FAA has spent over US$3 billion on software, but a fully-automated system is still ...41 KB (6,292 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- #039;s ally in World War II brought military disaster, and resulted in the loss of her north and east African colonies and the American-British-Canadian ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- One, Imam Madhi, followed by natural disaster, "The ground will cave in, fog or smoke will cover the skies for forty days. A night three ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- in local government bodies, helping with disaster relief, and charitable giving ... help refugees and the victims of war and disaster throughout the world. ...70 KB (11,122 words) - 04:14, 4 November 2022
- against the Horde but the mission turned into a disaster as the Chinese army was annihilated and the Emperor was captured. Later, under Jia-Jing Emperor ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- Although the Great Turkish War was a disaster for the Ottomans, from which they were unable to recover, the Habsburgs were soon drawn into another ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- the Spanish ship of state would drift towards disaster. Yet, such was the strength of the system he and his father had built that this did not start ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- * Turnbull, Stephen. Tannenberg 1410 Disaster for the Teutonic Knights. London: Osprey Publishing, 2003. ISBN 9781841765617 ==Further reading== ...42 KB (6,381 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- [https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/disaster-distress-helpline/warning-signs-risk-factors Warning Signs and Risk Factors for Emotional Distress ...42 KB (5,944 words) - 01:28, 12 April 2023
- water and left many people homeless. After the disaster, cartographers are planning to redraw the maps of the islands due to alterations by the tsunami ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- The raid on Dieppe was widely considered to be a disaster, with casualties (including those wounded and/or taken prisoner) numbering in the thousands ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- sincere devotion to God and warned of impending disaster for Israel if it did not repent. It was from Hosea 6:6 that Jesus quoted when he said, "Go ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- with his personal role in combat turned a disaster into an incredible victory ... Gilliver notes that Caesar once again narrowly escaped disaster. Taking ...77 KB (12,113 words) - 23:58, 4 March 2024
- On October 21, 1966, the Aberfan disaster in Wales saw 116 children ... [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-42101460 Aberfan disaster: The ...84 KB (12,053 words) - 16:21, 13 February 2024
- Space disaster Because of the enormous chemical energy in all useful rocket fuels (greater energy per weight than explosives, but lower than gasoline ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- many as 12,000), making it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Other devastating Texas hurricanes include the 1915 Galveston hurricane, Hurricane ...36 KB (5,158 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- October Revolution, seeing it as a cultural disaster, and in 1919 emigrated to Poland. After living in Poland they moved to France, and then to ...40 KB (5,765 words) - 22:46, 29 June 2023
- He saw it as a disaster and thought that the conservative movement he had created had in effect committed intellectual suicide by failing to ...39 KB (5,642 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- Hittite Empire. The battle almost turned into a disaster as Ramesses was initially tricked by two Bedouin spies in the pay of the Hittites to believe ...38 KB (6,086 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2022
- From 1934 until 1939, an ecological disaster of severe wind and drought, known as the Dust Bowl, caused an exodus from Texas and Arkansas, the ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
- the site of "Alabama's greatest natural disaster." A 1000|ft|m|sing=on -wide meteorite hit the area about 80 million years ago. ...36 KB (5,209 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- for the breach thus saving the community from disaster. The French explorer Marion du Fresne was killed in 1772 for breaching a tapu. ...37 KB (5,756 words) - 11:08, 9 March 2023
- and then the Mississippi rivers. The worst weather disaster in Ohio history occurred along the Great Miami River in 1913. Known as the Great Dayton Flood ...38 KB (5,430 words) - 22:43, 12 February 2022
- had begun. The invasion of Canada ended as a disaster for the Americans, but Arnold's improvised navy on Lake Champlain had the effect of delaying ...40 KB (5,862 words) - 06:46, 25 July 2023
- under the emperor Valerian ended in disaster when the Roman army was ... Sebasteia and Melitene, but ended in disaster: defeated outside Melitene ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- php/cbp/article/download/89/90 Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1933] The Carl Beck Papers in Russian & East ...40 KB (5,918 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- of a costly war, as well as the risk of disaster as the French and Spanish were assembling an armada to invade the British isles and seize London. ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- of Independence are of the Nakba ("disaster" or "cataclysm ... to by Palestinians as the Nakba ("disaster" or "cataclysm ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
- and the whole country came to the brink of social disaster. This led to the February Revolution of 1917. After the 1917 February Revolution and ...42 KB (6,401 words) - 20:46, 3 May 2023
- France. He was on the scene of a mining disaster at Magny in August 1879, in which 18 miners died. He carried out the official investigation ...40 KB (5,908 words) - 07:01, 22 January 2024
- part of the bridge. When the worst disaster befalls the Czech Lands, St. Wenceslas, the patron of Czechs, will summon his knights and passing ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- thirds of Wycliffe's home village. This disaster deeply affected Wycliffe. Merle d'Aubigne records, "This visitation of the Almighty ...43 KB (7,057 words) - 04:45, 3 May 2024
- hundreds of thousands of lives were lost in the disaster. The Moken's knowledge of the sea managed to spare all but one of their lives - one of an ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- plans of several nations led to the disaster of World War I (1914–1918). As the price of their withdrawal from the war, the Bolsheviks conceded ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- within China and outside, as a major economic disaster, effectively being a "Great Leap Backward" that would adversely affect China in the ...42 KB (6,187 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- merchant sailors. As response to the Titanic disaster, it required all ships to be retrofitted with lifeboats. An unfortunate side effect of this was ...37 KB (5,512 words) - 23:30, 17 May 2023
- uprising had two root causes: on the one hand the disaster in the war, on the other the growing discontent among French workers Gerhard Haupt ...40 KB (6,079 words) - 07:58, 18 November 2022
- defense minister Abdel Hakim Amer which was a disaster to the Egyptian troops, as most of the Egyptian losses were sustained during withdrawal. The loss ...39 KB (5,970 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- * Cook, Theodore F., Jr. "Our Midway Disaster." In Robert Cowley (ed.). What if? London: Macmillan, 2000. ISBN 0333751833 ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- Hamlet. They wonder if the Ghost is an omen of disaster, and decide to tell Prince Hamlet about it. In the next scene, Claudius announces that ...40 KB (6,336 words) - 16:59, 21 January 2024
- be known for many years, it potentially could mean disaster for the hundreds of thousands of people that rely on the glaciers to feed the rivers of northern ...37 KB (5,509 words) - 23:27, 18 December 2020
- * Creed or Chaos?: Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster (Or, Why It Really Does Matter What You Believe) ISBN 091847731X ...39 KB (6,001 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- *Barkun, Michael. Disaster and the Millennium. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974. ISBN 0300017251 *Bradstock, Andrew. "Millenarianism ...47 KB (6,873 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- of the NKVD, sought to rebuild itself after the disaster of Stalin’s purges. Under Lavrenty Beria it continued its sycophantic role of producing intelligence ...41 KB (6,043 words) - 16:44, 14 May 2024
- their herds, the birds will cry all night, disaster will come to the grass and trees, misfortune will reach even to the insects. Ah, this is the fault ...38 KB (6,009 words) - 14:30, 20 May 2023
- by 1300, it had grown to nearly 100,000. However disaster struck during the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth century, when London lost nearly a third ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- Harappan peoples still inhabited the site after the disaster. The few people who returned to Lothal lacked the means to reconstruct and repair ...37 KB (5,691 words) - 16:48, 25 October 2023
- Mercury, also called quicksilver (chemical symbol Hg, atomic number 80), is a chemical element and transition metal that at room temperature ...41 KB (5,903 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- Battle of Adobe Walls (1874). The attack was a disaster for the Comanches and the army was called in to drive all the remaining Comanche in the area ...41 KB (6,731 words) - 00:03, 8 January 2024
- such a figure of terror, that whenever disaster struck, the Roman Senators ... on a battle which might prove a fatal disaster—all with a well-conceived ...41 KB (6,779 words) - 19:11, 29 January 2022
- After the 1953 disaster, the Delta Project, a vast construction effort designed to end the threat from the sea. It was launched in 1958 and largely ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- event (such as the survival of a natural disaster), or even to anything that is regarded as "wonderful" regardless of its likelihood ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- seems to have been prompted by the Titanic disaster of 1912. The world's first patent for an underwater echo ranging device was filed at the British ...46 KB (7,281 words) - 01:12, 4 February 2023
- The German public was not officially told of the disaster until the end of January 1943, though positive reports in the German propaganda media ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- good God must have had just reason for bringing disaster (meaning notably, but not only, the Babylonian exile) upon his people. The theme is played out ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- had been behind the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Seale, 254. Abu Nidal and Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, allegedly became great ...43 KB (6,718 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- effort to raise money for relief of the disaster through the USA Freedom Corps, an action which Bush described as "transcending politics ...41 KB (6,218 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- Biographically, it proved to be a disaster, in contrast to Bryant's earlier romantic choices, which had been smart and fulfilling. ...42 KB (6,349 words) - 09:05, 9 March 2023
- French out of the Ohio Country, which ended in disaster at the Battle of the Monongahela. Boone returned home after the defeat, and on August 14, 1755 ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle. For they have forsaken ...43 KB (6,539 words) - 15:29, 10 December 2023
- Sri Lanka suffered its worst disaster in late 2004 when an undersea earthquake off Indonesia created powerful tsunamis that devastated the south ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- of their entire clan. Also caught in this disaster were Crown Prince Ju's two elder sisters Princess Yangshi (陽石公主, who was said ...44 KB (7,021 words) - 13:34, 31 January 2022
- with John the Fearless in 1419. This ended in disaster when Armagnac partisans murdered John the Fearless during a meeting under Charles's guarantee ...41 KB (6,624 words) - 13:42, 1 August 2022
- The disaster at Port Pleasant (although often known as Bluff Cove) would provide the world with some of the most sobering images of the war as ...43 KB (6,819 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- 1997. The Shame of Savo: Anatomy of a Naval Disaster. Australia: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd. ISBN 1-86448-286-9. * Lundstrom, John B. 2005. First ...54 KB (8,339 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- of doom who are always forecasting disaster" in the world and in the future of the Church. Instead, Pope John stressed the pastoral, rather ...53 KB (8,198 words) - 14:42, 3 May 2023
- Dutch Republic, becoming known as the "disaster year." Although the Anglo-French fleet was disabled by the Battle of Solebay, the Netherlands ...49 KB (7,679 words) - 11:02, 9 May 2023
- radon gas and some iodine-131, the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 released radon, iodine-131 and strontium-90 that spread over much of Europe. ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- analysts characterized the data as a "disaster" from a forensics standpoint. The analysts found that people other than Biden had repeatedly ...75 KB (10,024 words) - 01:22, 21 September 2022
- local militias for police duties and disaster relief. These militias were usually granted small annual stipends from regional coffers for part ...45 KB (7,044 words) - 07:44, 3 July 2022
- McLuhan believes that "there can only be disaster arising from unawareness of the causalities and effects inherent in our technologies." ...44 KB (6,751 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- the full scale of the Tory Party’s internal disaster from general view. C. Booker and R. North, The Castle of Lies: why Britain must get out ...49 KB (7,394 words) - 02:27, 2 May 2024
- that protect entire communities from natural disaster or attacks from enemies; harmful spirits include the souls of murdered victims who were buried ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- of Mr. Kurtz: living on the brink of disaster in Mobutu's Congo. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. ISBN 0060188804 == External links == ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
- victory for the National Government, and was a disaster for the Labour Party which won only 52 seats, 225 fewer than in 1929. ===Opposition during ...55 KB (7,952 words) - 19:37, 16 July 2023
- never been advanced beyond the Rhine after the disaster at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, Charlemagne crushed all German and Slavic resistance ...50 KB (7,783 words) - 08:59, 6 October 2022
- Crusades in the peninsula. After the so called Disaster of Alarcos, French, Navarrese, Castilian, Portuguese and Aragonese armies united against the Muslim ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- But the biggest political disaster hit between December 2001 and March 2002: The VHP held the Government hostage in a major standoff in Ayodhya ...47 KB (6,896 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- said. The sitcom was a critical and ratings disaster, but ABC would not allow White out of her contractual agreement and required her to fill the ...54 KB (7,980 words) - 18:02, 29 September 2023
- On a political level, the attack was a disaster for Japan, rousing American passions for revenge for the "sneak attack." It had been ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- were largely wiped out by natural disaster. In early 1988, the administration established an austerity program to lower inflation. Price controls ...51 KB (7,226 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
- Tokyo's first knowledge of what had really caused the disaster came from the White House public announcement in Washington, D.C., sixteen ...48 KB (7,479 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- as icy barrage pummels the area, leaves behind disaster zone] Kansas City Star. Retrieved May 16, 2008. Kansas City and its outlying areas are ...46 KB (6,922 words) - 17:38, 14 May 2024
- Spartan customs. Supposedly, following the disaster that befell the Roman Imperial Army at the Battle of Adrianople (378 C.E.), a Spartan phalanx met ...46 KB (7,079 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- at the time as "the most grievous disaster which has yet befallen the British arms in India." Dalrymple 2004, 151. After the fall of ...44 KB (6,987 words) - 23:40, 30 April 2023
- The daring attempt proved to be a disaster with the commander of the operations, Major Khalid Butt also being arrested. === Losses === ...51 KB (7,827 words) - 00:17, 28 July 2023
- As a result, the expedition was a complete disaster and the whole expeditionary force was lost. Nicias was executed by his captors. ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- in tourism security: risk perception theory, disaster management, and post-disaster consumption. Vanessa GB Gowreesunkar et al. 2020. Tourism ...101 KB (14,057 words) - 17:18, 7 May 2024
- after my great misery" by which he meant the disaster ridden voyage that had initially brought him to Japan. During the Boshin War (1868 ...49 KB (7,556 words) - 03:06, 23 December 2022
- proven correct in the October 1888 Borki train disaster, after which Witte was appointed as Director of State Railways. Sergei Witte, [https://archive ...50 KB (7,301 words) - 10:01, 26 January 2023
- the Army of Northern Virginia to the brink of disaster, feats of valor entirely lost on a commander thinking of little beyond staving off his own ...52 KB (8,281 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- the song "Adana," "seldom has a disaster of untold suffering produced such a magnificent piece of art." He was officially invited ...48 KB (7,401 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- Europe was on the edge of a fuel and nutritional disaster, [from] which it was saved in the sixteenth century only by the burning of soft coal and the ...57 KB (8,258 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2020
- to open negotiations, precipitating a diplomatic disaster (the "XYZ Affair"). The difference between his diplomatic success in Europe and failure ...51 KB (7,312 words) - 22:21, 4 December 2023
- killed by the disease. The recovery from this disaster led to a new resurgence of cities, trade and economy which greatly stimulated the successive ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- place in many Western countries in case of nuclear disaster, with certain people designated for protection in secret safe-havens that were built with ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- banned in Switzerland following the 1955 Le Mans disaster, however the country has produced successful racers such as Clay Regazzoni, and leading drivers ...52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The city is located in the south of the province, in a region of foothills and ...52 KB (7,693 words) - 18:23, 25 November 2023
- Security Assistance Force. Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) has participated in three major relief efforts in the past ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- Ferry's cabinet fall after the 1885 Tonkin disaster. According to Hannah Arendt's classic The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), this unlimited ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- Colorado, destroyed Sunday's tent—a special disaster because revivalists were typically paid with a freewill offering at the end of their meetings ...47 KB (7,375 words) - 22:05, 3 February 2022
- Hunters of the Alps. The enterprise ended in disaster. The Italian army encountered the Austrians at Custoza on June 24 and suffered a defeat. On July ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 2024
- in Bengal however, which contributed to the disaster in 1943. In order to limit the effects of famine ‘’Successive British governments were ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- relief to regions devastated by this natural disaster. Needham, Volume 4, Part 2, 484; Needham, Volume 3, 632. Wright, 66.Michael Dillon, China: ...53 KB (7,780 words) - 16:31, 19 January 2024
- civil strife, and its susceptibility to natural disaster. Hilly and mountainous terrain in the northern two-thirds of the country has made the ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- methyl isocyanate" (referring to the Bhopal disaster). He issued many appeals for population control, reflecting a perspective articulated by people ...53 KB (8,012 words) - 13:28, 6 March 2024
- logic of Malthusianism can lead only to disaster for the home planet. A subplot in Time Enough for Love involves demands by farmers upon Lazarus ...54 KB (8,294 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- emery_and_ruiz.html Descent into Disaster?: Afghan Refugees] Middle East Report, October 2001, retrieved 7 June 2006 |region8 = India ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- . National Capacity Building Project in Disaster Management Retrieved August 23, 2006. while the wind and cyclone zoning is "very high ...53 KB (7,578 words) - 04:08, 4 March 2023
- to the continued violence and the humanitarian disaster, the United States organized a military coalition with the purpose of creating a secure environment ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- regarded as one of opportunity for us and not of disaster. There will be only cheerful faces at this table." Patton, realizing what Eisenhower implied ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- English General Thomas Tollemache, ended in disaster; most of his men were killed or captured – Tollemache himself died of his wounds shortly afterwards. ...54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
- by war, or afflicted by some other disaster. Major humanitarian arms of the UN are the World Food Programme (which helps feed more than 100 million ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- Thus ended the Spanish campaign in complete disaster, although legend would tell a different story. ===Charles and his children=== ...56 KB (8,914 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- the attack proceeded, and the result was a disaster for the Israelis. Towards nightfall, a counterattack by the Egyptians was stopped by Ariel Sharon ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- Braddock's aide. The expedition ended in disaster at the Battle of the Monongahela River. Washington distinguished himself in the debacle. He had ...58 KB (9,004 words) - 11:02, 13 December 2023
- sanctions, which resulted in economical disaster that forced thousands of its young citizens to emigrate from the country. ===War in Bosnia and ...62 KB (9,032 words) - 21:37, 4 June 2023
- usually proven to be a recipe for humiliation and disaster." Kennedy, 110. A 2005 RAND Corporation study found the UN to be successful in ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- and describes in detail what he calls "a disaster for the scientific study" of the relic. ==Notes== ==References== * Bennett, Janice ...62 KB (9,799 words) - 14:29, 27 January 2023
- mainly because the information about the disaster was suppressed by Stalin. Stalin also undertook a purge of the Ukrainian communists and intelligentsia ...62 KB (8,577 words) - 22:34, 7 January 2024
- Third, in the days immediately following the disaster, President Bush denied having received warnings about the possibility of floodwaters breaching ...61 KB (9,229 words) - 08:20, 23 January 2023
- period was out of control. Transportation was a disaster as was the country's situation as a whole. During the 1984 elections other parties ...59 KB (8,536 words) - 09:43, 11 March 2023
- woman he loves and her town from an impending dam disaster.Homer Dickens, The Films of Gary Cooper (Carol Pub Group, 1971, ISBN 978-0806500102). Cooper ...63 KB (9,757 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
- *Hawley, T. M. Against the Fires of Hell: The Environmental Disaster of the Gulf War. NY: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1992 ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- provide humanitarian relief, and has provided disaster relief in Africa, Central and South America, as well as education and medical assistance programs. ...69 KB (10,533 words) - 13:50, 28 April 2023
- Domingo and left 2000 dead. As a response to the disaster, Trujillo placed the Dominican Republic under martial law and began to rebuild the city. He ...66 KB (9,421 words) - 19:56, 29 April 2024
- Europe was on the edge of a fuel and nutritional disaster, [from] which it was saved in the sixteenth century only by the burning of soft coal and the ...73 KB (10,796 words) - 08:37, 23 July 2023
- There were, naturally, other factors, from agrarian change (and disaster – French Indochina), changes or developments in religion (Buddhism ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- army in Sicily, the Athenians would have avoided disaster and, had his countrymen followed his advice at Aegospotami, Lysander would have lost and Athens ...78 KB (11,681 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
- 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
