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Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future

Book by Richard J. Murnane, Kam-Biu Liu; Columbia University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Cyclone Tracks, Hurricanes, Paleoclimatology, Typhoons

Collections: Entire Library

Hurricanes and Typhoons Past, Present, and Future EDITED BY RICHARD...Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hurricanes and typhoons: past, present, and future / edited by Richard...references and index. ISBN 0-231-12388-4 (alk. paper) 1. Hurricanes. 2. Typhoons. 3. Cyclone tracks. 4. Paleoclimatology...
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Eye of the Storm: Inside the World's Deadliest Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and Blizzards

Book by Jeffrey O. Rosenfeld; Plenum Press, 1999

Subjects:

Blizzards, Hurricanes, Tornadoes

Collections: Entire Library

Killer tornadoes, Hurricane Georges, and the Blizzard of '96 number among the wild forces that leave unimaginable destruction in their wake. What ignites those terrifying bolts of lightning that shoot down from the heavens? What sparks those torrential downpours that flood towns in a matter of ...
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Killer tornadoes, Hurricane Georges, and the Blizzard of '96 number among the wild forces that leave unimaginable destruction in their wake. What ignites those terrifying bolts of lightning that shoot down from the heavens? What sparks those torrential downpours that flood towns in a matter of minutes? Why do these merciless acts of nature lure us to our windows although they destroy everything in sight?
Jeff Rosenfeld takes us on a whirlwind adventure through the world's deadliest storms. He describes meteorologists flying through 200-mph hurricanes with winds pummeling their planes and chasing tornadoes across the desolate desert. This unprecedented work follows these brave scientists into the eye of the storm, eloquently explaining the science behind snowflakes, hail, and even the ghostly glow emanating from inside tornadoes.
Illuminating and highly entertaining, Eye of the Storm reveals that, behind the power of the tumultuous heavens, there lies a majestic, yet deadly beauty. After reading this engrossing, turbulent saga of bravery, creativity, danger, and intrigue, you'll never look at a storm the same way again.
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The Hurricane

Book by Li-Po Chou; Foreign Languages Press, 1955

Subjects:

Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Hurricane STALIN PRIZE 1951 The Hurricane Chou Li-po FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS PEKING 1955...Printed in the Peoples Republic of China HOW I WROTE "THE HURRICANE" When I arrived in Northeast China in the winter of...
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FDR and the Bonus Marchers, 1933-1935

Book by Gary Dean Best; Praeger Publishers, 1992

Subjects:

Florida Keys (Fla.)--History, Hurricanes--Florida--Florida Keys--History--20th Century, Natural Disasters--Florida--Florida Keys--History--20th Century, Roosevelt, Franklin D--(Franklin Delano)--1882-1945--Relations With Veterans, United States--Federal Emergency Relief Administration--History, Veterans--Florida--Florida Keys--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

Fearful of another bonus march incident like the one in 1932 during the Hoover administration, the Roosevelt administration shipped hundreds of bonus marchers to "rehabilitation camps" in the South. Many of these marchers were sent to camps in the Florida Keys for work on the overseas highway ...
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Fearful of another bonus march incident like the one in 1932 during the Hoover administration, the Roosevelt administration shipped hundreds of bonus marchers to "rehabilitation camps" in the South. Many of these marchers were sent to camps in the Florida Keys for work on the overseas highway project. At least 256 perished in the devastating hurricane of Labor Day, 1935, as a result of the failed leadership of their supervisors. This oral and documentary history of the tragedy is designed for a general audience as well as for those interested in the 1930s and the Roosevelt administration.
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The Italian Navy in World War II

Book by James J. Sadkovich; Greenwood Press, 1994

Subjects:

Italy--Marina--History--World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Naval Operations, Italian

Collections: History, Entire Library

This revisionist history convincingly argues that the Regia Marina Italiana (the Royal Italian Navy) has been neglected and maligned in assessments of its contributions to the Axis effort in World War II. After all, Italy was the major Axis player in the Mediterranean, and it was the Italian navy ...
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This revisionist history convincingly argues that the Regia Marina Italiana (the Royal Italian Navy) has been neglected and maligned in assessments of its contributions to the Axis effort in World War II. After all, Italy was the major Axis player in the Mediterranean, and it was the Italian navy and air force, with only sporadic help from their German ally, that stymied the British navy and air force for most of the thirty-nine months that Italy was a belligerent. It was the Royal Italian Navy that provided the many convoys that kept the Axis war effort in Africa alive by repeatedly braving attack by aircraft, submarine, and surface vessels. If doomed by its own technical weaknesses and Ultra (the top-secret British decoding device), the Italian navy still fought a tenacious and gallant war; and if it did not win that war, it avoided defeat for thirty-nine, long, frustrating months.
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Hurricane

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...over 190 mi (289 km) per hr in some hurricanes. The term is often restricted to...Indian Ocean, a tropical cyclone. Hurricanes have a life span of 1 to 30 days...over land areas. Formation of Hurricanes A cyclone that eventually reaches...
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Saffir-Simpson Scale

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...scale for rating the severity of hurricanes as a measure of the damage they...of numerous North Atlantic Basin hurricanes. First developed in the late 1960s...Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale rates hurricanes from category 1 through category...
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Beaufort Scale

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...judging wind force. Separate scales for tornadoes and hurricanes did not come until the 1970s. The Fujita scale for...development of the Fujita scale the Saffir-Simpson scale for hurricanes was formulated by Herbert Saffir and Robert Simpson...
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Flood , in Hydrology

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...loss of life occurred (1900) in Galveston, Tex., when tide and storm surges engulfed the city after a hurricane. The hurricanes of 1938 on the New England and Long Island coasts and Hurricane Donna in 1960 along the Atlantic coast from Florida to...
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Galveston

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...gradually into its own despite scourges of yellow fever, hurricanes, and the occupation for a few months in 1862 by a small...long protective seawall was built; however, occasional hurricanes still cause much damage. Of interest are the Texas Heroes...

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