Most of those who perished were burned to death.
Why the early dinosaurs survived while the crurotarsans perished is not known, said Whiteside.
A simple memorial with the names of all of the people who perished is enough.
Although some 20m Pakistanis may be affected, the official count of those known to have perished is 1,475.
The oak tree at the base of which they are said to have perished was struck by lightning in 1879.
Dankawalie was burned down, and an uncle, one of many relatives who perished, was said to be the first person killed in the bloodshed that followed.
'Tis said the number of the ships destroyed was little short of three hundred; and the men who perished were more than twenty thousand.
Among devout Shias, the battle of Karbala in the year 680, in which their hero Hussein ibn Ali perished, is as vividly remembered as though it happened last year.
It's good to be reminded that most of those who perished were travelling to the US to make new and better lives for themselves.
An estimated 120 climbers who have perished are interred on the mountain, and mountaineers who went up the north side this season reported finding about 20 bodies.
