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Volleyball defenders can't stop a spike.

Photograph of a village on the Amazon River.

Jean Myers in her flood-ravaged home. Flood waters made the mark on the wall behind her. Floating furniture made the holes in the wall.

Photograph of a young girl standing in a church that has been almost destroyed by a cyclone.

The screams and confusion of the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, KY are over, but the grim and silent task of identifying the dead remains. A woman looks for a familiar face among rows of fire victims as two medical workers keep the…

Family embraces as they watch their restaurant burn to the ground.

It was the largest fire in United States history and volunteers as well as patrons of the Beverly Hills Supper Club pitched in to help. Even though dead from smoke inhalation the patrons were pulled from the fire to make identification of the dead…

The fabulous Beverly Hills Supper Club was still burning on the hill when these three club patrons and the head hostess of the club sat in shock and disbelief.

Smoke, terror, screams and then the awful silence. 164 persons died in the fire that ripped through Beverly Hills Supper Club. The fire was only the beginning of a tragedy that included the agony of discovering lost relatives and friends, and the…

Illustration of the encroachment of cities on open spaces.