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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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