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Abstract This essay gives a brief overview of the events of 26-27 August 1883, when the volcanic island of Krakatoa in Indonesia exploded; it generated tsunamis which killed over 36,000 people, was heard 3,000 miles away, and produced measurable changes in sea level and air pressure across the world. The essay then discusses the findings of the Royal Society’s Report on Krakatoa, and the reports in the periodical press of lurid sunsets resulting from Krakatoa’s dust moving through the atmosphere. It closes by examining literature inspired by Krakatoa, including a letter by Gerard Manley H...

Pants came off. >> you want to go climbing again. >> firefighters told me that if i would have went down two more inches, my chest would have caved and i would have died. i would have been suffocated. >> paul is in great spirits, but he can't help but think back to those first few minutes when he wasn't sure if he was going to make it. >> my first thought was i'll never see my mom, or my friends, or stuff like that, i would never see them again. >> but somehow, the 11-year-old boy managed to compose himself. patrick roy credits paul for staying so home. and paul and his big brother credit roy ...

Not exactly a technique he le n learned in rescue school. but he's trained to come up with solutions fast. he sends tommy to go for the popular vegetable oil. >> they return within minutes, passing the lubricant into the hands of roy. >> i was letting it run down the rock on to his pants and front and back of him. >> another firefighter douses paul from above. >> we pulled and he started yelling, and i said don't stop. i said no matter how loud he screams, he's come ought. >> after two hours and 56 minutes into the ordeal, out slides paul. >> when he started moving, his

From l.a.. >> i was a little bit stunned for a second and then my mind started gearing up. >> keep it tight, i don't want him slipping down at all. >> by now it's been almost two hours. paul is understandably exhausted. captain roy knows that he'll need assistance from everyone involved, even little paul. >> at the time he was getting a little bit sleepy. i said do you play baseball? >> he said, oh, yes. >> captain roy runs through his options. none of their usual rescue techniques, pulley systems, drilling, powerful air vacs to separate rock seemed like they would work in this situation. just...

>> his legs were going to sleep quickly. he was losing circulation. >> a sheriff's deputy is able to slip a rope around him and tries to pull him up. >> i was pulling op him so hard, i couldn't believe it. that scared me, because it should have lifted someone twice his size. >> is it doing anything? >> no. >> paul is wedged so tight, rescuers fear if they pull too hard, they can yank an arm right out of its socket. >> okay, okay, okay. >> you want to take a break? >> poor kid. >> paul has been trapped for nearly an hour. local rescuers cannot pry him out. nothing seems to be work. soon l.a.'s ...