The 1906 Swansea earthquake hit near the town of Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales on 27 June. It was one of the most damaging to hit Britain during the twentieth...
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earthquake (Taiwan) 1906 San Francisco earthquake (California, US) (great) 1906 Swansea earthquake (United Kingdom) 1906 Valparaíso earthquake (Chile) (great...
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1884 1892 1896 1901 1903 1906 1916 1924 1926 1931 1931 1940 1940 1944 1957 1984 2008 The following is a list of notable earthquakes that have affected the...
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been seismic activity at the time which had culminated in the 1906 Swansea earthquake; lights had been seen at Toppenish ridge in the US, in the Cascade...
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Vernon Watkins (category Writers from Swansea)
brought up mainly in Swansea. His birth coincided with slight earth tremors; another baby born that night was christened John Earthquake Jones. His parents...
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King's daughter Maud is crowned as queen consort of Norway. 27 June – Swansea earthquake causes considerable damage. 30 June – Salisbury rail crash: a London...
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Swansea, UK: Classical Press of Wales. Hodkinson, Stephen; Gallou, Chrysanthi, eds. (2021). Luxury and wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese. Swansea:...
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of the major insurance companies outside Lloyd's. On 18 April 1906, a major earthquake and resulting fires destroyed over 80 per cent of the city of San...
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is elected unopposed. 27 June - One of the strongest earthquakes recorded in the UK strikes Swansea with a strength of 5.2 on the Richter Scale, damaging...
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The list of shipwrecks in 1906 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1906. Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Navigation...
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"Floating Down the Tide" 1415. "Banks of Inverary" 1416. "The Lass of Swansea Town", "Swansea Barracks" 1417. "Weddingmore", "Young Ellender" 1418. "My Lagan...
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500 Wales Cardiff City Stadium 26,828 Cardiff City Liberty Stadium 20,520 Swansea City Racecourse Ground 15,500 Wrexham Park Avenue 5,500 Aberystwyth...
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Weapon" by Deep Purple "Drunk in San Francisco" by San Quinn & Tuf Luv "Earthquake Weather" by All Bets Off "East Bay Night" by Rancid "El Cerrito" by Cracker...
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Vol II, 1906: "Regular Trans-Pacific Service" p.28, accessed 1 January 2010 Annual Reports of the War Department, Vol I, 1906: "EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA"...
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several clubs, most prominently Watford Tom Carroll (1992–), played for Swansea City Jack Collison (1988–), former West Ham United and Wales footballer...
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Relations: a Narrative and Analytic History, From the Fourth Century to 146 BC. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2017. Lewis, D. M., John Boardman, and Simon...
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This sailing barge departed Falmouth, Cornwall, England with a cargo of Swansea coal bound for Saint-Brieuc, France. Two days later she was discovered...
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of early engines are the tramway locomotive The Pioneer of 1877 for the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, and Belmont (an 0-4-2 saddle tank), which ran on the...
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November 1919 until July 1945. Concurrently – Walter Runciman, MP for Swansea West 1924–1929 and Hilda Runciman, MP for St Ives 1928–1929. She relinquished...
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becomes a city". BBC Wales. Retrieved 24 February 2019. "The day an earthquake hit Swansea". BBC News. 27 June 2006. Retrieved 18 March 2019. "Freedom of Information"...
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39266 (Calshot Spit (lighthouse)) Canning 1954 United Kingdom Tug Swansea Museum, Swansea, United Kingdom HMS Caroline 1914 United Kingdom Cruiser Belfast...
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Kong 1894. Japanese Taiwan, Empire of Japan 1896 (until 1923 Great Kantō earthquake).[failed verification] Bombay Presidency, India, 1896–1898. Calcutta,...
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Leon Knight (category Swansea City A.F.C. players)
Brighton, scoring 30 goals in 106 league matches. He was transferred to Swansea City in 2006 and had a loan spell with Barnsley before joining Milton Keynes...
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Mayor Boychenko.[citation needed] Following the June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake, the United Nations warned of a possible outbreak in the affected areas...
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electric line from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, begun in 1905. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake crippled the project, and the portion between Tunitas Glen (at...
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first wife of Henry Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea and Mother of Ernest Ambrose Vivian, p Come here 2nd Baron Swansea Lady Katherine Manners (1848), wife of...
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(2006), Spartan Education: Youth and Society in the Classical Period, Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, ISBN 978-1-905125-07-4 Fantham, Elaine; Foley...
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irregularities involving Swindon. The curse was beaten in 2021, when Brentford beat Swansea City to win promotion to the Premier League. A day later, Lincoln City...
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her to deliver the Speech from the Throne. March 4 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in the Vrancea Mountains of Romania kills over 1,500 people. March 8 –...
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it. The following autumn, Wheatstone performed a similar experiment in Swansea Bay. A good insulator to cover the wire and prevent the electric current...
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