... Vitus in Utrecht, Germany, close to the place where a bridge plunged into the Maas river following some frantic dancing. Hence "St. Vitus' dance". ... ...observed in Scotland and Sweden following the Lisbon quake of 1755. Similarly, the Alaskan tremor in 1964 produced seiches in Texas and throughout ... ...906 was 8.3 (as was the earthquake in the Mississippi Valley in 1811), and both the Alaskan quake of 1964 and the South Asian underwater temblor of ... ...quake of 1964 and the South Asian underwater temblor of 2004 were around 9 (9.2 in Alaska to be precise). The Richter scale is used mainly by the... ...meters. An area of 240X60 kilometers sank by 1-3 meters and was flooded as a nearby river rushed in. San Francisco, April 18, 1906, 05:12 AM P... ...u/english/faculty/reilly/NCHCproject/Psychology.h tm http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Rivers/chap16.htm I-J Indians (Native Americans, Amerindians... .... Money comes in all sizes, shapes and forms. One meter long and half a meter wide copper plates were used in Alaska in the 1850s. They weighed 40 ... ...ocated 25 kilometers apart in today's territory of Iraq. Clay cylinders and albast, copper and gold tablets found at the site recount the story of t... ...ed States boasts a few statue-related records. The Statue of Liberty is the largest copper sculpture in the world. Mount Rushmore - in the Black Hil...