Sunday,
October 14, 2001
| PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
45 letters — a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles
—- is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is
also spelled -koniosis.) This and more word oddities and trivia: http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html |
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The
Top-Ten U.S. Killer Tornadoes The United States gets about 1000
recorded tornadoes every year. Today, only a few are killers, but that
has not always been so. About 200 US tornadoes have killed 18 or more
people. Of those, about 150 occurred in the 70 year period between 1879
and 1949. In
spite of an ever-burgeoning population, death figures continue to go
down as improved forecasting, detection, communications, and public
awareness increase
http://www.tornadoproject.com/toptens/toptens.htm#top |