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04 Jan 2005 03:30:51 AM |
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Nature's way |
Nature's way
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1382759,00.html
The eruption of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 not only
caused a catastrophic tsunami that killed tens of thousands, it also
helped to spark a revolution. Twenty-three years later, a huge
earthquake destroyed San Francisco, with equally far-reaching
consequences. Simon Winchester on how natural disasters can change the
world
Tuesday January 4, 2005
The Guardian
It was an early summer's morning in 19th-century Zanzibar, and the boys
from the mission school were out on their customary Sunday walk along
the beach when one of them spotted something peculiar and sinister: a
large, oddly shaped object, stranded at the tidemark. Their teacher,
cautioning the children to stay well back, walked over to investigate:
the object, she later wrote in a report to the Royal Society, turned
out to be one of scores that had been washed up overnight from the
Indian Ocean by the previous night's storm.
Krakatoa
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| User: "Ian Braidwood" |
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| Title: Re: Nature's way |
04 Jan 2005 03:44:00 AM |
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maff wrote:
Nature's way
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1382759,00.html
Absolutely fascinating. Thanks very much, Maff.
(-: Ian :-)
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: Nature's way |
05 Jan 2005 02:32:25 AM |
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Ian Braidwood wrote:
maff wrote:
Nature's way
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1382759,00.html
Absolutely fascinating. Thanks very much, Maff.
(-: Ian :-)
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345408764/2338234?v=glance&s=books
by DAVID KEYS
Amazon.com
Everybody knows the Dark Ages weren't really dark, right? Not so fast,
counters archaeological journalist David Keys, maybe it's more than
just a slightly judgmental metaphor. His book Catastrophe: An
Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World, based on years of
careful research spanning five continents, argues that sometime in A.D.
535, a worldwide disaster struck and uprooted nearly every culture then
extant. Given contemporary reports of the sun being blotted out or
weakened for nearly a year and a half, followed by famine, drought, and
plague, it's hard not to think that so many reports from all over the
world must be related.
Keys shows a keen grasp of both the written historical record from
Asia, Africa, and Europe and the archaeological evidence from the
Americas, and tells many tales of great havoc destroying old empires
and laying the ground for new ones. Rome may have fallen, but Spain,
England, and France rose in its place, while farther east, Japan and
China each unified and gained strength after the chaos. Could an
enormous volcanic eruption have had such influence on the world as a
whole, and could the same thing happen tomorrow? Catastrophe makes no
predictions, but leaves the reader with a new sense of history, nature,
and destiny. --Rob Lightner
David Keys
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