Sorry, this is a belated forwarding. Can anyone help?
Roger
At 03:02 PM 6/29/99 +0100, you wrote:
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>I have received the following request for assistance:
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>The UN's International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction is coming
>to an end this year. For its annual 'Disaster Day' in October, we are
>conducting a '1000 talks in 1000 schools' to raise awareness of
>disasters and the means of preventing them. Part of the exercise is
>to provide lively material for the speakers and to leave it with
>teachers for later use. In order to grab the attention of children, I
>would be grateful if you could send me any of the following:
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>- personal observations of what happened when you or a friend or
>colleague were caught in (or in the aftermath of) an earthquake,
>tsunami, volcano, flood or hurricane.
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>- anecdotes from past disastrous events.
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>- amazing facts about disasters
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>- sources of the above (books, websites, journals)
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>For example, Caruso is reported to have thrown open his window and
>sang at the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, stimulated by
>the emotion of the event. Does anyone know which song it was?
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>The information collected will become available to all through the UK
>IDNDR website: www.oneworld.org\idndr
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>Please contribute if possible and/or pass this request on to your
>local contacts to see if they can add more.
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>If you have any ideas or suggestions, please let me know and I will
>pass them back along the chain.
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>Thanks
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>Russ
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