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  • In La Soufrière, a film whose German title Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe translates as "waiting for an inevitable catastrophe", he climbs a volcano as it is about to erupt.

    Werner Herzog, the adventurous spirit 2011

  • The Times Picayune reports shocking claims of politics being played during a (man-made) Katastrophe:

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • If there were to be, to all intents and purposes, no United States government to redeem them…eine Katastrophe.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • If there were to be, to all intents and purposes, no United States government to redeem them…eine Katastrophe.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • Taxpayers generously underwrite the polluters, and blame the polluted for being too expensive to save in the aftermath of Katastrophe.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2006

  • After the Katastrophe, "Citizens" responded effectively and admirably, in my view.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2006

  • I'm silly enough to think these are newsworthy 1. No one cares that much of the Katastrophe in New Orleans occurred due to poorly-designed floodwalls by the Army Corps of Engineers.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2006

  • I love grand statements about the Crescent City more than anyone, and I doubted that anybody who'd witnessed the devastation first-hand could wildly exaggerate the Katastrophe in New Orleans... but then, I didn't factor in Rivera.

    Archive 2005-11-01 2005

  • I love grand statements about the Crescent City more than anyone, and I doubted that anybody who'd witnessed the devastation first-hand could wildly exaggerate the Katastrophe in New Orleans... but then, I didn't factor in Rivera.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2005

  • Jahrzehnten zu den Zeitereignissen vor der Katastrophe

    Bertha von Suttner - Biography 1905

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