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  2. List of military disasters - Wikipedia

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    Entries on this list are those where multiple sources dealing with the subject of military disasters have deemed the event in question to be a military disaster (or an equivalent term). This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

  3. Calamity - Wikipedia

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    Calamity, by The Curtains (2008); Calamity (board game), board game released by Games Workshop in 1983 Calamity, 1982 Czechoslovak film; Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary, 2020 animated film

  4. Natural disaster - Wikipedia

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    An example of the distinction between a natural hazard and a disaster is that an earthquake is the hazard which caused the 1906 San Francisco earthquake disaster. A natural hazard [ 18 ] is a natural phenomenon that might have a negative effect on humans and other animals , or the environment .

  5. Belial - Wikipedia

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    "Belial" is applied to ideas, words, and counsel, to calamitous circumstances, and most frequently, to worthless men of the lowest sort, such as men who would induce worship of other gods; those of Benjamin who committed the sex crime at Gibeah; the wicked sons of Eli; insolent Nabal; opposers of God's anointed, David; Rehoboam's unsteady ...

  6. List of severe weather phenomena - Wikipedia

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    1 Examples. Toggle Examples subsection. 1.1 Atmospheric. 1.2 Electrical storms. 1.3 Fire. 1.4 Flood. 1.5 Oceans and bodies of water. ... List of weather-related ...

  7. Yakudoshi - Wikipedia

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    The numeral 33, for example, can be pronounced sanzan, which may mean either "troublesome" or "birth difficulty," the numeral 42 can be pronounced shi ni, meaning "to death," and the number 19 can be pronounced jū ku, meaning "intense suffering." In 1955, the anthropologist Edward Norbeck dismissed such explanations as "folk etymology ...

  8. List of fictional scientists and engineers - Wikipedia

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    Professor Finbarr Calamitous (The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) Dexter (Dexter's Laboratory) – child genius who whips up dazzling, world-saving inventions in his secret laboratory; Mandark (Dexter's Laboratory) – Dexter's rival, an evil genius who wants to destroy Dexter's laboratory and take over the world

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...