“Only man knows natural disasters, so far as he survives them. Nature does not know disasters.” "Katastrophen kennt allein der Mensch, sofern er sie überlebt; die Natur kennt keine Katastrophen.“ from: Max Frisch: Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän. (1979) The German...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughJeJ4LJD0 "Noye's Fludde" is an opera by british composer Britten from 1958 based on the Noah myth. It premiered in England just 5 years after the great North Sea Flood of 1953. UK; 20. Century; Christian; Music, Opera; Noah
Strabo, a Greek geographer and historian whol lived from around 60 BC to 20 AD writes in his Geographica: "For the sea was raised by an earthquake and it submerged Helice, and also the temple of the Heliconian Poseidon, whom the Ionians worship even to this day,...
John Malalas (Greek: Ἰωάννης Μαλάλας, Iōánnēs Malálas) was a Byzantine writer who lived around 500 CE. In his Chronicles he records the following story from Constantinople: "In the 5th of the Indiction such a thing happened: a woman who lived near the Golden Gate was...
Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (1. Century BC) writes:"At this time occurred the third inundation of the city of Rhodes, which destroyed many of its p353 inhabitants. Of these floods, the first did little damage to the population since the city was newly founded...
The greek historian Polybius, who lived in the era of the Punic wars around 200 BC reports about the Roman military leader Scipio after his troops conquered and burnt down Carthage: "Turning round to me at once and grasping my hand Scipio said, 'A glorious...
... with wall to protect the city from the creatures of the deep in the movie Pacific Rim (2013) and now, or rather, in reality... USA, China; 21. Century; Christian; Movie; City: Hong Kong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUoGDJep8uo USA; 20. Century; Christian; Movie; City: Rome
The events on January 31. 1953 constitutes one of the moste severe floodings in the 20. Century in Europe. More than 1.800 lives were lost in the Netherlands, more than 300 in England and Schottland and 28 died in Belgium. As a direct result of the catastrophic events...
Portugal; 20. Century; Architecture
