Xpat Magazine December, 2005
Speed of winds from hurricane Katrina (mph): 160
Speed of winds from Supertyphoon Haitang (mph): 145
Proportion of New Orleans underwater at the time of writing: 80%
Largest case of genocide in history: the destruction of the Native American community — between 2 and 100 million people exterminated
Number of people killed in 9/11 attacks: 2992
Number of dollars that George W. spent tracking down the evildoers who exterminated the United States original inhabitants: 0
amount per citizen the US Government spends on the War in Iraq: $766
amount per citizen the US Government spends on Tsunami Relief: $1.18
minimum count of civilians who have died in the Iraq War: 23,645
Number of Iraqis who have crashed airliners into American buildings: 0
Number of civilians that died due to the Vietnam War according to Vietnam’s Ministry of Labor: nearly 2 million
Tallest wave (m) of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: 30
Height from which the 1958 tsunami in Lituya Bay, Alaska washed trees from the mountainside: 500 meters
Height (km) of the column of ash released when Vesuvius erupted: 32
Gruesome reason that many Vesuvius victims were found with the tops of their skulls missing: heat caused their brains to explode
Temperature in F? at the center of the explosion of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 7000
Estimated number of people who died as result of the nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 200,000
Estimated number of people who died from the Black Plague: 200 million
Number of people scientists estimate that the Avian Flu could kill worldwide if it “acts similarly” to the Spanish Flu: 180 to 360 million
Number of people who died in the 1997 Hong Kong Avian flu scare: 6
Number of poultry subsequently destroyed: 1.5 million
Number of hours it took to kill the birds: 72
Number of disasters appearing in Wikipedia’s Top Ten Natural Disasters List that occurred in China: 7
Percent of women who “have experienced attempted or completed forced sex by an intimate partner or ex-partner”: 12 to 25
The female to male ratio of HIV infection in Africa: 6:1
Length in hours of Britney Spears’ first marriage: 55
Days between the annulment of Britney’s first marriage and her second wedding: 256
Number of children Britney should have by the time you read this issue of Xpat: 1
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