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This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat , is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...
1845 – Theatre fire in Canton, China. 1,670 killed. 1856 – Second Royal Opera House fire in London, England. 1863 – Church of the Company Fire in Santiago, Chile; killed over 2,500. 1864 – Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, destroyed 198 Dutch Old Master paintings. 1870 – Château de Saint-Cloud destroyed by fire, October 13, 1870.
Inside of a slum house, from Jacob Riis photo collection of New York City (ca 1890). Part of Charles Booth's poverty map showing the Old Nichol, a slum in the East End of London. Published 1889 in Life and Labour of the People in London. The red areas are "middle class, well-to-do", light blue areas are "poor, 18s to 21s a week for a moderate ...
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Tokyo Fire Museum. The Tokyo Fire Museum is at Yotsuya 3–10, Shinjuku-ku. It has a large collection of historic firefighting apparatuses. The museum has firefighting history of the 17th and 18th centuries with large, scale-model dioramas showing scenes of destruction from past events. Models shows the uniforms and equipment that was used ...
Other stories published today by HuffPost and ICIJ include an overview detailing the reporting team’s key findings, a look at mass evictions in Ethiopia tied to a World Bank project and an examination of a Peruvian gold mine backed by the bank’s private-sector investment arm. ICIJ and its partners will publish more stories in the coming ...
An 1869 picture scroll of the 1772 Great Meiwa Fire. In 1703, there was an earthquake and fire in the city. A year later, there was flooding which led to disease outbreaks. In 1707, Mount Fuji erupted. The ash made it hard to see, so people used lanterns to move around. They protected themselves from embers by wearing wet cloths.
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