Previously called the “Golden Lady”, the Star held 402 and a half steerage passengers and 15 first class. This novel tells a few stories within itself, mostly from the point of view of Dixon, who is a journalist. Chapter 4 introduces the familiar character Pius Mulvey, who we later discover in who what the passenfers call “the ghost”. The reason to his strange behavior at night is to find a way to kill Merrdith, a 1st class passenger, for revenge. Coffin ships were mostly filthy and disease ridden, The Star was no different, on the 5th day of the 20 week voyage 4 steerage passengers die of typhus.
Danielle Nicole Ford Forensic Science January 27, 2011 THOMAS CAPANO ACCIDENT OR MURDER Thomas J. Capano (born October 11, 1949) is a disbarred American lawyer from Wilmington, Delaware, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of his lover Anne Marie Fahey. The case made headlines because Capano is from a wealthy family and was a former deputy attorney general of Delaware. In 1994 Capano was a partner at the Wilmington office of the law firm Saul Ewing LLP when he became involved with Anne Marie Fahey, the 28-year-old appointments secretary to then-Governor Thomas R. Carper. Fahey did not want to continue her affair with Capano. Fahey had been attempting to end her relationship with the married Capano and had begun seeing another man.
3. The conveyor malfunctioned and failed to stop when the client reached the top of the lift. The conveyor had been in use for twenty-five years, her employer replaced it the day after the accident. The employer dismantled the conveyor and disposed of many of the important parts. 4.
“Gentlemen Your Verdict” by Michael Bruce, is a story that begins in a court room. The men in the courtroom were survivors of a submarine crash. There were 20 men in the submarine originally at the beginning of their trip. But when they crashed at the bottom of the ocean, the captain estimated that it would take a week for rescue, and the crew had 3 days of air. Someone had to go, but whom?
7th November, 2014 Local Hazards Maidstone River flooding- River Medway flooding, (Dec 2013- Jan 2014) * Said to be the worst flooding in the area for more than 100 years * Homes in Yalding were evacuated on boxing day due to rising water levels * Thousands left without power on Christmas day, 4,869 homes still without power on boxing day * Kent fire and rescue service called off their planned strike due to the incident * Coastguard teams and four water rescue teams were drafted in * 80 people were rescued from a caravan park in Yalding after 2ft of water flooded caravans * Flooding spread across Maidstone town centre, flooding right along high street as well as A229 closures, and the bridge system was closed over Christmas day. Storms (Depressions)- tail end of hurricane Gonzalo * Firstly affected Bermuda, brought over by jet stream of low pressure * Brought hurricane force winds up to 75mph * Heavy rain in Maidstone * Medium flood warning implemented Snow- 2010 snow storm * Caused much disruption, with an average of 3 days off school for secondary schools in and around the Maidstone area. * Caused south-eastern train disruption, such as London to Ashford via Maidstone * Overnight temperatures plummeted to -7C * More than 100 schools closed * Continuous snowfall in Maidstone for 14 hours Kent Storm- ‘The great storm’, 1987 * 22 people died, 4 deaths in Kent * 6/7 oak trees in Sevenoaks were destroyed * Several lorries overturned on the M2 * Said to be the worst storm in 300 years * Winds widely gusting excess of 80mph in Kent (highest 122mph in Norfolk) * 15 million trees blown down * 4 million cubic metres of timber Drought- February 2012 * Worst drought in 30 years * Following dry winter and autumn * Hose pipe ban in place in most of Kent in
Shortly after Aurther Kane checked himself into a Los Angeles hospital with what he thought was a severe case of the flu. Kane's ailment was soon diagnosed as leukemia, and he died only a few hours later, on July 13, 2004, at age 55. The remaining Dolls played a hometown tribute to their fallen brothers at Little Steven's International Underground Garage Festival in New York City on August 14, 2004. (Allmusic.com 8)
Bush went on vacation for eight months before 9/11, just living it up (Moore, 2004). On the morning of September 11, 2011 Bush was in Florida reading to children at an Elementary School. Suicide bombers seized three airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, not to mention that two air crafts were unaccounted for with almost 156 people missing (Birmingham, 2001). A little before 9 a.m. the first strike on the World Trade Center occurred and CNN filmed the second strike (Birmingham, 2001). Bush was informed and in turn sat there for several minutes.
A tsunami “wave train” may come as surges five minutes to an hour apart. The cycle may be marked by the repeated retreat and advance of the ocean. Despite a lag of up to several hours between the earthquake and the impact of the tsunami, nearly all of the victims were taken completely by surprise because there were no tsunami warning systems in the Indian Ocean to detect tsunamis or to warn the general populace living around the ocean. The Indian Ocean tsunami travelled as far as 3,000 miles to Africa and still arrived with sufficient force to kill people and destroy property.
In January 2012 the Costa Concordia capsized off of the coast of Italy. Local and international headlines began to compare the Costa Concordia to the Titanic. On the Canadian television website CTV.ca the headline grabbing our attention, and trying to persuade future cruise passengers was “Titanic to Costa Concordia, has safety at sea improved?” (CTV.ca). This is an unfair headline. The Costa Concordia is the first ship to capsize due to human error since the Titanic.
Passage 2 News paper article TRAGIC DEATH OF RESPECTED NAVAL COMMANDER ERUPTION CAUSES TERROR AND DESTRUCTION IN BAY OF NAPLES Last week Naval commander Pliny the elder passed away because the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius located in Naples, southern Italy. He was known by being at the time the Naval commander of Roman navy at the bay of Naples, but he was as well a known writer, among his books the most known was an encyclopedia called Natural History. He was famous as well for his service to the state, he had military experiences and served in Germany, he had an administrative post in spain. He died among an estimate of 20,000 more people. The eruption was fatal, it left the city of Pompeii covered in pumice stone and volcanic ash, at a height of 29 meters.