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Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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Tsunami producing quakes are generally much deadly than ones on dry land. The deadliest quake we know of killed an estimated 275,000 people in Lisbon in the 18th Century, because when the water drained from the hardbor, the people of Lisbon went out into the harbor to see what was happening, and were killed by a tsunami.
Of course, when you have quakes in highly populated areas like Istanbul or Mexico City, you'll also see deaths in the 10s of thousands.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Well, the number for Lisbon are pretty speculative- in fact, anything before this century seems very speculative. Take this link, which puts the Lisbon death toll at 70,000, but then claims 830,000 killed in China in 1556, which to me seems an absurd toll.
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The official death toll of the July 28,1976 quake in Tangshan, China was 242,000 dead.
And its not long after the earthquake that hit Bam, Iran, whcih killed an estimated 30,000, and yet we really don't remember it much anymore.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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FWIW, my high-school history book placed the Lisbon death toll at 50k.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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Send them to the nonmuslim areas. We'll send ours to the places that say no to yours.Originally posted by Sirotnikov
There are quite alot of Israeli hikers there (even though its not a terribly safe area for them), who go there to "clean head" after service in the IDF.
IDF search and rescue forces, and a large group of physicians are soon to deport to several of the hit sites.
I fear that bad diplomatic relations with some of the muslim countries can prevent our (rather good and well trained) forces from going places.
There's enough work to go around on this one.
23 000 dead and still rising.
What a ****ing tragedy.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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Who doesn't?Originally posted by GePap
The official death toll of the July 28,1976 quake in Tangshan, China was 242,000 dead.
And its not long after the earthquake that hit Bam, Iran, whcih killed an estimated 30,000, and yet we really don't remember it much anymore.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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The Great Tangshan earthquake is still vividly remembered in China. One fact I remembered was that they have refused rescue effort from the foreign countries.
I hope the rescue efforts this time would lessen the devasting situation.Be good, and if at first you don't succeed, perhaps failure will be back in fashion soon. -- teh Spamski
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Had not been mentioned yet, yet it was what, last year?Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Who doesn't?If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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'Cuz it's not particularly relevent.Comment
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Clearly, people recall the Lisbon quake, a quarter millennium on ...Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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I can understand why tsunamis are big, but can anyonne explain to me why there are so blasted fast?? They move at the speed of a commercial jet liner!!
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23,000 dead
This space is empty... or is it?Comment
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voltaire and Candide have something to do with that, I think.Originally posted by Last Conformist
Clearly, people recall the Lisbon quake, a quarter millennium on ..."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Probably. But who's to say no-one's gonna write a bestseller figuring this one?Originally posted by lord of the mark
voltaire and Candide have something to do with that, I think.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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