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In the years before the 1883 eruption, seismic activity around the Krakatoa volcano was intense, with earthquakes felt as far away as North Australia, one of which, in 1880, damaged a lighthouse. [4] Strombolian activity began on 20 May 1883, and steam venting began to occur regularly from Perboewatan , the northernmost of the island's three cones.
A large part of the 1947 children's novel The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois takes place on Krakatoa, just before and then during the 1883 eruption. In Pene du Bois's tale, 25 families have established a fanciful colony drawing vast wealth from fictional diamond mines on the island until the eruption scatters the inhabitants and ...
[14] [16] [17] The northern structure, at 11 Wall Street on the northern end of the block, has a frontage directly on Wall Street; it was designed by Trowbridge & Livingston and completed in 1922. [18] [19] Due to the site's sloping topography, the first floor is at ground level at the corner of Wall and New Streets, but is one level above ...
The 2009 episode "Krakatoa" of History's geology-based documentary series How the Earth Was Made also chronicles the geologic history of Krakatoa. [14] In a 1991 episode of the TV show Seinfeld, Jerry (in 1985) is tricked by Kramer into donating money to the Krakatoa relief fund, even though it erupted 102 years earlier.
Before-and-after images offer a glimpse of how the blazes have affected the city. Officials say the Palisades Fire, the largest in the area, has burned more than 5,000 structures, including many ...
Jacob Little (March 17, 1794 – March 28, 1865) was an early 19th-century Wall Street investor and the first and one of the greatest speculators in the history of the stock market, known at the time as the "Great Bear of Wall Street". [3]
Eerie images, contrasted with pictures taken before the fires on Google Street View, show the entrance to the Altadena Town and Country Club burned to the ground from the Eaton fire, with the ...
These before-and-after images show the stark changes the fires have brought to the landscape. They demonstrate the terrible toll exacted on the lives of people caught in the crisis.