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A Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 novel written by Nancy Farmer. The book explores the qualities needed to survive in a hostile environment (particularly by a woman), coming-of-age , and the availability of spiritual guidance.
Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona.She earned her B.A. at Reed College (1963) and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley. [3] She enlisted in the Peace Corps (1963–1965), and subsequently worked in Mozambique and Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly between 1975 and 1978.
Midnight in Chernobyl (2019) by Adam Higginbotham (reexamines the disaster using up-to-date reports and historical archives). [2] Out of Chernobyl: A Girl Named Olga (2008) by Maureen A. White (memoir about raising a Chernobyl survivor named Olga, a young girl who immigrated to Canada and attended school in the province of Nova Scotia). [3]
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The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan, on 16 August 1987, killing 154 of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured.
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The photograph, widely known as Disaster Girl, depicts a young girl staring into the camera while a building burns behind her. Disaster Girl is a meme photograph featuring a young girl staring at the camera with a structure fire behind her. [1] [2] [3] The girl in the photo, Zoë Roth, was four years old when the photo was taken in 2005. [4]
She gets strange visions of disasters, and it seems like a symbol passed down from her mother is the only way to prevent them. But when a strange spirit called "gui sou" starts stalking Soo-ling and threatening the biggest disaster yet, she will have to use friendship, tradition, and her imagination to save the day. Ray Gun Tim Maleeny