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Boris Peter Bransby Williams (born 24 April 1957) [1] is an English musician, best known as the drummer for The Cure from 1984 until 1994, and for forming the band Babacar in the late 1990s. Biography
Date: 30 June 1908; 116 years ago (): Time: 07:17: Location: Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian Empire: Coordinates: 1]: Cause: Probable meteor air burst of small asteroid or comet: Outcome: Flattened 2,150 km 2 (830 sq mi) of forest Devastation to local plants and animals: Deaths: Up to 3 possible [2]: Property damage: A few damaged buildings: The Tunguska event was a ...
Roadside Picnic is set in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event, the Visitation, which occurred simultaneously in several locations around the Earth over a two-day period. Neither the Visitors themselves nor their means of arrival or departure were ever seen by the local populations, who lived inside the relatively small areas, each a few ...
A 1961 investigation estimated the age of the lake to be at least 5000 years, based on meters-thick silt deposits on the lake bed. [10] However, Luca Gasperini and his co-investigators working in 2008 concluded that the sediments, isotopes, and pollen "suggest that Lake Cheko formed at the time of the Tunguska Event" and thus was only 100 years old.
The Visitation is a 2006 American supernatural thriller/horror film directed by Robby Henson and starring Kelly Lynch, Edward Furlong, Priscilla Barnes and Martin Donovan. It was based on the 1999 novel The Visitation by Frank Peretti .
Trees felled by the 1908 Tunguska event. The 1908 Tunguska event—an enormous explosion in a remote region of Siberia—has appeared in many works of fiction. It is generally held to have been caused by a meteor air burst, though several alternative explanations have been proposed both in scientific circles and in fiction.
The Visitation (Christianity), a Christian feast day commemorating the visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Saint Elizabeth as recorded in the Gospel of Luke 1:39–56; The Visitation , a 1982 serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who; The Visitation, a 1999 novel by Frank Peretti
There are several rivers in Russia called Tunguska, including: Upper Tunguska, an old name of the lower course of the Angara, tributary of the Yenisey; Podkamennaya Tunguska ("Stony Tunguska", also: "Middle Tunguska"), tributary of the Yenisey The Tunguska event, a catastrophic explosion over Siberia in 1908