I mean I sat an hour and a half with a teacher telling me: 'This child has got serial men coming through the house, this one has two mommies, this one has abusive father whose home, this has alcoholism, this one has drug abuse.' It was a casualty warfare event to hear -- just her classroom -- how many dysfunctional, atypical -- to me -- structures are in the way of a kid having a chance to learn.
"For us these narratives are interesting because they often refer to real world events; warfare in the Middle East, for example, or the toppling of a dictator, and yet for all this they are lies and fabrications; romantic tales from beyond the comfort zones of the developed world," Thomson tells The Creators Project.
Pneumonic plague is the form most likely to be observed in biological warfare or bioterrorism events and interest in animal models has been raised to support plague therapeutic and vaccine studies.
For more than six decades, this organism has played an integral role in the biodefense community as a simulant for biological warfare and bioterrorism events (BW) and is commonly referred to by its military two-letter designation "BG" [1], [2].
Classic comics, such as Asterix or Tintin, deal with external events: expeditions, warfare, adventure.
Hōgen monogatari (Eng. trans. Hōgen monogatari) and Heiji monogatari (partial Eng. trans. in Translations from Early Japanese Literature) chronicle warfare that antedates the events described in Heike monogatari but were probably written somewhat later.
Newspapers and television shows provided helpful hints on how households could prepare for chemical warfare, while disparate news events are seen through the same terrorism prism -- from the attack on a Greyhound bus driver in Tennessee to the explosion of a chartered jet over the Black Sea.
While tens of thousands of civilians have fled the area, many others remain in the ancient city of Timbuktu and other towns under Islamist control, leaving them highly vulnerable in the event urban warfare breaks out.
Many paintings document — or, more accurately, recreate and commemorate — major events in maritime warfare.
"The guardsmen in this unit will be specialists in clean up and rapid response if, God forbid, there were ever an event of chemical warfare," General Cugno said.
Anyone who has been hit with chemical weapons probably does not need to be told to "decontaminate hands using soap and water," and in the event of biological warfare, people who "notice symptoms of the disease caused by an agent exposure" will probably consult a doctor even if they fail to visit the Federal Emergency Management Agency Web site.
