about 4.8 million people homeless‚ though the number could be as high as 11 million. Approximately 15 million people lived in the affected area. It was the deadliest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake‚ which killed at least 240‚000 people‚ and the strongest since the 1950 Chayu earthquake in the country. It is the 21st deadliest earthquake of all time. Extent of tremors * China (Mainland): All regions except Xinjiang‚ Jilin and Heilongjiang were physically affected by the
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c) In what ways did the understanding of the treatment of disease change in the years 1860-1945? The treatment of disease changed dramatically in the years 1860-1845 due to the changes of how people understand it‚ how each discovery such as Pasteur’s opens new doors‚ leading to other discoveries such Koch’s identification of germs‚ the magic bullet and discovery of penicillin. this has help society to understand the causes of disease‚ and the ways to tackle it. These discoveries began in
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The Columbian Exchange considerably changed nearly every society in the world from flowing an abundance of new livestock and crops that increased the world human population‚ but also carried deadly diseases that demolished many civilizations. So‚ how did disease impact the New World? There are many reasons as to how disease impacted the New World and brought many people into serious danger; for example: lack of sanitization‚ weak immunity‚ and lack of vaccination. Diseases that expanded throughout
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size and strength makes them one of the top predators in Florida and with no natural enemies they are thriving. Everglades National Park and Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission are working together on the Burmese python problem‚ one of the deadliest and competitive predators in the everglades. In January 2012 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Commission issued a ban on the importation of these pythons also prohibiting the sale to unregistered owners. To combat population of these snakes Fl Fish and
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Amazon river‚ the top predator in the Amazon river is the anaconda. The anaconda is 15 ft long. They are found in South America. They can swallow a whole human and the only way out is if you can cut yourself free. South America is one of the most deadliest continents
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Every Hero Has a Downfall A look At Tragic Hero Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter I. Hawthorne presents Dimmesdale as a tragic hero through Dimmesdale’s fixation on his reputation‚ as well as his struggle with guilt throughout the novel. II. Hawthorne uses an evil register of diction and repetition to establish Chillingworth as the antagonist of Dimmesdale. A. “...It grew to be a widely diffused opinion that the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale‚ like many other
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should not have occurred due to the deaths‚ assassination of Abraham Lincoln‚ Jim Crow laws‚ and reconstruction. The Civil War caused a significant amount of deaths. Because of diseases‚ battle wounds and poor quality prisons‚ “The Civil War was the deadliest war in the history of the United States.”6 The civil war produced the largest amount of deaths in an American war‚ there waere about 620‚000 casualties. The amount of casualties in the Civil War was greater than the American deaths in the Revolutionary
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Bibliography: Simmons (2005‚ September 11). 5 deadliest effects of Global Warming‚ Retrieved February 28 2008 from http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sciencetech/5-deadliest-effects-of-global-warming/276Staff Writers (2007‚ February 27). Climate Science‚ retrieved March 2 2008 from http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Banning_New_Coal_Power_Plants_Will_Slow_Warming_999Forest
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World War two‚ the deadliest war to ever take place‚ began on September first‚ 1939‚ and ended six long years later on September second‚ 1945‚ with over sixty million casualties. Eleven million of these casualties were caused by the concentration camps of the Holocaust‚ or the systematic killing of six and a half million Jews and five million others by the Nazi’s. The children of the Holocaust were the worst off. They weren’t given much chance at survival. All children under the age of twelve were
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23 The assassination is often credited as the shot that started World War I since it set off a chain reaction that ultimately began the war. Although the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand would ultimately lead to one of the largest and deadliest wars to ever be fought in history‚ at the time of the event most people did
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