Pages tagged with Disaster
A rigid airship, gas capacity 7,062,100 cubic feet, this monster was powered by four 1,100-horsepower diesel engines, with a cruising speed around 80mph. This ship could easily cross the Atlantic ocean in three days or less, far quicker than any surface vessel.
Bangladeshi army units, alongside fire service personnel and local volunteers, who between them have apparently to rescued about 1,000 people from under the rubble.
How we prepare for and understand the way of natural disaster but see the recession differently
This Poem is about Poverty. It is said that Poverty is a mind-set and manifests after polluting the mind. Poverty is beyond just physical lack or non-possession of material things, because it affects even those in possession of such things.
Hindenburg was 804-ft long airship, built in Germany, that was filled with highly flammable hydrogen gas - this was used because at the time of it being built, the Nazi party was in power in Germany, and the USA refused to supply the builders with the Helium gas they wanted.
Greed and short sightedness –the longing for the easy route to wealth – were undoubtedly the main causes of an event whose repercussions would be felt for decades afterwards.
The first step to becoming a successful entrepreneur is to project the start up costs of your prospective business. Costs vary greatly, depending on your product or service, but here are some basic guidelines to help you lay the foundations of your business.
Fixed and variable costs ...
The problem is that the gigantic vessel has been suspended precariously the past eight months on two rocks, a structural collapse and plunge into deep waters apparently very likely.
Global weather is offering encouragement to a whole range of deadly diseases that we know of - and possibly some that as yet we are still unaware of - to thrive and threaten the future of the human race.
When a diet of human flesh is simply a matter of basic survival, the rules of society get forgotten, life just too precious to give up easily, whatever the price.
How can you survive if stuck in the wild with nothing but a pen, pencils, a sharpener, a notebook and an eraser? Read on for some simple suggestions.
Wearing a life-belt, he claimed to have jumped 50 ft leap into icy waters, kept afloat by a large chunk of ice until he was seen and picked up by one of the lifeboats, some two hours after immersion
Aceh, people of Indonesia also called as "The Terrace of Mecca", has magnificent dance, Saman Dance..
Build a chair, paint a wall, put together a bookcase, but when it comes to your home, Do Not Do It Yourself!
Originally, the plans had called for it to be filled with Helium far less flammable than hydrogen, but US refusal to export helium to Germany meant Hydrogen having to be used.
Now my second story. This talks about a guy who was so dysfunctional and suspended, when he met this girl. Just read through to see what happened. Please note that initially, I wrote this as a story, so I decided to modify it into a poem. Hope you enjoy it!
By the early 1900’s, the world economy took its lead from the US, and the atmosphere on Wall Street was electric. Due largely to the vast wealth created by the railroads, as America opened up, and the speedy communications afforded by the newly invented telegraph, fortunes were mad...
We tell a bout raising apples in Idaho.
We learned how as we went asked a lot of questions but we got the job done.
No matter how well we think have prepared our defenses in advance, nature is simply too strong to be held at bay, when she exercises her fury on such a gigantic and destructive scale as she does whenever an earthquake ruptures the sea floor.
The year of 2012 is considered as world ending year as many scientists all over the world has predicted that world will come to an end this year
About 100,000 tons of solid matter punctures our atmosphere every year, the vast majority as minute particles – those ‘shooting stars’ burning up on their way down – thousands land every day, though no casualties have ever been reported.
Do not force yourself to save something, if you are in a difficult situation.
Hearts go out to all residents of Christchurch, New Zealand as they are hit by yet another series of earthquakes just two days before Christmas.
