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unusual facts about rubble



2006 Lebanon War photographs controversies

A photo of a burning Qur'an amid a pile of rubble, also taken by Hajj, seemed suspicious to Los Angeles Times media critic Tim Rutten, since the building it was in had been destroyed in an Israeli airstrike hours beforehand, and everything else in the photo was already ash.

Beryozovsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai

Natural resources include limestone, granite, gravel, sand, and rubble, all of which were extensively used during the construction of Krasnoyarsk Dam.

Bombsite

The rubble of Viennese bombsites and the remnants of the city's battered infrastructure serve as a backdrop to much of the action in the movie The Third Man, written by Graham Greene, an author who would return to this bombsite motif again.

Chat Moss

Chat Moss threatened the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, until George Stephenson succeeded in constructing a railway line through it in 1829; his solution was to "float" the line on a bed of bound heather and branches topped with tar and covered with rubble stone.

Chrisso, Phocis

The rubble from the ancient wall of Krissa lies in the modern Stefani hill.

Dave Karnes

David W. Karnes (born ca. 1958) is a retired U.S. Marine, who with Jason Thomas located and helped rescue two police officers trapped in the rubble from the September 11, 2001 attacks at the World Trade Center.

Energy accidents

December 2, 1999: A gas explosion in a 3 story apartment block in the Austrian town of Wilhelmsburg, 15 people were buried in the rubble, of which 9 people died before emergency personnel reached the scene, with another 1 person dying some time afterwards due to complications arising from her spot amputated legs.

Flak tower

The G-Tower, known as Mont Klamott (Rubble Mountain) in Berlin, was the inspiration for songs by singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann and the rock band Silly.

Fliegerfaust

However, a 1945 photograph of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin clearly shows at least 3 expended Fliegerfaust B's lying in the rubble.

House burning of the Cucuteni–Trypillian culture

This rubble was mostly ceramic material that had been created as the raw clay used in the daub of the walls became vitrified from the intense heat that would have turned it a bright orange color during the conflagration that destroyed the buildings, much the same way that raw clay objects are turned into ceramic products during the firing process in a kiln.

Huddersfield Narrow Canal

No other such cases are known on navigable waterways worldwide, although other pylons have been constructed across former waterways that have been filled in with rubble and soil, such as the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal & Wey and Arun Canal at Rowner Lock.

Hupp House

It was built about 1755, and is a 2 1/2-story, rubble limestone Colonial-era dwelling.

Ie Shima Airfield

The coral foundation of the island and the rubble of the town of Ie facilitated the work.

Inland Waterways Protection Society

A confectionery factory had been built over the terminal basin, the section from Killamarsh to Spinkhill bridge was dry, and High Moor lock house had been demolished and the rubble pushed into the lock chamber.

July 2006 in the Middle East

Four UN peace keepers die after, being, according to the United Nations, shelled 14 times by Israeli artillery, and a rescue team was also shelled as it tried to clear the rubble.

Katharina Szelinski-Singer

The sculpture was intended to honour the German Trümmerfrauen (German for: rubble women), those women who after the end of the Second world war played a major role in rebuilding the city by clearing up the rubble of the damaged buildings.

Kurt Mendelssohn

His principal thesis was that the pyramid at Meidum had collapsed during construction, a conclusion he arrived at utilizing his knowledge of physics and which was sparked in 1966 by images of the Aberfan disaster, where Mendelssohn saw similarities to the rubble mound surrounding the Meidum pyramid, a primary destination for his travel to Egypt the year before.

Labrisomus guppyi

Labrisomus guppyi, the Mimic blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea from south Florida to Fernando de Noronha where it inhabits such areas as reefs, near shore areas with rock or rubble covered in algae and beds of seagrass.

Leon Fortunato

He had been buried and crushed in the rubble of the GC headquarters complex and his mother was calling him home, when he heard a voice - Carpathia's - calling out: "LEONARDO, COME FORTH!" in imitation of a command that Jesus Christ gave to Lazarus.

Low Head Lighthouse

Designed by Colonial Architect John Lee Archer, who was responsible for the design of many other Tasmanian lights, it was constructed of local rubble with a coat of stucco to make the structure durable.

Michel Clérié

He was trapped in rubble at the senate following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, but was found alive after six hours and transport to the Dominican Republic for surgery.

Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements

As the Dwyka glaciers moved, grinding their way southwards, the rocks and rubble that became embedded in their belly smoothed the underlying Andesite rock pavements and scoured out scratch marks, known as striations.

Palace of Yashbak

Palace of Yashbak (also known as the Palace of Amir Qawsoun), in Medieval Cairo, Egypt is the ruin backing on to the rear of the garden of the tomb of Hasan Sadaq, the main entrance was found by climbing over a pile of Rubble off Manah Al-Waqf Street, which is parallel to Suyufiyya Street, which is behind the Madrasa of Sultan Hassan.

Rubble pile

A close analogy to a rubble pile is a shot and wax slug projectile commonly fired from a shotgun as opposed to a monolithic pure lead slug, with the former having a lower density as it is loosely held together by wax and is composed of numerous individual lead bird shot spheres.

Serge Marcil

On January 23, his wife confirmed that Marcil's body had been found in the rubble of the Hôtel Montana.

Siegesallee

However, the statues were seen by the Allied powers as a symbol of Imperial Germany, and in 1947 the British Occupation Forces dismantled the Siegesallee’s remains, these apparently being bound for the Teufelsberg (Devil’s Mountain), the largest of the eight huge rubble mountains around Berlin’s perimeter.

St Peter's Church, Saltfleetby

The older part of the tower is constructed in limestone ashlar, with greenstone rubble used in the 20th-century re-building; it also contains some red brick.

Stuart Brisley

Recent works also include Brisley’s disarmingly sober watercolour landscapes from a series entitled Jerusalem, a fitting reference to William Blake’s lauded poem and substitute national anthem in which trees and foliage seem to sprout and grow from amidst the rubble.

Warren Kinsella

Their songs "Barney Rubble Is My Double" and "Invasion of the Tribbles" have been performed by The Evaporators and Palma Violets respectively, and Damian Abraham of Fucked Up has been quoted as saying that he wants the Nasties' "Secret of Immortality" played at his funeral.

Zodarion italicum

It was first discovered in Britain in 1984, where it is widespread in the Grays area of Essex and occurs among rubble on waste ground and in chalk quarries, often with the ant Lasius niger.


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