Showing posts with label Event. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Event. Show all posts

Friday, November 29, 2013

"Pushing Buttons for Visayas" - A Fund Raising Event for Typhoon Yolanda ...

Typhoon Haiyan
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Image by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines (13:00 UTC 11/7/2013).


This is a composite image incorporating data captured by the geostationary satellites of the Japan Meteorological Agency (MTSat 2) and EUMETSAT (Meteosat-7), overlaying NASA’s ‘Black Marble’ imagery.


To find out more about these organizations, visit:


www.jma.go.jp
www.eumetsat.int
www.nasa.gov


This image is free to use, provided the following attribution statement is given: "Copyright 2013 JMA/EUMETSAT"


For more imagery and further detail on the storm, check out our Haiyan web page: www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Images/ImageLibrary/DAT_208…


Copyright: 2013 EUMETSAT (www.eumetsat.int/website/home/index.html)


"Pushing Buttons for Visayas" – A Fund Raising Event for Typhoon Yolanda

Guam – The Guam Arts Society of Photographer (GASP) is pleased to announce Pushing Buttons for Visayas, a fundraising event for the survivors of super‐typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda which hit the Visayan region of the Philippines last Nov 8, 2013. Pushing …
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Philippine envoy thanks Taiwan for typhoon relief aid

28 (CNA) The Philippines" representative to Taiwan expressed his gratitude to Taiwan on Thursday for its swift relief efforts in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, which ripped through his country Nov. 8, leaving a trail of death and destruction. "We have …
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Typhoon Haiyan death toll jumps to 5235 in Philippines

(CNN) — The death toll from this month"s Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has spiked to 5,235, a national agency reported early Saturday. That figure — posted at 6 a.m. (5 p.m. ET Friday) on the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management …
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"Pushing Buttons for Visayas" - A Fund Raising Event for Typhoon Yolanda ...

Saturday, November 2, 2013

An Event for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860

An Celebration for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860


An Occasion for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860


Leila Fawaz’s pioneering research tells the story of the 1860 civil wars that commenced in Mount Lebanon and spilled over into Damascus. This period witnessed the most severe outbreak of sectarian violence in the heritage of Ottoman Syria and Lebanon. The author’s close analytical narrative of the extraordinary events of that 12 months is established towards the broader themes of nineteenth-century social, political, and economic modify.

Fawaz shows how social conflict, which includes “ethnic” civil wars, are not able to be exp



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An Event for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860