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  • There had been much prophecy of a disaster befalling London in 1666, since in Hindu-Arabic numerals it included the Number of the Beast and in ...
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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 ...
    14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
  • and natural powers, sickness, childbirth, disaster, distress, dreams, building of settlements, military campaigns, agriculture, administrative ...
    14 KB (2,153 words) - 00:58, 18 November 2022
  • Space, but was killed in the Challenger disaster and the program was canceled ... After the Columbia disaster, space tourism on the Russian Soyuz program ...
    31 KB (4,415 words) - 16:01, 27 November 2023
  • British press presented the evacuation as a "Disaster Turned To Triumph" so successfully that Churchill had to remind the country, in a speech ...
    14 KB (2,148 words) - 15:36, 30 April 2023
  • 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 ...
    28 KB (4,425 words) - 15:12, 21 May 2024
  • 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 ...
    40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
  • 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 ...
    29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
  • 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 ...
    35 KB (5,541 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
  • 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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