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Bestsellers
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Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- De: Sheri Fink
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....
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Five Days in Hell/Years in Purgatory
- De Cynthia en 09-15-13
De: Sheri Fink
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The Johnstown Flood
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity....
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- De Susan K Donley en 06-17-05
De: David McCullough
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A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- De: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrado por: Emily Beresford
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption....
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Eye opening and thought provoking
- De zachery en 10-09-15
De: Rebecca Solnit
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- De: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness....
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Riveting True Story You Didn't Hear On The News
- De Kathy in CA en 07-05-18
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The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- De: Amanda Ripley
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families....
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fascinating
- De Sara en 10-20-08
De: Amanda Ripley
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
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Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- De: Sheri Fink
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....
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Five Days in Hell/Years in Purgatory
- De Cynthia en 09-15-13
De: Sheri Fink
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The Johnstown Flood
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity....
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- De Susan K Donley en 06-17-05
De: David McCullough
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A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- De: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrado por: Emily Beresford
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption....
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Eye opening and thought provoking
- De zachery en 10-09-15
De: Rebecca Solnit
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- De: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness....
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Riveting True Story You Didn't Hear On The News
- De Kathy in CA en 07-05-18
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The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- De: Amanda Ripley
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families....
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fascinating
- De Sara en 10-20-08
De: Amanda Ripley
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
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Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- De: Ted Koppel
- Narrado por: Ted Koppel
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared....
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Too much poetry, not enough prose
- De Norman B. Bernstein en 11-27-15
De: Ted Koppel
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A Field Guide to the Apocalypse
- A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times
- De: Athena Aktipis
- Narrado por: Athena Aktipis
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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Is this finally it? The end times? Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution—not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and anxiety—it’s starting to feel like the party we call civilization is just about over....
De: Athena Aktipis
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Critical Hours
- Search and Rescue in the White Mountains
- De: Sandy Stott
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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Sandy Stott, the "Accidents" editor at the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, delivers both a history and a celebration of the search and rescue workers who save countless lives in the White Mountains....
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History of Search and Rescue Operations on White Mt.
- De Ronda en 03-07-19
De: Sandy Stott
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Trillion Dollar Triage
- How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
- De: Nick Timiraos
- Narrado por: Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs....
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Hard to listen. Mostly an anti Trump book.
- De NL en 04-17-22
De: Nick Timiraos
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Aid State
- Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
- De: Jake Johnston
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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In Aid State, Jake Johnston, researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, reveals how US and European capitalist goals re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it....
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A must read for anyone interested in Haiti
- De Matthew Smith en 04-02-24
De: Jake Johnston
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Paradise
- One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
- De: Lizzie Johnson
- Narrado por: Lizzie Johnson
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds....
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Horrible,Horrible,Illiterate narration.
- De howard bascom en 09-02-21
De: Lizzie Johnson
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The Boys in the Cave
- Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand
- De: Matt Gutman
- Narrado por: Matt Gutman
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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From ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the story that gripped the world: the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three weeks....
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Wanted much more about what happened inside
- De Scott T. Hards en 12-22-18
De: Matt Gutman
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Flight 232
- A Story of Disaster and Survival
- De: Laurence Gonzales
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet....
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Therapeutic
- De Quiltedwings en 05-07-15
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Dispatches from the Edge
- De: Anderson Cooper
- Narrado por: Anderson Cooper
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper....
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Dispatches from the Inner Self
- De W. Rodger Gantt en 11-03-06
De: Anderson Cooper
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The Plague Year
- America in the Time of COVID
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19 - its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it....
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Balanced Account of a Horrible Year
- De C. Emerson Thompson en 07-14-21
De: Lawrence Wright
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Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024
- A Pocket-Sized Survival Bible for Surviving Nuclear Fallout, Nuclear Attack and EMPs
- De: Kyle Donovan
- Narrado por: Mike Steele
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
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2023 revealed the stark reality: the threat of nuclear war is not just possible, it's imminent. "Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024" is your essential guide to not just survive but thrive in the face of this looming danger.
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Ignorance is NOT bliss. You need to listen to this
- De B Bishop en 04-06-24
De: Kyle Donovan
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The Emergency
- A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
- De: Thomas Fisher
- Narrado por: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Fisher
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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As an emergency room doctor working on the rapid evaluation unit, Dr. Thomas Fisher has about three minutes to spend with the patients who come into the South Side of Chicago ward where he works before directing them to the next stage of their care....
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Meh
- De chel_c42 en 03-29-22
De: Thomas Fisher
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3000 Degrees
- The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
- De: Sean Flynn
- Narrado por: Richard Rohan
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department...
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a book about a very heroic breed
- De Andy en 06-03-03
De: Sean Flynn
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Black Flags and Windmills
- Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective
- De: Scott Crow
- Narrado por: Chris Bergman
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, an organization calling itself the Common Ground Collective formed to become the largest anarchist inspired organization in modern US history.
De: Scott Crow
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Inflamed
- Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm
- De: Anne E. Belden, Paul Gullixson, Lauren A. Spates - contributor
- Narrado por: Janet Metzger
- Duración: 17 h y 11 m
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Just after midnight on October 9, 2017, as one of the nation's deadliest firestorms swept over California's Wine Country, hundreds of elderly residents from two posh senior living facilities were caught in its path....
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Gripping
- De Christina Webster en 04-24-24
De: Anne E. Belden, y otros
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We Fed an Island
- The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
- De: José Andrés
- Narrado por: José Andrés, Luis A. Miranda Jr.
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed, and for most people there was no clean water, no food, no power, no gas, and no way to communicate with the outside world....
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Great story, difficult listen
- De Luis Baars en 09-20-18
De: José Andrés
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The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- De: Henry Fountain
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history....
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Fascinating to hear the full story
- De Debby A Davis en 08-18-17
De: Henry Fountain
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So Others May Live
- Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
- De: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Tom Ridge
- Narrado por: Jim Cooper, Martha Laguardia-Kotite
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers....
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Good content, poor delivery in parts
- De Damien en 01-27-19
De: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, y otros
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Old Farts Survival Guide
- De: Ron Foster
- Narrado por: T. David Rutherford
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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Survival tips written for (and by) old farts... I decided to write down a bunch of timely wood lore tricks and preparedness advisement so they can be shared and remembered at least once more....
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Keep your wits about you.
- De Matt Malicoat en 03-16-24
De: Ron Foster
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Ten Hours Until Dawn
- The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
- De: Michael J. Tougias
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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He gathered his crew of four, readied his 49-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard that was to become known as the "Storm of the Century"....
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A riveting story
- De Christopher en 11-30-07
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Fire on the Horizon
- The Untold Story of the Explosion Aboard the Deepwater Horizon
- De: Tom Shroder, John Konrad
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm....
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An incredibly well-told story
- De Shep en 04-06-11
De: Tom Shroder, y otros
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The Vortex
- A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
- De: Scott Carney, Jason Miklian
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal....
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One of the Best books this year!
- De Nazir en 05-26-22
De: Scott Carney, y otros
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- De: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists, y otros
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors....
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Internal workings of the NRC
- De Eduards J. Vucins en 05-11-14
De: Susan Stranahan, y otros
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Dark Tide
- The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
- De: Stephen Puleo
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash....
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INTERESTING STORY - ABOUT 2x TOO LONG
- De The Louligan en 09-07-14
De: Stephen Puleo