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...The arrival Then the heat hit him like an inescapable steamy landslide. Thick, heavy and sweltering. He had to gasp. 'Oh my! Oh my!' he exclaimed, choking, as it dawned on him that this would be his world from then on. The smell of hot humid air, as if he were stepping into a sauna bat...

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...ters beneath the seafloor. Tsunamis can also be caused by volcanic eruptions and by landslides. Tsunami waves are followed by three to five oscilla... ...cross the East Indies killing in excess of 36,000 people. Triggered by a submarine landslide, a tsunami at least 375 meters high struck the island ...

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...accompany Prince Hassan to the outlying borders of the mountain State. The earthquake had caused landslides in the hills and some of the villages ha...

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...ils. Then there is collapse- upheaval; a changing of the upper strata levels… landslides of the collapse spreading destruction throughout the system... ...le. Once the maximum pyramidal height is reached: all you get are continuing landslides of sand pouring off the summit without any gain in height… t... ...to the highest levels. Sooner, or later: that pyramidal pile will collapse. Landslides from the uppermost layers will bury the lower strata even m... ...Each accumulation undergoes its tortuous incremental changes and catastrophic landslides until it is just another mirrored pile of the accumulation w... ... ant struggling up its own accumulation of sand … inadvertently sending huge landslides of destruction and oppression down upon the ants below it. ... ...e Universe. Pile up anything long enough and you will see what happens: huge landslides... Most of what is piled up gets crushed by what is on top o... ...terconnected factors may be signaling the first trickle of a later inevitable landslide of near-total destruction. We do not know. The idea of dy... ...ed pirates, a port so full of English evil: it was washed away twice: in two landslides and volcanic eruptions and wiped off the map… it no longer ...

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...land; 10% other; includes 11% irrigated Environment: subject to earthquakes, landslides; deforestation Special notes: strategic location near Turkish ... ...other; includes 2% irrigated Environment: subject to frequent earth- quakes, landslides, volcanic activity, tsuna- mis; deforestation; desertification... ...des 12% irrigated Environment: occasional typhoons bring high winds, floods, landslides; water pollu- tion; air pollution Special notes: strategic loc... ... irrigated Environment: subject to destructive earth- quakes, volcanoes, and landslides; defores- tation; soil erosion; water pollution Special notes:... ... other; includes 1% irrigated Environment: subject to earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, mild volcanic activity; deforestation; overgrazing; soil eros... ...s most severe in south and southwest; geologic structure and climate promote landslides Special notes: controls most easily travers- able land route b...

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...ar Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Early election night, the ENIAC predicted a landslide victory for the GOP’s general, but the news media—certain that EN...

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...ar Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Early election night, the ENIAC predicted a landslide victory for the GOP’s general, but the news media—certain that EN...

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...ere's any truth to the story that in his youth he once burrowed through a landslide to get one pear? She remembered the time she'd had to lug a pea...

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...d tree plantings and the conversations thereof would not bury him alive in a landslide of the mundane. One night in particular Sang Huin was bored wit...

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...to a great height but loosened the surface of the mountain so that a great landslide took place. The house was in the track of the slide, and the fami...

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...ell off as before, and he disappeared under them like a man overtaken by a landslide. The boatswain yelled excitedly: “Come along. Get the mate out. H...

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...gy after the war? The war has merely brought about, with the rapidity of a landslide, a state of affairs for which the world was ripe. The world after...

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...s all alike. But do you see that white place up yonder where there’s been a landslide? Well, that’s one of my marks. We’ll get ashore, now.” They lan...

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...s sur- roundings. Well, our surroundings have become—how shall I put it?—a landslide. The war which seemed such a defin- 10 The Secret Places of the ...

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... the arms, led her gently towards the shapeless ruin half overwhelmed by a landslide. “Come and listen,” he said. The serene moon saw them clambering ...

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... of the steep mountains on this journey, was, not that avalanches occur, but that they are not occurring all the time. One does not understand why roc...

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...poured the Grey Observer sees: A forest of France in thunder comes, like a landslide hurled 444 off her Pyrenees. T orrent and forest ramp, roll, sli...

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...onnecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 139 gone down like a landslide when I pronounced that fearful name, and had never come to sin...

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...ht’s drive, when the elephants poured into the stockade like boulders in a landslide, found that they could not get out, and flung themselves at the h...

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... Then fears of the night beset him. He remembered all he had ever heard of landslides, rain-piled boulders, blown trees, and strayed cattle, all that ...

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...other, who had compressed about them a powdered mineral which was dug from the landslide back of Port Adams. Port Adams is a salt water village on Mal...

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...y Presi dent Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The election of 1964 was a landslide victory for the Democratic Party. Mrs. Johnson joined the Presi...