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"cataclysm" Definitions
  1. a sudden disaster or a violent event that causes change, for example a flood or a war

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That dates the cataclysm which caused the burial to 822.
That was perceived at the time to be a cataclysm.
There's growing evidence that global warming is accelerating toward cataclysm.
The conflict has also come to resemble a sectarian cataclysm.
I started to wane on it during the Cataclysm expansion.
As with climate change, the uncertainty interval encompasses utter cataclysm.
That would, quite literally, trigger a cataclysm within the party.
The resulting cataclysm fused the two worlds together, forming our Earth.
Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria will scale for levels 80-90.
But Bonjean made no bones about the cataclysm consuming the party.
WoW's popularity began to wane with Cataclysm (2010) , its third expansion.
Such an exchange would lead to a cataclysm for both sides.
"Travelers" is a Canadian show about saving humanity after a cataclysm.
Researchers have long known the general outlines of Permian-Triassic cataclysm.
He is almost gleefully and recklessly courting a major military cataclysm.
Seager was the cataclysm that allowed Darrow to make every correction.
But we are a long way from the cataclysm of 1918.
The Second World War is the greatest cataclysm in human history.
That one is called the Late Heavy Bombardment, or the lunar cataclysm.
As The Economist went to press, the cataclysm had yet to arrive.
In this respect, perhaps Trump was precisely the cataclysm the GOP needed.
Before Cataclysm, World of Warcraft felt a bit like home to me.
He wanted Helter Skelter, a new world order, to culminate in cataclysm.
So what's the central organizing principle to prevent cataclysm for this era?
Fortunately, people hadn't yet arrived on New Zealand to witness the Taupo cataclysm.
Portland will never be the same, always permanently changed by this seismic cataclysm.
I kept thinking of the paintings as the aftermath of an unspecified cataclysm.
Bitter experience of repetitive cataclysm has taught Europe to be wary of risk.
The failure of one division in one bank can trigger a global cataclysm.
Every new provocation will make it harder to avoid a new regional cataclysm.
Despite the cataclysm of conquest, that world, and its art, never entirely vanished.
Condemnations for Myanmar, fascination for Richard Liu and a looming cataclysm in Syria.
The United States cannot help avert global cataclysm without breaking its automobile addiction.
Short of that sort of cataclysm, however, the president's party usually gets walloped.
"Jesus invites cataclysm as a result of struggle," Georgas preached earlier this year.
I can only hope that it will be exercised before the cataclysm occurs.
We'd see the wave but could only guess at the cataclysm that caused it.
Losing the Diaz rematch would have been a cataclysm, and the end looked assured.
Croft sincerely aspires to shield the world from cataclysm, often at great personal sacrifice.
New Zealand, he discovered, is a favored refuge in the event of a cataclysm.
A war between the United States and China over Taiwan would be a cataclysm.
Haig phoned him, painting a picture of cataclysm if Ruckelshaus did not fire Cox.
It takes place in the 23rd century after a global cataclysm called the Fall.
The big picture: The cataclysm that seemed so imminent in those early days hasn't arrived.
So around the world, we are seeing a cataclysm unlike anything I've ever seen before.
The resulting cataclysm created a new monster black hole, and literally warped space and time.
Michael: Mr. Trump was TV's first great cataclysm of the year; #MeToo was the second.
But for the ghostly Alyosha and his neglectful, raging parents, the cataclysm has already arrived.
People like this are already suffering from Maduro's indifference, and a cataclysm may lie ahead.
From beginning to end, it feels like the music of cataclysm: anguished, outraged, hellishly surreal.
Rather, Mr. Cahn wanted to warn that a cataclysm could happen, not that it would.
My book explores the cataclysm that destroyed the city and, in fact, shattered the entire civilization.
George W. Bush bucked the midterm trend due in large part to the cataclysm of Sept.
Just one person stood between the astronauts and cataclysm: Clinton's deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin.
The Interminables, Paige Orwin In 2020, the world was transformed when a magical cataclysm changed everything.
They're working through the wreckage of a cataclysm and trying to build something out of it.
The second is that the world might any day experience a cataclysm that alters civilization entirely.
Everything was different Three years earlier, in 2010, the World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm came out.
The common denominator in all these films is that we safely watch the cataclysm from afar.
In fact, if there's one key lesson that's emerged so far from this economic cataclysm  —  correction?
However, having her face a cataclysm all on her own puts her in a class by herself.
They managed to run from a dragon-sized cataclysm and then the entire army of the dead?
As cataclysm purges society of any undesirable elements, it reveals inviolable truth, affirming society's deeply held values.
The resentment that led to a new cataclysm two decades later was really forged by the Armistice.
This cataclysm, known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, hit Earth between 3.9 and 3.8 billion years ago.
That cataclysm would arrive in the 1960's riots that set America's unofficially segregated Northern cities aflame.
When we meet in her Brooklyn studio, our backdrop is another cataclysm of violence in our homeland.
The titular cataclysm reshaped huge areas of the world that had remained mostly unchanged for six years.
In sum, the 2010s have seen stagnation, rather than a repeat of the cataclysm of the 1980s.
Some on the right argue the roots of the current cataclysm extend even further into the past.
"We're heading toward a humanitarian cataclysm" in Syria if nothing is done, Le Drian told French lawmakers.
Watchmen is a complete and circular story, set in a grim world where inevitable cataclysm is eternally approaching.
"Let's not proclaim cataclysm on the basis of a tweet or two, or four or six," he said.
That history makes clear that short of a major cultural cataclysm, Democrats are going to pick up seats.
There is only the rage, bottled up and festering, waiting for release in a cataclysm still to come.
"Yeah, Vegas is a great place to relax," his Uber driver tells him moments before the cataclysm hits.
Climate change is a cataclysm for humans everywhere, but it will be felt more keenly by certain humans.
Wouk is getting at something deeper: a tendency of supposedly sophisticated people to dismiss the possibility of cataclysm.
The difference is that a war here would be not just a regional disaster but a nuclear cataclysm.
Trump has always expressed more interest in "extricating" the U.S. from Afghanistan than in forestalling a cataclysm there.
Barring some outright cataclysm, there is no evidence that Republican lawmakers would even consider voting to impeach Trump.
Down one road lay cataclysm, whereas down another road Trump would pleasantly surprise us with his job performance.
They had some physiological and life history attributes which were not conducive to survival in the K-Pg cataclysm.
For years, nuclear war seemed like last century's apocalypse — we had moved on to a new cataclysm, climate change.
Yet for all these visions of the apocalypse, each cataclysm is an opportunity for the rebirth of the self.
It shows us intimate grief—midlife divorce, a child's death, mental illness—lit by the flare of worldwide cataclysm.
The Trump presidency was not the cataclysm that many had feared, but the possibility of damage hovers over us.
But there is enough tension hinting at the cataclysm to come to prohibit this from tipping into saccharine territory.
But a clear sense of cataclysm, of everything that was once taken for granted being torn to shreds, pervades throughout.
Was that cataclysm somehow necessary for the chain of events that led to life, to you and me, to pizza?
And, in the aftermath of a cataclysm like an asteroid impact, they'd likely be the last living things on Earth.
Memorial Day in America originally recognized the sacrifice of the Union's Civil War dead; that cataclysm took some 655,000 lives.
The concept, all too similar to the religious fundamentalist's obsession with the end times, is that cataclysm will bring redemption.
Truly endarkic people crave solitude and, perhaps less consciously, cataclysm, if only for the opportunity to prove their self-reliance.
All because — despite what keepers of the peace usually declare in the wake of cataclysm — that is who we are.
Trilobites The cataclysm, which occurred roughly 2.2 billion years ago, might have catapulted the planet out of an ice age.
The world of Krynn has lost touch with its gods after a period of massive destruction known as the Cataclysm.
Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court will, barring some sort of cataclysm, make it the Senate floor later this week.
Uber spent the past year reeling from a new leak-induced PR cataclysm every four months, but now it loves leaks?
Along for the ride is a boastful demigod (Dwayne Johnson) who started a slow-burn cataclysm by stealing a goddess' heart.
As Chancellor Merkel saw it, the alternative to sending back the refugees was political inertia at best, political cataclysm at worst.
I found solace in starting in the Valley of Trials, unchanged since the Cataclysm expansion (and not all that changed, honestly).
The question is whether this time — with the nation facing a simultaneous health crisis and economic cataclysm — will be any different.
Culturally, the cataclysm prompted an increase in mysticism as so much suffering challenged the religious dominance of the Roman Catholic Church.
Eventually, tremoloes and distortion heave into the atmosphere — and the track suddenly ends, opening the question of what cataclysm may impend.
"There is never going to be this great cataclysm of job loss," Mr. Hancock, the University of Central Florida professor, said.
A wall drawing, a collaboration  between Yahsua Klos and Kambui Olujimi portrayed the destruction of large office towers, struck by cataclysm.
We must harness that leverage to weaken the Kim regime before it is too late and North Korean aggression leads to cataclysm.
During the financial crisis, the Bush and Obama administrations — with the Federal Reserve — saved America, and the world, from an economic cataclysm.
Her barriers are being shaken, not by cataclysm, but by the steady drip of a loneliness that she can no longer abide.
So Trump has a genuine dilemma: Inaction may be perceived as weakness, while military strikes may escalate and drag us into cataclysm.
Nathalie Tocci, director of the Institute for International Affairs in Rome, said Mr. Macron's victory had helped the bloc avoid a cataclysm.
When, in May of 1780, sudden darkness settled on New England, farmers perceived it as a cataclysm heralding the return of Christ.
The Maduro government, doubling down on the disastrous economic policies imposed by the late President Hugo Chavez, has produced a social cataclysm.
My Bayreuth sojourn ended with that "Götterdämmerung," with its themes of cataclysm, the fading of old orders and the possibility of redemption.
A walk into this isolated place, where nature's power to rebound from cataclysm is so clearly on display, can be intensely spiritual.
Throughout the 1920s and '30s, many of the superpowers that would eventually clash in the cataclysm of World War II funded documentaries.
Each defeat in the game is met with a retreat back to the beginning of the cataclysm, just before everything started going downhill.
And I think it mind-bends them a little bit, because not knowing the full cataclysm means maybe there's some place to go.
Domestic anarchy may darken the future, but one of its harbingers can make lemon meringue pie and the cataclysm is at least postponed.
What's striking about Crosby's telling isn't the drama of her injury, but how the cataclysm of the accident seems to lie beyond words.
The Cataclysm expansion literally changed parts of the game world, so there are areas from when I played that are radically different now.
The first European efforts at literary horror, the sort we call Gothic, occurred within a few decades of this geological and spiritual cataclysm.
But in the 1970s she was placed on house arrest while the country underwent a political cataclysm, and she now lives in Spain.
Women were key to rebuilding Rwanda in 1994, as an ethnic cataclysm erupted leaving 800,000 dead and millions of survivors suffering unspeakable trauma.
A bristlecone frost ring from 1560 B.C. is now considered to be a strong candidate for the temporal marker of the Thera cataclysm.
Any model that presumed a one-time cataclysm, such as a star's dying flash or the merger of stars or black holes, was out.
And a new theory proposes that the cataclysm which created the rings may also have brought into being quite a few of Saturn's moons.
The main working dynamic here is the Precipice Rule, which says that sides will squawk, shout and threaten but back away before a cataclysm.
It was this story, Jane went on after a while, that caused the cataclysm of realization—what she had called the revolution—to occur.
"It would take a cataclysm for this to change," Schvartsman told analysts on a conference call, a day after posting solid second-quarter results.
What's needed this time is not soul-searching a few years from now, but action today to end the war and prevent a cataclysm.
Most Iranians say the changes underway are so widespread and so widely accepted that it would take a cataclysm for them to be reversed.
Yet those kids ended up riding into a cataclysm, as working-class communities disintegrated across America, felled by lost jobs, broken families and despair.
On TV, it plays out far less neatly: Following teases that began with last year's Elseworlds crossover, a long-gestating cataclysm is finally here.
The observations have allowed scientists to recreate the steps by which it started coming apart tens of thousands of years before the final cataclysm.
The comparatively straighter "Anna and the Apocalypse" also features the usual girl-and-boy blah-blah, which plays out against a wan zombie cataclysm.
A very dark comedy about sexual liberation and emotional cataclysm, this Phoebe Waller-Bridge monologue, which birthed the Amazon series, arrives in New York.
Isolated from each other, the various forms of brushstrokes and photographic facsimiles drift across the smooth white surface like survivors of an unknown cataclysm.
Clever financial "products" broke, setting off a cataclysm of joblessness and homelessness across the country and abroad in the aftermath of which we still dwell.
If studios suddenly go cold on cataclysm stories, chances are we won't see them really wind down until the end of Trump's first (gulp) term.
That cosmic cataclysm changed the Milky Way's structure forever, shaping the thick spirals that spin out from the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's core.
It was nothing like the current cataclysm, just the loss of a single life, and why the story had stuck with me, I couldn't say.
In the cataclysm of the Depression, the president was able to summon up the sense of collective purpose needed to embark on large-scale change.
When the cataclysm is climatic and local or regional in scope, the president needs to visit the sites of the destruction as quickly as feasible.
After the cataclysm of World War II, European leaders concluded that the disaster was a product of an excess of politics in this elemental sense.
And here were the ancient Mayans and their contemporary acolytes to predict the end of all things, a global cataclysm that would swallow us all.
Recently, I spoke with several playwrights — via telephone and email — about what it is like to first imagine a cataclysm and then live through one.
Style ____ Emotions are still raw over the tragedy and the class divisions it exposed, and little seems to have been done to prevent another cataclysm.
His new album, "Die Trommel Fatale," out June 15, passes you through a gantlet of anxiety, promising little more than cataclysm at the other end.
On Wednesday in New York, the new political cataclysm felt to many not homegrown but like something that started someplace else and washed up here.
It did not end in cataclysm, as it rightfully could have, but with that most human of tendencies: the dream of a new and better future.
This week, two events in particular are worth considering in tandem: one a cataclysm, the other a tragically predictive attempt to understand how such cataclysms occur.
"If you were to ask us what cataclysm is most likely now, we'd say some Trump-related accident that causes the dishevelment of society," he says.
As Sigrid Nunez wrote in these pages, "The survivors do not think, act or speak like people struck by such a cataclysm" as the flu pandemic.
Suddenly, the immense and frightening upheaval, the cataclysm that means nothing can go back to normal, is here, and it's so different from what we imagined.
Earth's Oldest Asteroid Impact Found in Australia: The cataclysm, which occurred roughly 2.2 billion years ago, might have catapulted the planet out of an ice age.
The central bank in April released economic indicators for the first time in the nearly four years, showing a less severe cataclysm than figures published by congress.
In the spring of 1939, with the world on the brink of a terrible cataclysm, Takács shocked the nation by winning the Hungarian national pistol shooting championships.
On "Fear the Future," she belts the title as the song reaches a pyrotechnic cataclysm that sounds like a truckload of fireworks being dumped inside a volcano.
The parameters of his weird world unfold minute by minute: at first, it seems like he and his parents might be the only survivors of some cataclysm.
Scientists behind a "Doomsday Clock" that measures the likelihood of a global cataclysm are set to announce Tuesday whether civilization is any closer or farther from disaster.
Therefore, dominion over the Earth really seems like a lottery: whoever happens to bounce back first is able to found an uncontested dynasty until the next cataclysm.
Average surface temperatures might be held down by a few degrees worldwide, these experts suggest — enough, they theorize (maybe with fingers crossed), to stave off environmental cataclysm.
Or perhaps more aptly the Mt. St. Helens of books, since it seemed possible that at any moment some subterranean shift in it might cause a cataclysm.
Then he reveals that American researchers have made breakthroughs in fertility since the cataclysm, and that she could have a biological baby of her own in Honolulu.
Abraham Lincoln must stop being the father to a lost boy and assume his role as a father to a nation, one on the brink of cataclysm.
Peloton Interactive had a disappointing debut earlier Thursday, following the disappointing debuts of Lyft and Uber earlier this year and the WeWork cataclysm of the past month.
That's because this beguiling program of expressive and richly ornate polyphonic works from the English Renaissance constituted an encounter with survivors of a much older cultural cataclysm.
Tensions came to a climax in 2015, when Mr. Cahn suggested in a book and during several TV appearances that an imminent cataclysm was on the horizon.
Lead author Richard Zeebe of the University of Hawaii said geological records were vague and "it's not well known if/how much carbon was released" in that cataclysm.
Newton, a small city 30 miles east of Des Moines, suffered a cataclysm in 653 when a Maytag washing machine plant closed, idling about 1,000 well-paid workers.
Fully aware of the cataclysm that will befall Earth should the lone alien terrorist slip through their fingers, the agency handles its business soberly and with relative professionalism.
Maybe worse, according to this year's National Climate Assessment, our window to prevent a global environmental cataclysm caused entirely by human industry is rapidly drawing to a close.
It instead leads to Trump and Hannity joining forces to block an economic cataclysm that will allegedly be unleashed by a totally fake version of the congressional Democrats.
In the absence of such a cataclysm, and with the support of central banks, governments that have borrowed in their own currency should not face an imminent problem.
In her new novel, "The Sunlight Pilgrims," she is committed to disrupting our ease by setting her story of impending cataclysm at a moment unnervingly near at hand.
In many ways the world itself was literally different, as Blizzard reshaped the geography of zones and quest progression of the core continents for 2010's Cataclysm expansion.
In the case of the 210 guide, for example, I was eventually asked to explain the Nibiru cataclysm theory but to avoid addressing it until the last chapter.
This man, Neil, is a historian who has quit writing his fifth monograph in favor of a "hybrid piece," a novelized history of a time before the Cataclysm.
Whether this event really turns out to be a storm from which the economy rebounds, or a cataclysm that wreaks far more consequential changes, cannot be easily answered.
We may have traded 221s-level poverty and hunger for a resurgence in racism, sexism and environmental cataclysm, but our problems are no less serious — or spiritually disorienting.
She flits among a large assembly of characters to show that a cataclysm like "the Black Death" was experienced differently by those who came into contact with it.
With 90% of the country's economy dependent on oil, all of this points to an emerging cataclysm in a Kingdom unused to either fiscal conservatism or economic want.
The fish carcasses were not bloated, decayed, or scavenged, suggesting that they were buried quickly — and that few animals were left alive after the cataclysm to come digging.
Most paleontologists think that the climatic cataclysm that followed killed three-quarters of the species living on Earth — and all of the dinosaurs except those that evolved into birds.
And it turns out a Cape Canaveral cataclysm—or, if you prefer, a Wallops Island walloping, or a Vandenberg devastation—could cost that program far more than it expects.
"And now, people seem to be tossing out the frivolous in favor of anything practical — as if they're preparing for a cataclysm," the Los Angeles Times reported in 1976.
But in the longer term, the shock and rethinking it will cause in some circles just might precipitate political and cultural changes we need to stave off climate cataclysm.
A beautiful opening ceremony and 16 days of sports competitions without any cataclysm don't count as a triumph when there are two questions that remain unanswered: Success for whom?
But even as that crisis subsided, hospitals began grappling with the aftermath of another industry cataclysm — serious manufacturing problems at Pfizer, the nation's largest maker of generic injectable drugs.
Crucially, neither of these malevolent geniuses would have emerged from obscurity were it not for the first great cataclysm of the 20th century, then known as the Great War.
The 2010s brought with them an appalling cataclysm of both pre-Islamic and Muslim sites there, sometimes as collateral damage and sometimes, horribly, as a deliberate act of war.
In the White Russian emigrant world into which I was born, the Russian Revolution was a horrible cataclysm that destroyed our Holy Russia and installed a demonic, murderous regime.
If you've been thinking that humanity is hardly worth the trouble to keep around then maybe a cataclysm, or the fear of cataclysms to come, seems like a relief.
How can it be that we're living on a planet that is, in many ways, the best place to live in human history, but also on the verge of cataclysm?
So many Black Mirror episodes ramp up the speed and intensity to manic heights, until, say, the wrong person showing up at a wedding in "Nosedive" feels like a cataclysm.
In happier news, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking thinks we're probably looking at another 1,000 years, max, before some kind of global cataclysm on Earth wipes us out as a species.
Dany's return is historically important because Dragonstone belonged to her family, dating back hundreds of years, before the fall of Valyria in an unknown magical cataclysm that shattered the empire.
Some past U.N. reports say that human pressures mean the world is heading for a "sixth extinction" comparable to the cataclysm that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
On Wednesday, the same group of astronomers announced that they had detected a second pair of black holes that devoured each other in another cosmic cataclysm 1.4 billion years ago.
I love that Horizon picks up long after whatever techno-cataclysm caused society to collapse, at a point when humans have forgotten how any of the machines around them work.
Then a cataclysm occurs, creating a world in which the "careful theater" of civilization has been stripped away and leaving Frankie, her colleague, and the bonobos dependent on one another.
Governments and humanitarian groups face a double cataclysm: the damage inflicted by the cyclone itself, which destroyed innumerable homes, and the severe flooding afterward, likened to a rising inland ocean.
" Struggling to make sense of the cataclysm unfolding across California, with so many fires burning, firefighters and officials have often described what the state is facing as the "new normal.
This toothy, piscean predator's discovery builds on an emerging picture of the recovery from life's nastiest die-off, one that suggests a dogged persistence of life in the wake of cataclysm.
In the same way that firing then-FBI Director James Comey caused a cataclysm in politics, getting rid of Sessions would cause a similar convulsion -- and possibly an even bigger one.
It was President Kennedy's insistence on a diplomatic track over the 13 fateful days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 that helped avert a nuclear cataclysm with the Soviet Union.
Of course there have been some visual upgrades and aesthetic changes, and then the expansion World of Warcraft: Cataclysm changed the actual landscape of many of the games' zones and storylines.
CLEAVING TO A barren mountainside above the plain of Nineveh, the Syriac Orthodox monastery of Mar Mattai (pictured above) offers a bleak view of the cataclysm that grips the Arab world.
But with the way the bond market has been behaving of late, you'd expect to be in the midst of a cataclysm, not within spitting distance of record highs for stocks.
Homeowners in mountain neighborhoods spend much of the day sniffing the air on their porches and looking for wisps of smoke that could be the first warning sign of a cataclysm.
More and more, and not without reason, ecologically engaged artists seem to be moving away from a vocabulary of advocacy and resistance; coming to terms with cataclysm is more the way.
The United Nations High Commission on Refugees estimates that an unprecedented 2023 million people around the globe have been forced from their homes, for reasons ranging from war to environmental cataclysm.
With the United States distracted by other international and domestic matters, Pakistan and India stand once again at the brink of nuclear cataclysm with seemingly no one ready to stop them.
Peloton hit the market on Thursday amid a wave of investor skepticism, following the disappointing debuts of Lyft and Uber earlier this year and the WeWork cataclysm of the past month.
There are ghostly vocal samples, amorphous scraping sounds, thunderous kicks, and that's about it—a self conscious attempt at invoking the terrors of interplanetary cataclysm without overloading the mix with moving pieces.
The development of new machine learning technologies, autonomous weapons systems, cyber threats and social media manipulation are already destabilizing the global political order and potentially increasing the risk of a nuclear cataclysm.
Each president was frightened by State Department warnings that the Islamic world will rise up in protest and create a cataclysm in the Middle East that will spread to the United States.
For more than a decade he has talked about the need for a self-sufficient colony of people on Mars to ensure that the human race could survive an Earth-wrecking cataclysm.
This gripping survey of prehistory's extinction events (the death of the dinosaurs was only the most recent) is motivated by the fear that we are on the brink of another such cataclysm.
And everyone here wanted to speculate early for when it happened, to mete out Judgement Day's cataclysm unequally and build a privatized new world that, intentionally or not, kept things that way.
The popularity of survivalist merchandise—gear used to prepare for a cataclysm or the end of times—offers interesting insight into people's anxieties concerning natural disasters, political situations, or even technological development.
While it makes sense that he wouldn't want a startup name that evokes the memory of a disaster, Nutanix was actually born in the middle of an economic cataclysm, the Great Recession. 
Though she would only fully embrace the principle of amor mundi, love of the world, after contending philosophically with the cataclysm of World War II, the insatiable curiosity was there early on.
But Mr. Bannon, choosing his words carefully, allowed that while he did not believe a cataclysm like global war was inevitable, failing to prepare as if one might happen would be foolish.
Picking up nine weeks after the first installment's wasp-filled cataclysm, the series finds Sheriff Dan Anderssen (Richard Dormer) vanished into the glacial wilderness after shooting the woman (Verónica Echegui) he loved.
Unlike seemingly anyone currently serving in the Trump administration, Armitage took the threat of nuclear cataclysm seriously when an attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001 caused both sides to threaten devastation.
In reaction to the bloodshed of World War I and to the cataclysm of the Great Depression — a global phenomenon — the United States spent the interwar years deeply skeptical of engagement overseas.
It's technically an adventure film, centered on unlikely companions embarking on an unusual journey, but it's also a post-apocalyptic story about being the only person left alive after a tremendous cataclysm.
Since the Cataclysm of centuries before, the vast civilization that used to rule this world has shattered, and the one that rose up to replace it is grubby and petty and vulgar.
As a result, Castro figured prominently in two of the era's watersheds: the humiliating fiasco at the Bay of Pigs, followed 17 months later by the near cataclysm of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
But beyond the incremental updates they've already been delivering—"events, store refreshes, and revisiting past seasonal and cataclysm content"—there won't be much coming to Anthem until this soft reboot comes to pass.
The cataclysm itself appears, from the direction the knocked-over trees are pointing in, to have been a flood resulting from the melting and sudden rupturing of Myrdalsjokull, the glacier that overlies Katla.
And it rested on a recognition, shared among key participants, that the continental cataclysm that had befallen Europe in the three decades prior to Westphalia simply could not be permitted to happen again.
Despite Trump's surprising victory last year, McKibben isn't giving up on the fight to protect our planet from looming environmental cataclysm — though with a Republican-controlled Congress, he has his work cut out.
You may not agree with everything she says or everything she's done or will do, but you can at least be sure that a Clinton presidency won't lead to some enormous unforeseen cataclysm.
I'm on an island that is experiencing a cataclysm, and the ground is disappearing from beneath allies and enemies alike, dropping them down into some terrible abyss at the heart of the earth.
On reading this advertisement I leaped up from my chair, because the stamp he wanted was one of my duplicates (among the stamps that my father had collected in Warsaw, before the cataclysm).
Where they struggle is in conveying how it would feel to live a life so tightly entombed in cataclysm that manipulation and abuse become simple facts of life, not dark horrors to overcome.
Ancient climate changer: The planet's oldest asteroid impact, from 2.2 billion years ago, was found in Western Australia — and researchers suggested the cataclysm might have catapulted the planet out of an ice age.
And it's been a cataclysm for nearly all of the accused men, who, regardless of whether they have apologized publicly, reacted defensively, or have chosen to stay silent, have largely remained out of sight.
"Einstein would be very happy, I think," a joyous physicist said after a team she is part of announced the discovery of a faint trace of a cosmic cataclysm from a billion years ago.
Cole's meandering, colourful letters to investors have gained a cult following in parts of Wall Street, by predicting an inevitable volatility-triggered financial cataclysm, citing Goethe, George Lucas and Dennis Rodman along the way.
All eyes on what's next The furor over Trump's performance is so deep and so intense that it will dominate the news agenda for at least the next several days, absent some other cataclysm.
Barring a last-minute cataclysm on Capitol Hill, President Donald Trump is set to savor a major tax reform package before Christmas and finally secure an achievement that will live alongside him in history.
A cataclysm in the outside world sometimes intrudes on his ability to create—after the Brexit vote, in 2016, he could not write for a week—but it does not reshape his sound world.
Sometimes the black hole spends eons inhaling matter as fast as physically possible, converting that matter into energy in a long-lasting cataclysm, each instant the equivalent of billions of thermonuclear weapons detonating simultaneously.
In the past decade, the world survived, without violence, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression; Ebola, without cataclysm; and, in Japan, a tsunami and nuclear meltdown, after which the country has persevered.
They're quick, incredibly powerful and happen about once a day as the light from some distant cataclysm reaches us, the result of massive stars collapsing or neutron stars merging in galaxies far, far away.
I dived into theories of the Anthropocene, which according to some researchers started with the creation of the 'New World,' and related those ruins to the vestiges of a human and wider ecological cataclysm.
VIENNA — In rejecting a far-right candidate for president on Sunday, voters in Austria showed the limitations of President-elect Donald J. Trump's tailwinds on a continent where extremist politics have traditionally brought cataclysm.
He seemed as concerned with an on-course sprinkler system as with the geopolitical cataclysm unfolding around him and suggested currency contagion unleashed by the vote could actually be a good thing for his business.
The story picks up centuries after that cataclysm, with the birth of the two children, whose ability to see puts them at risk of being killed by a tribe that views eyesight as a sin.
But his version of "America First" — which interestingly converges with the views of many on the left who are convinced that the United States should stop policing the world — looks like a recipe for cataclysm.
LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - Environmental activists sought to sow chaos in five British cities on Monday in a bid to force the government to act to help avert what they cast as a climate cataclysm.
I wake up to throw off the covers and lie there, wondering if my beleaguered country can survive the cataclysm that has befallen it, if the Earth itself can survive the convulsion it is undergoing.
It was also a near-perfect distillation of the aesthetic practiced and refined by the Mr. Brook, now 19833, during six decades, and a resonant portrait of the echoing silence that succeeds war and cataclysm.
It was the second occasion the timepiece, created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as an indicator of the world's susceptibility to cataclysm, was moved forward since the 2016 election of U.S. president Donald Trump.
By the third trip, only one of the original three remains, everyone's life having changed as profoundly as China, a cataclysm that's expressed by a series of rapid explosions in the river, suggesting a drowning world.
God, or the gods, or some higher power would finally toss up his/her/their hands and hit the cosmic reset button with fire, a flood, or some other cataclysm that would wipe the slate clean.
There was a short, splintered pew that was upright but not steady, a small space, a human space, where she sat awkwardly, feeling the inconsequence of her presence, feeling the sorrowful cataclysm being silently enacted there.
My awareness of the Holocaust—the great cataclysm that had bit branches off so many of our family trees—was from my earliest school days wrapped in the story of the establishment of the Jewish state.
There's a rhetorical violence to declaring that a place is morally empty, a place where all actions are justifiable because "no people" live there, because it's been abandoned due to some cataclysm we don't care about.
It can become tedious to dwell on the fact that the president is a dangerous and ignorant narcissist who has utterly failed as an executive, leaving state governments on their own to confront a generational cataclysm.
It can become tedious to dwell on the fact that the president is a dangerous and ignorant narcissist who has utterly failed as an executive, leaving state governments on their own to confront a generational cataclysm.
Instead, Mr. Putin seems determined to ride a wave of Russian nationalism, Christian fundamentalism and anti-Semitism like the one 100 years ago that helped bring the Russian empire to the cataclysm of war and revolution.
If they did form in a recent cataclysm, said Militzer, such an event would dramatically change our perspective: It would imply that our planetary neighborhood hasn't entirely outgrown the bedlam of its primeval days just yet.
While we dismiss the increase in tornadoes, hailstorms and forest fires as "weather events" and ignore the inexorable rise in sea levels, they serve as nature's gentle but persistent warning of the cataclysm that awaits us.
To portray a world in people's minds, viscerally and with video, that there is some sort of cataclysm that is about to ruin their lives in Presque Isle, Maine, or, you know, in North Platte, Nebraska.
In 2015, which set an all-time record for domestic box office grosses at $11.1 billion, 10 of the top 40 earning films featured some earthly global cataclysm, its aftermath, or at very least, its imminent threat.
He said that nothing short of a massive natural disaster or an economic cataclysm similar to the global crisis sparked in 2008 by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, would prevent it from going ahead.
But years after rotten loans and plunging home values made Las Vegas the center of the housing crisis, thousands of people have yet to recover from the cataclysm that tipped the United States economy into a recession.
The vintage fighter plane he was flying at the time was not made by XTI, which is still years away from having a functioning prototype, but his death in February was a cataclysm for the fledgling company.
The events that have cascaded from the Harvey Weinstein revelations until today aren't as obvious a cataclysm as, say, a hurricane or a flood or a terrorist attack or someone with a gun murdering dozens of people.
As uneventful as was his youth in Wadowice, his young adulthood was transformed by the cataclysm of World War II. Poland's loss during the war is hard to fathom, with six million killed, including three million Jews.
When Sanders started his ecommerce business back in 2012, he was inspired by Doomsday Preppers, the National Geographic show that documents the great lengths to which some "preppers" go to plan for economic collapse or environmental cataclysm.
"Embedded in the prepper ethos is a deep distrust of public systems, fueled by the belief that we're one cataclysm away from a Hobbesian state of unrestrained every-man-for-himself (and-his-family) competition," she writes.
WARSAW — Nearly a decade after it was first proposed, Poland's Museum of the Second World War, billed as the most comprehensive public exhibition in Europe about the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century, opened on March 23.
The show, generously curated by Vivian Endicott Barnett and imaginatively designed by Peter Kimpe, offers a view of historical cataclysm — in this case, the emergence of abstraction — that's all the more illuminating for its limited, personal horizons.
And thus Blizzard literally destroyed much of the old world's design with 2010's Cataclysm expansion, chucking much of the old world's quests in favor of a single-player focused story that made you the world's greatest hero.
In the fall of 2008, financial regulators were faced with a series of impossible choices: take extraordinary action to prevent the failure of large, complex financial institutions, or let them fail — and let the country face economic cataclysm.
He turned himself into the New York City Police Department in May -- nearly eight months after an explosive exposé sparked a cataclysm of women who have publicly accused the disgraced movie mogul of sexual assault, harassment and rape.
These films were built around a certain rather predictable model: a cast of stars, desperate to survive a cataclysm, which in the former took the shape of a capsized ocean liner and in the latter a skyscraper aflame.
They do not know how it formed, but have some hypotheses, including the possibility that a cataclysm within NGC1052-DF2 swept away all its gas and dark matter or that a massive nearby galaxy played havoc with it.
There is a millenarian current running through her work that feels absolutely true to this moment in history: we are on the brink of some kind of cataclysm, but we are not sure how it will manifest itself.
The cost of failure is clear Not passing a bill to repeal Obamacare would be a cataclysm for Ryan and his party and risk alienating grassroots voters who have sent gradually increasing majorities to Washington to get it done.
In the standard paradigm of the Hadean eon, these strikes culminated in an assault dubbed the Late Heavy Bombardment, also known as the lunar cataclysm, in which asteroids emigrated to the inner solar system and pounded the rocky planets.
The division between commercial and investment banking imposed by Glass-Steagall, enacted in 1933 amid the Great Depression, prevented banks from using customer deposits to take high-octane gambles in the market that could bring on another financial cataclysm.
For instance: Armon's document includes occasional illustrations depicting archaeological remnants of pre-Cataclysm times, among them Apple products described as stamped with a mysterious "Bitten Fruit motif" and captioned with the speculation that iPads were used to serve food.
Instead the puzzle was hinting at a more personal cataclysm, and it took a while for me to fill out "AA MEETING"; another example of a clue with gnarly, unusual twinned letters to make you doubt yourself when solving.
Although the film is based on a story by Liu Cixin, it draws on a barely digested stew of planetary-cataclysm movies, with the eco-catastrophe and invasion films of Roland Emmerich serving as the most obvious spiritual guides.
Still, three decades and a full-on global cataclysm can change a man, and the Deckard we finally catch up with in the year 2150 is a lot like 22049 itself: Hardened, precision-built, and capable of swift, sudden violence.
Blizzard revealed that it's working on creating official vanilla servers called World of Warcraft Classic, which will give players the chance to explore the original world of Azeroth before Burning Crusade invaded in 2006 and Cataclysm revamped everything in 2010.
From this time capsule, we learned that the moon was likely formed when a Mars-size object slammed into an early version of the Earth, forming the moon out of an ocean of magma left in the wake of the cataclysm.
WoW was first released in 2004, and in the fourteen years since, expansions and patches have introduced iconic features like flight (Burning Crusade), the dungeon finder (Wrath of the Lich King), transmogrification (Cataclysm), garrisons (Warlords of Draenor), and artifact weapons (Legion).
LONDON (Reuters) - Environmental activists plan protests outside banks including Goldman Sachs, the Bank of England, Rothschild and Nomura on the final day of protests aimed at forcing Britain to take action to avert what they cast as a global climate cataclysm.
Every week at the manic pace Trump keeps feels like a blur -- none more than this week, in which the President and his administration lurched from controversy to cataclysm to convulsion and back, all in the space of five days.
"The notion that we would weaken one of the few statutes that was used effectively to confront structural failures on Wall Street defies logic, at a moment so soon after the economic cataclysm of 2008," Mr. Spitzer said in an interview.
The current furor may be over the shutdown and the border wall, but regardless of how the cataclysm of the moment turns out, Stephen Miller will likely continue his campaign to deter, defeat and demonize immigrants to the United States.
To write and record his debut album Cataclysm, released last fall, Phillips holed up in a remote fishing village in Iceland; he used everything from an electric guitar to drumsticks and an Ikea pot as instruments, and documented the entire process.
Last week, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected that the world has only 12 years to overhaul the global economy if we're to avoid cataclysm; we simply can't afford unforced errors in the time we have left.
Brantley in Britain LONDON — When the news you wake up to each morning has the menace of a Rottweiler's growl — with unending stories of civil strife and looming nuclear cataclysm — it is understandable if you feel the urge to retreat.
"The notion that we would weaken one of the few statutes that was used effectively to confront structural failures on Wall Street defies logic, at a moment so soon after the economic cataclysm of 2008," Mr. Spitzer said in an interview.
Maybe you've got a less pragmatic approach to survival and after a world-ending cataclysm your first priority would be getting your hands on the keys to a brand new mid-engine Corvette, or that '68 Charger you've always dreamed of.
McCammon's findings, and Ryan's curiously detached and uneasy way of talking about emotional vulnerability, confirmed my working theory: The curriculum of preparedness, no matter the cataclysm, isn't only about the concrete knowledge and skills a person must acquire to survive.
Despite weathering several shocks since the 2008-9 crisis, the jury is still out on how the funds - which trade as shares and aim to replicate the price of a basket of bonds or other assets - will react if another cataclysm hits.
That means neo-Nazis, white supremacists, skinheads and the rest, and Nate's job is to win their confidence and try to gain access to Dallas Wolf (Tracy Letts), a radio ranter who seems to be leading his listeners toward some kind of cataclysm.
I quit several years ago just before the release of the Cataclysm expansion after realizing it had gotten to the point where it was becoming a burden on me—sort of like an unpaid part-time job—rather than just a pastime.
With Trump showing no signs of changing his political approach, the party headed for what looks like be a cataclysm this fall and with his three kids entering their teen years, the time was ripe (and right) for Ryan to step aside.
Listens to: Dubstep—only if it's 2008 or earlier; trance—only if it's 2005 or earlierMostly posts: Rants, tirades about why things were "better before" Every age of humanity inherits a prophet who has witnessed the violent, shuddering cataclysm of the world's end.
Taxes are climbing, government services are being slashed, the teachers' pension fund is on the verge of collapse, hospitals are closing their doors, the public university system has effectively shut down, and in response to this cataclysm, tens of thousands are leaving for good.
But as Tunde observes, "Transfers of power, of course, are rarely smooth" — and as the book counts down the years to a global catastrophe the future will name the Cataclysm, Alderman explores how power corrupts everyone: those new to it, and those resisting its loss.
Yet in his narrative about those days (which is to say, these days) people exchange emails, record video on their phones and use technology that's very much of our moment despite the frame's suggestion that "electromagnetic battles" during the Cataclysm wiped out data storage.
Although the "demography is destiny" argument lost much of its luster for national Democrats after the 2016 presidential election, in North Carolina, which experienced its political cataclysm a few years ahead of the rest of the country, the idea is once again in vogue.
Like the fall of the Berlin Wall 27 years earlier to the day, Donald J. Trump's election as president of the United States was a cataclysm that brought together many vaguely perceived movements, trends and signs, abruptly signaling that our lives have been irrevocably redirected.
After the cataclysm of World War II, the country embarked on a campaign to rehabilitate its image in the form of enlightened socialism, a legacy currently under assault by the emergence of the far-right Freedom Party, one of the nationalist factions on the rise across Europe.
Like Midsommar, grief distorts time, causes delusions, strips the world of all sense and meaning, makes living feel like only a contrast to death, an absurd clash between the surreal cataclysm of losing a loved one and the mundanity of the everyday continuing like nothing happened.
READ: North Korea just fired some more missiles a few days after Trump said it's NBD "The United States and Russia are now in a state of strategic instability; an accident or mishap could set off a cataclysm," former Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz and former Sen.
This belief was the group's way of tearing up what had gone before, the culture that brought on the cataclysm, not unlike the Dadaists during World War I. But Piene, for one, didn't define the group's work as anti-art, or as anything less than deadly serious.
As in many dystopian novels, the narrative hints at its back story through the ominous appearance in the text of unexplained proper nouns — the Change, the Breeders, the Others — before revealing that an environmental cataclysm has produced rising sea levels and extreme weather across the globe.
If the previous two books were about living on the edge of cataclysm without fully understanding it, this one is about being compelled to act by the realization that the world is about to change drastically — or that it's already done so without your realizing it.
The 103-page catalog is its own monument, weighing in at more than 10 pounds, and its dozens of contributors reground postwar art in the cataclysm of the Holocaust, the rise of the Iron Curtain, African decolonization movements, and nationalist reforms from Latin America to Southeast Asia.
Doesn't it feel like if you spun a globe and blindly set your finger down, if you didn't find yourself in the middle of the sea you would probably hit a spot where some natural cataclysm had just happened (or was in the process of devastation now)?
On our little rise above Balanced Rock, Mr. Smith and I had front-row seats to an ancient bedrock cataclysm: pinwheeling stone staircases, lager-tinted turrets and weird, fanged crags poised over petrified sand dunes, and farther off, the La Sal Mountains — loping green knuckles streaked with old snow.
While Democrats across California were scrambling to avoid a potential cataclysm wrought by the state's top-two primary system, San Franciscans easily navigated a mayoral race in which two candidates, Mark Leno and Jane Kim, teamed up and asked voters to rank them first and second, in either order.
But this galloping retrospective of his dogged, wide-ranging trek through the colors and styles of his time has the poignant appeal of a war diary, offering a view of historical cataclysm — in this case, the emergence of abstraction — all the more illuminating for its limited, personal horizons.
The irony of this didn't escape me: While I'd been drawn to freeze-dried food as a convenient way of preparing for a cataclysm that may never come, there I was, toiling away for hours in the kitchen to prepare a dish I'd be eating that night and the next day.
Europe, which stood at the center of the international system for nearly 400 years, suffered repeated descents into cataclysm, from the Thirty Years' War of the 17th century to the French revolutionary wars in the late 18th and early 19303th centuries to the two world wars of the 20th century.
If the Republican "power brokers" had any actual power, and if they truly see a Trump nomination as the cataclysm they claim it would be, they would summon the other four candidates—Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, and Ben Carson—to a woodshed where they would knock some heads together.
Ultimately, it took the cataclysm of Nazism and its defeat in the Second World War to make the Federal Republic of Germany open itself up to the basic principles" of Enlightenment philosophy, Mr. Gauck said: "inalienable human rights and the rule of law, separation of powers, representative democracy and popular sovereignty.
Their displacement from the Galician city of Lvov (now Lviv, Ukraine) to Gliwice in Poland, part of the massive resettlement of the city's Poles that took place after World War II, was a defining cataclysm for the family — a kind of year zero that forever oriented their self-understanding as exiles.
But this galloping retrospective, closing on Monday, of his dogged, wide-ranging trek through the colors and styles of his time has the poignant appeal of a war diary, offering a view of historical cataclysm — in this case, the emergence of abstraction — all the more illuminating for its limited, personal horizons.
"Over 100 years of queer activism, the national cataclysm of 600,000 dead of AIDS, the sacrifices of front line people giving up the privileges of the closet and paying a high price -- all this sacrifice results in society changing in ways that are both large and very small," she explained.
That removal would have set off a political cataclysm, with Democrats insisting that Trump was abusing executive power to protect himself and even some Republicans, who to that point had largely stayed in line behind Trump, breaking free at what would have looked like a very clear power play by the chief executive.
If the courts force Puerto Rico to tell police, teachers, doctors and firefighters to stay at home—which Alejandro García Padilla, the governor, has said he would refuse to do—a debt crisis that has so far been relatively contained and slow-moving would erupt into a cataclysm comparable to Argentina's in 2001.
But as the years passed the evidence mounted, until, in a 19813 paper, the smoking gun was announced : the discovery of an impact crater buried under thousands of feet of sediment in the Yucatán peninsula, of exactly the right age, and of the right size and geochemistry, to have caused a worldwide cataclysm.
In 2009 President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaTuesday primary turnout slumps amid coronavirus anxiety Biden has broken all the 'rules' of presidential primaries Presidential do's and don'ts during natural disasters MORE, right after taking office, pushed a big stimulus package bailing out financial firms and the auto industry — and prevented an economic cataclysm.
It is in fact more than 12 billion light-years away, which means it took that long for its light to reach us, so we are glimpsing this cataclysm as it appeared at the dawn of time, only 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, when stars and galaxies were furiously forming.
In such scenarios, Jews are the secret force behind every major social development from capitalism to democracy, every major cataclysm from the Medieval Pandemic of the plague through the French and Russian Revolutions to the collapse of Communism, and now, incredibly, appear for the first time, as the secret force behind slavery.
And while Field Music's fourth studio album—with its lush strings and woodwind skipping into jaunty electronic drums and almost kitschy horns—is as direct a response to that cataclysm as you'll find in art-pop (or anywhere), it is compelling because it doesn't pretend to know precisely what the hell happened.
While it's not guaranteed to rise over the long run, if it doesn't, that's probably going to be because some cataclysm — a nuclear war destroys the basic infrastructure of American cities or a genuinely apocalyptic epidemic like something out of The Stand — occurred that gave you something bigger to worry about than your retirement fund.
Letter To the Editor: Re " 'This Is Not a Drill': The Growing Threat of Nuclear Cataclysm," by Clyde Haberman (Retro Report, May 14): Denuclearization is a term no one has been able to clearly define or agree on, and yet it is at the center of the talks between the Koreas and the United States.
He was boarding a bus to the malaria-infested gold mines to the east, where he hoped to scrape out enough money to buy food for his family and, eventually, finance an even longer journey: to Ecuador or Peru, where he would follow a stampede of his fellow Venezuelans fleeing the country's economic cataclysm.
Everyone here — and I mean everyone, from extreme right to extreme left — understands that in this land, whose name comes from the Aymara language for the place where the earth ends, we are witnessing a cataclysm of epic proportions that presages another sort of end, the end of the world as we know it.
Lee (Casey Affleck) walks through the film seeming like he might get into a fight with anybody who talks to him, and by the time the film reveals why he is the way he is (like many Sad White Person Movies, Manchester by the Sea is something of an emotional mystery), you're more than ready for the cataclysm.
At the center of what lives and dreams an unmistakable and debtless intelligence or a cataclysm of unmanaged resources that could buy time as if it were being sold like a PowerBar or blank note pad: an unfinished categorizing of OTC suggestions could work my heart blue then yellow sky over the long drool of attractions their copious marginalia.
Manga and anime began to assert their hold on Japanese culture in the aftermath of World War II. There is hardly an aspect of modern Japan that isn't in some way rooted in this cataclysm, which, in the blinding flash of an atomic bomb, obliterated one way of looking at the world and ushered in another.
But it's undeniable that from climate change (with Tesla's emphasis on reducing the use of fossil fuels); to malevolent artificial super-intelligences (with Neuralink); and the threat of global war wreaking havoc (the Mars escape plan à la SpaceX), Musk is readying a large chunk of humanity for a coming cataclysm — and trying to avert it.
It is one of the oldest primates -- a fairly close cousin of ours, and a reminder that we humans had ancestors that were there on that terrible day, that saw the rock fall from the sky, that survived the cataclysm while the dinosaurs did not, probably because they were small, agile, adaptable and able to eat many types of food.
Their works included "The Mote in God's Eye" (21984), an outer-space saga; "Lucifer's Hammer" (21959), about humanity's attempt to regroup after a cataclysm; "Inferno" (22003) and "Escape From Hell" (2009), related stories inspired by the hell envisioned by Dante; and "Footfall," which made it to the top of The New York Times's paperback best-seller list in May 1986.
The book is a stirring account of her struggles with and ultimate rejection of her Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — an insular society of ultra-Orthodox Jews that rose in New York from the ashes of World War II. Culturally conservative and religiously strict, its members believe that their piety and refusal to assimilate will shield them from a repeat cataclysm.
The cataclysm that befell the island is, by all accounts, horrific: scores of communities with roads and telephones cut off; hospitals with dwindling fuel for generators; once verdant vistas reduced to acres of spindly trees stripped of leaves; tens of thousands of homes blasted into splintered piles of timber; and people left rationing crackers and whatever water they can scavenge.
The "algorithms" of violence, to contort Harari's own formulation, have doubtless grown more subtle, but they persist — and Harari's vision of humans doomed by superhuman biological or computational machines might well be marred by humans doomed by subhuman biological or computational machines: a terrifying contagion, a nuclear war or, most likely, a cataclysm in climate that we will be utterly powerless to stop.
The starting point for the bloody cauldron of turmoil that we call the "Modern Middle East" is 1918, when along with the Russian, German and Austrian Empires the Ottoman Empire was smashed to smithereens in the cataclysm of World War I. Into the resultant power vacuum stepped Britain and France, sensing an opportunity to write yet another chapter in their long-running colonial rivalry.
And when the cataclysm came — after Ruby Ridge, after Waco, when Timothy McVeigh and his associates, whose ties to white power Belew convincingly sketches, killed 168 Americans and injured more than 500 others in the deadliest domestic terror attack in American history — both government lawyers and the news media generally treated the bombing as a lone-wolf incident, letting the terror cells of white power retreat from the public eye, unseen until their re-emergence in recent years.
I've always been especially fond of the first place we visit in Krynn: It's an inn, because even in 1984 it was a cliché that characters meet in an inn at the beginning of a D&D campaign — but this one is built in a treetop, because after the Cataclysm, the people of the town where the inn is located decided to avoid all the dangerous nonsense happening on the ground by taking to the trees.

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