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Tacloban, Philippines: Super Typhoon Haiyan damage drought Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada: wildfire Chernobyl disaster
Learn about the disastrous and deadly power of tornadoes
Learn about cyclones and how they are formed
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Warm water fuels Hurricane Katrina. This image depicts a 3-day average of actual dea surface temperatures for the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, from August 25-27, 2005.
Disasters of Historic Proportion
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Fireboat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in the Gulf of Mexico, April 21, 2010. A Coast Guard rescue helicopter document the fire, searches for survivors of the 126 person crew. BP spill
Deepwater Horizon Disaster: Five Years Later
Wide angle view of Pripyat from Polissya Hotel. Chernobyl nuclear power plant zone of alienation.
30th Anniversary of Chernobyl
tornado, digitally altered image. (storm; wind; clouds; natural disaster)
The Great Molasses Flood and 6 Other Strange Disasters
In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.
6 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters
An Air Force search and rescue team in an HH-60 G Pave Hawk helicopter surveys the damage as it flies over Sendai, Japan, March 14, 2011. Japan 2011
Five Years Later: The Great Sendai Earthquake
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.
10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci
World Data Locator Map: Australia
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Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
12 Greek Gods and Goddesses
The Battle of New Orleans, by E. Percy Moran, c. 1910. Andrew Jackson, War of 1812.
26 Decade-Defining Events in U.S. History
A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar
Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar
Sydney New Years Eve Fireworks
Why Does the New Year Start on January 1?

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Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Disaster: Challenges and perspectives. Oct 21, 2024
Add new Web site: JMU Libraries Pressbooks - Master the Disaster - Why is it important to prepare for disasters? Sep 10, 2024
Add new Web site: OpenStax - Population Health for Nurses - Types of Disasters. Jul 28, 2024
Add new Web site: UNICEF - Disasters and Natural hazards. Jun 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Natural and Human-Caused Disasters - Types of Disasters. Dec 26, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Disaster: Challenges and perspectives. Aug 30, 2022
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