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…. The Ampitheater has been partially ruined from earthquakes and a fire. The Colosseum is now used once a year by the Pope on Good Friday that honors all the hundreds of people that died with in its walls…

…people die everyday of hunger.” The worst earthquake in modern history--in China in 1976--killed 242,000 people. Hunger kills that many people every seven days”(1. Praeger). Many reasons cause hunger such as transportation, population growth and land shortage…

…suffering, like the civil war in Colombia, and the earthquakes in India? Well, whoever said God was here to protect us, or that he intended to create perfect beings that would live happily in a house with a white picket fence. It is crazy to think that we…

…of the disease, nor how to protect themselves from it. “It was said that the cause of the Pestilence or The Great Mortality -- 14th-century names for the contagion -- was a particularly sinister alignment of the planets, or a foul wind created by recent earthquakes…

…about a decision that really makes us choose between the lesser of two evils? I though you’d never ask. Hypothetical situation: You are staying in a quaint, forest cabin with your family. An earthquake hits in the middle of the night sending tons of snow…

…no-win situation. What about a decision that really makes us choose between the lesser of two evils? I though you’d never ask. Hypothetical situation: You are staying in a quaint, forest cabin with your family. An earthquake hits in the middle…

…streams of medieval rats and their fleas. Some time in the late 1340’s the bacteria made its way from rats to warm blooded mammals like humans. Due to earthquakes and other environmental occurrences, medieval rats were forced to cross the paths of humans…

…are sick," he had written her seven years earlier, "I am like the inhabitants of countries visited by earthquakes." She was still a convalescent, at a seaside resort in New Jersey, when he was shot by a demented assassin on July 2. She returned to Washington…

…stretching doesn’t make you look any better. Sure you’ll see someone do a bend here and toe-touch there, but an individually motivated, daily, thorough stretch routine is about as rare as earthquake in Florida…

…for an ideal, but because her disastrous destiny is predicted by fate. Oedipus’ sin has now haunted his daughter as well. The Chorus admits this, saying "For once a family is cursed by God, disasters come like earthquake tremors, worse with each succeeding…