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	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Iran-Iraq War, also known as the Iraqi Imposed War (جنگ تحمیلی, Jang-e-tahmīlī) in Iran, and Saddām's Qādisiyyah (قادسيّة صدّام, Qādisiyyat Saddām) in Iraq, was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988.
		The war is also noted for Iraq's extensive use of chemical weapons against Iranian troops and civilians as well as Iraqi Kurds.
		Although the Iran-Iraq war of 1980–1988 was a war for dominance of the Persian Gulf region, the roots of the war go back many centuries.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Iran-Iraq_War (4428 words)

	Tsunami K-12 Experiments for Lesson Plans & Science Fair Projects
		Some locations in the path of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami escaped almost unscathed as a result of the tsunami's energy being sapped by a belt of trees such as coconut palms and mangroves.
		In one striking example, the village of Naluvedapathy in India's Tamil Nadu region suffered minimal damage and few deaths as the wave broke up on a forest of 80,244 trees planted along the shoreline in 2002 in a bid to enter the Guinness Book of Records.
		The earthquake and the resulting tsunami caused the destruction of at least six fishing villages and the death of hundreds of people in the Colombian province of NariÃ±o.
	www.juliantrubin.com /encyclopedia/earthsciences/tsunami.html (4585 words)

	Arkansas Crime Scene Cleanup
		Death was once defined as the cessation of heartbeat (cardiac arrest) and of breathing, but the development of CPR and prompt defibrillation posed a challenge, rendering the previous definition inadequate.
		Identifying the moment of death is important in cases of transplantation, as organs for transplant (the brain excluded) must be harvested as quickly as possible after the death of the body.
		Death is also a mythological figure who has existed in popular culture since the earliest days of storytelling.[citation needed] The traditional Western image of Death, known as the Grim Reaper—usually resembling a skeleton, wearing fl robes and carrying a scythe—is employed on a tarot card and in various television shows and films.
	www.arkansas-death-cleanup.com (3687 words)

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		War, which at any time could escalate to total holocaust, end billions of years of development of our life-support system, end all children, all culture, all love, and all life.
		War is the challenge to the modern mind as the collapse of slavery and serfdom were the challenges for Americans and Russians a century ago.
		War, indiscriminate and brutal, which destroys the fragile civil processes it is designed to protect, wastes and ravages everything in its path, and twice in our century has decimated a generation of young men.
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/abolition-usa/archive/v01.n473 (4489 words)

	PRE-20TH CENTURY GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER
		Not all the male prisoners were put to death, for the boys and craftsmen were led into captivity, where they would be assigned to the hardest tasks on the royal building projects, where the swamps which cover so much of Mesopotamia must have caused an enormously high rate of mortality.
		Death might come slowly, as prisoners were tortured and mutilated for amusement or to terrorize opposing armies and nations.
		For the whole war their death rate for southern prisoners of war was about 23 percent, about the same death rate as the Soviet gulag.
	www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/DBG.CHAP3.HTM (9589 words)

	Extreme Weather Encyclopedia Article @ Helluva.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In June, heavy, record-setting rainfall in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States caused widespread flooding that led to at least 16 deaths.
		The death toll of the heat wave has been estimated to exceed 10,000.
		At least 109 are killed by floods caused by torrential rains in Europe, including the Malse, Blanice, and Vltava rivers of the Czech Republic, the Black Sea resort village of Shirokaya Balka near Novorossiisk in Russia (58 deaths), Germany (the Elbe and Pleisse), and Romania.
	www.helluva.net /encyclopedia (3471 words)

	Death on a Grand Scale - MedHunters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The deaths were extremely unfortunate, but – in the grand scheme of human plagues, diseases, wars, and disasters – not even a blip on the radar screen.
		The death toll for London was reportedly 68,000.
		The CDC reports that death occurs in up to 30% of cases but that many smallpox survivors have permanent scars over large areas of their body (especially the face) and some are left blind.
	www.medhunters.com /articles/deathOnAGrandScale.html (2947 words)

	eMJA: Is the Australian hospital system adequately prepared for terrorism?
		In disasters involving mass casualties in urban areas, many of the injured make their own way to hospital, often arriving before the more seriously injured casualties.
		Disasters in urban areas are characterised by many of the injured making their own way to hospital.
		Comprehensive and ongoing disaster training for hospitals is time-consuming and requires federal government oversight with recurrent, targeted funding and national standards.
	www.mja.com.au /public/issues/183_11_051205/ros10697_fm.html (2771 words)

	growabrain: Death & Eternity Archives
		A death toll is the number of dead as a result of war, violence, accident, natural disaster, extreme weather, or disease.
		Death is part of life, a photo project describing how the deceased are taken care of in Sweden.
		Death’s Acre: Inside the body farm: A pioneer of modern forensic anthropology reveals secrets of the world’s first—and only—laboratory devoted to death with a behind-the-scenes look at his investigations.
	growabrain.typepad.com /growabrain/death_eternity/index.html (4274 words)

	Deltoid: Nature: Iraqi death toll withstands scrutiny
		Death tolls from Iraqi health officials, the source of US government figures, are also suspect.
		Supposing that the pre-war death rate was 9.7 deaths / 1000 per year (many people ignore the per year part, either becasue they are too lazy to educate themselves or they are simply dishionest) and that the Lancet post invasion estimate of 13.3 per 1000 per year is correct.
		She was actually fired from her government job in 1991, after estimating a figure for Iraqi deaths from the Gulf War that the administration found inconvenient.
	scienceblogs.com /deltoid/2006/10/nature_iraqi_death_toll_withst.php (2044 words)

	Death Toll Disasters-War-Accidents
		Concentration of and increases in population (the world population in 2000 was 10 times what it was in 1600) has resulted in higher death tolls.
		Demonstrations against the Viet Nam war (mainly by students) culminated in a series of large scale riots at the Chicago 1968 Democratic Convention and in 1970 when four students were killed at Kent State after the National Gard was called in to stop a protest.
		At Matthew White's Death Tolls for the Man-made Megadeaths of the Twentieth Century: 30 Worst Atrocities of the 20th Century, Minor Atrocities of the Twentieth Century, Ninteenth Century Death Tolls, Highest percentages of national populations killed.
	www.geocities.com /dtmcbride/hist/disasters-war.html (5698 words)

	death
		Onset and duration of rigor mortis are influenced by environmental temperature and the degree of muscular activity prior to onset of death.
		Physical death is a progressive process, during which there are some signs that usually indicate that death is imminent.
		The Nightbringer is said to be responsible for the dread of death felt by all mortals, and it feeds maliciously on this implanted fear.
	hometown.aol.de /chavezzak/wo-22932.html (3698 words)

	Unpublished facts about 650,000 Iraqi deaths research - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And our conclusion was comparing the death rate for that 14 months before the invasion, with the 40 months after, that the death rate is now about four times higher.
		When the U.S. government went at the end of the war in Kosovo or went at the end of the war in Afghanistan and the U.S. government measured the death rate, this is how they did it.
		In Iraq, there is a huge difference in death rates between, for example, the Kurdish north, which is relatively safe, and the Sunni Triangle, where the death rates are extremely high.
	www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=11847 (2421 words)

	List of natural disasters by death toll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Below is a list of death tolls for various infamous natural disasters.
		A supervolcano that erupted at Lake Toba around 74,000 years ago is thought to have reduced the global human population to less than 10 thousand, which isn't much, as the global population was at most around a million at the time; see Toba catastrophe theory.
		This eruption is not listed because it occurred before recorded history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll (419 words)

	Chronology of Industrial Disasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This list also does not include an estimated 90 percent of cancers which may be environmentally induced (that is, from industrial products and by-products).
		The list also does not include wars over petroleum and other natural resources, or deaths and destruction due to accidents at weapons plants or armories.
		Official reports put the immediate death toll at 31, but it is widely believed that many more died in the first hours and weeks after the explosion.
	www.endgame.org /industrial-disasters.html (1033 words)

	Nutrition and Megavitamins 2
		Heart disease for instance, has risen from virtual non-existence a century ago to the point where now, after 100 years of scientific "breakthroughs", it is responsible for killing an American every 60 seconds (see Health Trends) and a total of 17 million people annually throughout the world (239).
		In spite of the fact that we are often told that the death rate from heart disease is declining (see Health Trends), in fact, the incidence of heart disease is still increasing throughout the world (187).
		They also list a number of compounds which they describe as "bogus vitamins" which they claim are "promoted by health food enthusiasts." "None of these compounds", according to these workers, "are important in human nutrition.
	www.holistichealthtopics.com /HMG/nutrition1.html (12281 words)

	Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
		Here, I have listed the sources for determing the body count for the Big Four -- the First and Second World Wars, Communist China and the Soviet Union -- which together account for maybe ¾ of all deaths by atrocity in the 20th Century.
		Most historians agree that the death toll was about 50 million (including wartime atrocities).
		After accounting for emmigration (700,000) and a drop in births (423,000), he reckons the total number of deaths caused by the war and its aftermath to be 1,100,000.
	users.erols.com /mwhite28/warstat1.htm (4343 words)

	Twentieth Century Atlas - Worldwide Statistics of Casualties, Massacres, Disasters and Atrocities.
		NOTE: Because the first outbreaks of the disease were often spread via troop movements, the temptation is to add all the world's pandemic deaths to the death toll of World War I, thereby raising it from ca.
		Yes, histories of the war will count the soldiers and refugees that died of the flu in camps, but obviously not the millions in, say, China or India, that died far from any battlefield, long after the armistice.
		Now, if we multiply the non-white death rate by the estimated non-white population of 10,951,000, we find that there were approximately 193,833 deaths among non-whites in 1920.
	users.erols.com /mwhite28/warstat8.htm (1868 words)

	Small Wars Journal
		With telling illustrations, Jefferson’s War traces the events surrounding his resolute belief that peace with the Barbary States, and the attainment of Europe’s respect, could be gained only through the 'medium of war.' Jefferson ordered the new U.S. Navy to Tripoli in 1801, starting the Barbary War that ended in 1805.
		Western correspondents saw in the Liberian war a primeval, savage Africa-a 'heart of darkness.' They focused on sensational 'primitive' aspects of the conflict, such as the prevalence of traditional healers and soothsayers, and shocked the international community with tales of cannibalism, especially the eating of the body parts of defeated opponents, which was widespread.
		Wounded in World War I and thereafter serving in a Gurkha regiment, Slim inherited the principal command in Burma in the wake of British defeats at Hongkong, Singapore, and Rangoon; and American ones at Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, and in the Philippines.
	www.smallwarsjournal.com /reading_list.htm (14052 words)

	The Corner on National Review Online
		Some psychologists talked of Freudian death wishes while others believed in fear displacement or denying one fear in their lives by directing their attention to another more manageable one.
		He focused instead on the incompetence of the managenment of the war, where I think there are indeed legitmate criticisms to be made--so this was stronger ground for him.
		The movie, which is about the Cold War and ties effectively into the jihadist evil we face now (based on reports from people who have seen), is being screened today by Lech Walesa—I’d love to be a fly on that wall.
	www.nationalreview.com /thecorner/04_09_19_corner-archive.asp (11490 words)

	List of wars and disasters by death toll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These figures include deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, etc. as well as deaths of soldiers in battle.
		Note: These figures are included in World War II death toll.
		See List of natural disasters by death toll
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Death_toll (3755 words)

	List of wars and disasters by death toll - ! * POLITICS * ! - tribe.net
		List of wars and disasters by death toll
		Re: List of wars and disasters by death toll
		Notice that the all-time total of deaths from terrorism is a small fraction of how many motorists die in America each year.
	uspolitics.tribe.net /thread/bc0be97c-c8fa-45fa-85cb-2d50fc2b29d5 (176 words)

	washingtonpost.com: The Toll on American Innocence
		The newspaper headlines were recounting the deaths of more American and British soldiers in Iraq, as the daily toll of ambushes and firefights continued.
		The war, it seemed, might only be beginning.
		Sidawi rattled off the list of wars and disasters that have afflicted the Middle East almost continuously since he was born in 1939.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A55793-2003Jul1?language=printer (686 words)

	Tony Gill's Blog: Natural Born Killers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		There's also a very handy List of Wars and Disasters by Death Toll.
		The "Big Daddy" is still the World War II, where it's estimated that approximately 57 million people were snuffed out by other members of their species (roughly equivalent to the entire population of the United Kingdom or Italy).
		In terms of terrorist attacks, 9/11 tops the table by a huge margin, with 2,992 people -- an order of magnitude greater than the #2 terrorist attack, the Beslan School Siege in Russia in 2004, in which 344 people died.
	home.earthlink.net /~tonygill99/blog/2005/07/natural-born-killers.html (288 words)

	Left I on the News
		The current list of nominated songs appears below; for the rules of the process and previous comments (including songs I haven't yet decided on whether or not to add to the list of nominees), see the original post.
		Songs listed in alphabetical order so as not to reveal my own prejudices (other than in the inclusion of these songs, but I'm sure there are many important songs I've missed).
		But when they were simply asked to name their top issue without the assistance of a list to influence their choices, Iraq was picked by 27 percent, the economy by 14 percent and moral values tied with terrorism at only 9 percent.
	lefti.blogspot.com /2004_11_01_lefti_archive.html (12186 words)

	Iraq Coalition Casualties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Eleven bodies were found around Baghdad in the past 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said...Police found nine bodies, including one of a woman, carrying signs of torture and bullet wounds in different parts of Mosul...
		The death of Airman 1st Class Carl J. Ware, 22, at Camp Bucca in Iraq, has been ruled a homicide, The Camden (N.J.) Courier Post reported.
		The White House is reportedly exploring the possible appointment of an official to serve as a central overseer of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but has had difficulty finding someone willing and suited to take the job.
	www.icasualties.org (1612 words)

	Vault » 2006 » August
		Toybin is a list of all Gen 1 transformers.
		The Futurist is running a two part article (titled “The Winds of War, The Sands of Time”) discussing the relative state of peace in the world.
		The other interesting piece of data gleaned from the article is the wikipedia List of wars and disasters by death toll.
	www.rockerssoft.org /brockers/archives/date/2006/08 (332 words)

	small dead animals: Benedict On Islam
		Anywhere the Death Cult colonizes, a significant number of persons of another faith are going to be die violent deaths or convert.
		Finally, B Hoax Aware...everytime their is talk of religion and war we hear the same tired statement...Religion is responsible for all of the wars and carnage that has happened in the world.
		Most of Europe, especially Britian were not aware of the death camps and denied their existence for much of the war.
	www.smalldeadanimals.com /archives/004600.html (13363 words)

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