Disaster!
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Disaster!: Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
By Alan A. SiegelMeyers hailed me through his speaking trumpetandasked me forGod's saketo try and save some of those who might happento wash ashore.” Jennings searched along the beach but found only bodies. Meantime, his crew of four was ...
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Disaster!: Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
By Alan A. SiegelLaborers Charles Lee, age eighteen; James Marshall, age seventeen; and Alexander Bennett, foreman of the nickel plating department at the Singer plant, took another route, leaving on Monday for their homes on Staten Island in a small ...
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Disaster!: Hurricanes
By Dennis Brindell FradinDiscusses the conditions that cause hurricanes to form and the precautions that should be taken against them. Also describes some famous hurricane disasters, including Camille, which hit the Gulf States...
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Disaster!: A Compendium of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-Made Catastrophes
By Michael I. GreenbergDunea G. Death over the counter . BMJ 1983 ; 286 : 211-212 . 1978 : Jonestown , Guyana A mass suicide of 914 people was ... Shively BK , Roldan CA , Gill EA , et al . Prevalence and determinants of valvopathy in patients treated with ...
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Disaster!: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
By Dan KurzmanDrawing on meticulous research and eyewitness accounts, this recreates one of the most horrible events of the 20th century, capturing the fear and madness.
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Disaster!: A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
By John WithingtonExplores numerous environment, biological, and man-mad disasters, from Noah's flood and a hailstorm that killed 246 people to the Black Death and twentieth-century genocides.
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Disaster!
By Ellen LeroeBrings together three true disaster stories as told from the perspectives of young survivors, bringing to life the events surrounding the sinking of the Empress of Ireland and the crashes...
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Disaster!: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
By Dan KurzmanThe George Polk Memorial Award-winning historian investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, bringing to life this horrible natural disaster--registering 8.3 on the Richter scale--and the subsequent fire that raged through the rubble ...
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Disaster!: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
By Dan KurzmanDrawing on contemporary reports and eye-witness accounts, Dan Kurzman captures the fear and madness that raged through a city reduced to rubble.But in this breathtaking pastiche of real-life tragedies, the author also records acts of ...
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Disaster!: A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
By John WithingtonHere is the Black Death that killed seventy-five million in Europe and Asia during the 1300s; the 1883 volcanic eruption on Krakatoa; the Irish potato famine of the mid-nineteenth century; the Nazi Holocaust; the 1970 storm in Bangladesh, ...
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Disaster!
Vesuvius - Black Death - The Great Fire - Huang He flood - Earthquakes - Tsunami - Hindenburg - Cyclone - Titanic - Blizzard - Cyclone - Dust bowl - Future environmental disasters - Pompeii - Fire of London - San Francisco earthquake - San ...
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Disaster!
By Richard Platt, Wong Herbert YeeEek! There's a mouse in the house! In this spirited tale of escalating silliness, Cat, Dog, Sheep, Hog and friends all join in a merry chase to catch a pesky rodent.