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unusual facts about damage


Damage: Live

Damage is a live recording of a 1993 tour by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp.


1802 Vrancea earthquake

Earthquake caused fear in Warsaw (Poland), and in Bulgaria, the cities of Ruse, Varna and Vidin suffered some damage and panic amongst the population.

1913 Asmara earthquake

This earthquake caused significant damage in Asmara (VI), Keren (IV), Massawa (V) and Adi Ugri (V).

1996–97 Australian region cyclone season

Peaking as a Category 4 cyclone, and making landfall as a Category 2, it caused significant damage in the Cairns region which it approached on two occasions.It was the largest cyclone to hit Northern Queensland in 1997.

2007 South Asian floods

In North Bengal, the floods have caused economic damage also estimated in the millions of U.S. dollars (at least Rs. 500 million); and in Siliguri, flash floods have wiped away at least 100 houses on a single night (28 July 2007).

2010 Super GT season

The 300km race at Fuji scheduled to be held on September 12 was cancelled due to the serious damage to Oyama, the town where the circuit is located, caused by the typhoon Malou.

A488 road

In Clun the A488 crosses the ancient Clun Bridge and this, together with other sections of the route such as at Pontesbury, mean that larger vehicles regularly get stuck and cause significant damage.

Amarynthos

The 2007 Greek forest fires caused significant damage in the region of Amarynthos.

Associated Humber Lines

Grounded off River Elbe in February 1947 and suffered rudder and propellor damage.

Birds of New Zealand

The most damage however was caused by habitat destruction and the other animals humans brought with them, particularly rats (the Polynesian rat or kiore introduced by Māori and the Brown Rat and Black Rat subsequently introduced by Europeans), but also mice, dogs, cats, stoats, weasels, pigs, goats, deer, hedgehogs, and Australian possums.

Cayce Pollard

It emerges that Nora had been catastrophically injured in a Claymore mine explosion that killed their parents years earlier and because of brain damage can only express herself through film.

Channel Dash

The Germans had suffered unexpectedly small damage and losses: Scharnhorst hit two mines, off Flushing and Ameland, but arrived safely at 10:00 on 13 February at Wilhelmshaven (the damage took three months to repair).

Gneisenau hit one mine off Terschelling, but suffered little damage; the magnetic mine exploded some metres off the ship, making a small hole on the starboard side and temporarily knocking one of her turbines out of action.

Connecticut Route 75

Its alignment alongside Bradley International Airport sustained heavy damage on October 3, 1979, when a F4 tornado destroyed or damaged many businesses and residences along the corridor, including the original Bradley Air Museum.

Cyclone Ului

Airlie Beach/Cannonvale/Cannonvalley sustained relatively minor damage due to them being sheltered from most of the damaging winds by the conway ranges which the Conway National Park is part of.

Cyril Joe Barton

As LK797 crossed the English coast at dawn, 90 miles to the North of its base, its fuel ran out from the battle damage leakage, and with only one engine still running on vapours and at too low a height to allow a remaining crew bail-out by parachute, Barton crash landed it at the village of Ryhope, steering away in the final descent from the houses and coal pit-head workings.

Damage to infrastructure in the 2010 Haiti earthquake

Damage to infrastructure in the 2010 Haiti earthquake was extensive and affected areas included Port-au-Prince, Petit-Goâve, Léogâne, Jacmel and other settlements in southwestern Haiti.

Dan Woodards

He was the only person in the ground when, in August 1944, a Luftwaffe V1 landed on the pitch, exploding and causing damage to the playing area.

December 1981 windstorm

In France, the storm caused widespread flooding in the south west, causing considerable damage in the river basins of the Garonne and Adour and flooding the city of Bordeaux.

Domburg

His Pier and Ocean painting was inspired by the same location where James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted the Domburg sea with its characteristic piers which do not cater for the happy crowd but are meant to break waves that may damage the dunes and thus the existence of the place.

Dorob National Park

It has been alleged that filming in the park in 2012 for the Mad Max sequel Fury Road caused significant damage to the park's habitat.

Dougherty v. Stepp

He also argued that every trespass involves some damage to the property, even if it is only the treading down and bruising of the herbage and shrubbery.

Douglas v Hello! Ltd

The Douglases and OK! Magazine claimed for breach of confidence, invasion of privacy, breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 and intention to damage and conspiracy to injure.

Energy security and renewable technology

Physicist Amory Lovins has said that following hundreds of blackouts in 2005, Cuba reorganized its electricity transmission system into networked microgrids and cut the occurrence of blackouts to zero within two years, limiting damage even after two hurricanes.

Floods in the United States: 2001–present

Flood damage was sustained in a swath from southern New York to the mouth, located at Havre de Grace in northern Maryland.

German submarine U-300

On 4 August the U-boat was attacked by a Canso flying boat of No. 162 Squadron RCAF with three depth charges, causing extensive damage.

Hemispatial neglect

Although hemispatial neglect has been identified following left hemisphere damage (resulting in the neglect of the right side of space), it is most common after damage to the right hemisphere.

Immaculate Conception Academy-Greenhills

The school moved seven times to accommodate its growing population, partly due to influx of Chinese immigrants escaping the Sino-Japanese War as well as the damage of school buildings as a result of the shelling of Manila by the Americans and the Japanese during World War II.

Japanese air attacks on the Mariana Islands

Small numbers of Japanese aircraft flying from Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Truk made occasional raids on the American forces on Saipan during the fighting there, but caused little damage.

LED lamp

Tests performed at the Complutense University of Madrid indicate that prolonged exposure to the shorter blue band spectrum LED lights may permanently damage the pigment epithelial cells of the retina.

Mannie Garcia

Garcia's photograph of President George W. Bush surveying the damage from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 from the high remove of Air Force One became a symbol of his administration's slow and detached reaction to the human suffering and wreckage below.

May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence

In the Oklahoma City area, the General Motors Oklahoma City Assembly sustained major damage as well as a manufacturing plant near Interstate 240 where F4 damage was observed.

May 2009 Southern Midwest derecho

There were numerous reports of tree and roof damage throughout Springfield, prompting some business to close, and caused Drury University to cancel some morning classes.

May 26–31, 2013 tornado outbreak

The tornado continued causing damage in residential areas before crossing the Missouri River into St. Louis County and Earth City, Bridgeton, and the northern side of Maryland Heights as it moved along Interstate 70 near its intersection with Interstate 270.

Musou

--*Musou Gauge, a gauge used in the Dynasty Warriors video games. Introduced in Dynasty Warriors 2, while the player character deals and receives damage, the gauge fills up. When the gauge is full, the player can press a button and perform a special attack specific to that player character. -->

Overactive disorder associated with mental retardation and stereotyped movements

The extent to which the behavioural pattern is a function of low IQ or of organic brain damage is not known, neither is it clear whether the disorders in children with mild intellectual disability who show the hyperkinetic syndrome would be better classified here or under F90.- (Hyperkinetic disorders); at present they are included in F90-.

Pena National Palace

Nonetheless, the chapel (and its magnificent works of marble and alabaster attributed to Nicolau Chanterene) escaped without significant damage.

Piyale Pasha

In September 1558 they assaulted the coasts of Spain before capturing Minorca and inflicting particular damage on the island's ports.

Rail transport in Jamaica

1988 - Hurricane Gilbert causes extensive damage to railway infrastructure.

Sir Degrevant

Degrevant hurries back from Granada, repairs the fences and the other damage done, then addresses a letter to the earl seeking legal redress.

Sodium hypochlorite

According to work published by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in November 2013, a very dilute (0.005%) solution of sodium hypochlorite in water was successful in treating skin damage with an inflammatory component caused by radiation therapy, excess sun exposure or ageing in laboratory mice.

Superior cervical ganglion

Damage to the T1-T3 regions of the spinal cord is responsible for drooping of the eyelids (ptosis), constriction of the pupil (miosis), and sinking of the eyeball (Enophthalmos).

TACA Airlines

The plane landed without further damage on a grass levee at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility.

Tang Xiyang

Although the threat to the Snub-nosed monkeys of Deqin County has passed, the students fear that unrestrained clear-cutting in nearby areas will continue to cause severe environmental damage.

Teck Resources

After a long running court case filed by Washington state’s Native American Colville Confederated Tribes over environmental damage from smelter effluents, Teck Resources confessed to polluting the upper reaches of the Columbia River for nearly a century.

Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery

The meeting was held in response to statements by Commander Bedford Pim, Royal Navy, that a modern ironclad warship could do untold damage to the towns of Tyneside due to the poor state of their defences.

VMA-231

During this time Lieutenant Glen Loeffel was awarded the Navy Cross of heroism for his lone attack on the Japanese cruiser Furutaka on October 4, causing substantial damage and rendering it inoperable and easy prey for sinking which eventually occurred on October 11.

Walter R. Tucker III

He also worked with the Army Corps of Engineers to secure federal funding to repair the long neglected Compton Creek, thus eliminating the possibility of costly flood damage to the homes and property on either side of the waterway.

X-Corps

In the name of mutant superiority, the group incurs some massive damage to the city including the destruction of the Eiffel Tower.

Xanthis

Following the mass exodus of Castellorizians from the effects and damage of the war to Australia, many people currently have links to the name all over the country (an amazing feat since it comes from such a small island with less than 300 in population).

Yasi

2011's Cyclone Yasi - Caused significant damage to Queensland, Australia in 2011


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