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More than half of the disasters chronicled are natural. These floods, storms, droughts, blizzard, famines, typhoons and epidemics are fierce reminders that humankind is no match for the devastating force and fury Mother Nature can unleash. From the Great Influenza Epidemic of WWI that took nearly 40 million lives to the Irish Potato Famine of 1846, the Calcutta Cyclone, the Plague of Justinian, the Peru Landslide, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the 1888 New York City Blizzard and the Dust Bowl. There are numerous accounts of catastrophes that could not be averted and whose destruction was beyond imagining, including: The great China earthquake of 1556, which claimed 830,000 lives; The London Killer Fog of 1952 which left 12,000 dead and set the stage for the 1963 Clean Air Act in the USA; Hurricane Andrew, which swept through South Florida in 1992, packing winds of 190 miles per hour and causing huge loss of life and USD30 billion worth of damage

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Stephen J. Spignesi is the author of over 20 books on entertainment, popular culture and historical biography, including The Robin Williams Scrapbook (available from Turnaround), The Beatles Book of Lists, and The ER Companion. He lives in New Haven, Coneecticut.

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