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Vast geologic forces stir in the Tuscarora Deep, a submarine trench facing Japan. Last week a section of the ocean floor gave way, creating a violent tremor. Ten-foot seismic waves of water thundered toward the main home island of Honshu, raced up the funnel neck of Kii Strait, dealt sleeping villages across 60,000 square miles six shattering blows in three hours. Tokyo newspapers called it the worst disaster since the great earthquake of September 1923, which killed 143,000. Said famed Fordham Seismologist Father Joseph J. Lynch: "A ripsnorter...
...Shino Point in Kii...
...Tokyo, Medium Kii Tsuchiya wrote: ''When I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, I read my destiny. I found it was my lot to die a sudden and unexpected death. I am old and do not wish to die in an automobile accident or be killed under falling debris. I want to die peacefully, at home.'' She did. She stepped into the family well...
...would have been dead at 19, when he tried to round off a rag-picking childhood and 15 years of poverty-pinched wandering, by a bullet through his lung. An operation saved him. He began to write for provincial newspapers, under the name Maxim Gorki (from gor'kii, "the bitter one"), then sociological novels and plays. He joined the Social Democrats, later the Bolshevist wing, was arrested on Bloody Sunday (January 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg. Exiled till 1913, he lived in Capri, corresponding with Lenin and working for the labor movement. After the Revolution he dedicated himself...
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