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I think we average about 20 per year
Compared with other States, Wisconsin ranks number 18 for frequency of Tornadoes, 17 for number of deaths, 20 for injuries and 19 for cost of damages. When we compare these statistics to other States by the frequency per square mile, Wisconsin ranks, number 21 for the frequency of tornadoes, number 17 for fatalities, number 23 for injuries per area and number 22 for costs per area. Based on data from 1950 - 1995.
http://www.disastercenter.com/wisconsi/tornado.html
Compared with other States, Wisconsin ranks number 18 for frequency of Tornadoes, 17 for number of deaths, 20 for injuries and 19 for cost of damages. When we compare these statistics to other States by the frequency per square mile, Wisconsin ranks, number 21 for the frequency of tornadoes, number 17 for fatalities, number 23 for injuries per area and number 22 for costs per area. Based on data from 1950 - 1995.
http://www.disastercenter.com/wisconsi/tornado.html
In 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to defend an unstable Stalinist client state. As part of its Cold War against "communism" (in reality Stalinism), the US organized a counter-revolutionary war in Afghanistan to drive out the USSR. Billions of US dollars, matched by donations from rich Saudi tycoons and the proceeds of drug money, armed and funded the extreme right wing fundamentalist Mujahadeen guerrillas in Afghanistan, hailing them as "freedom fighters." 21 years of conflict ensued in which 1.5 million people were killed.
Jubilant guerrillas on a captured Russian armored carrier. Afghanistan, April 1980.
Guerrillas with their prisoners in Kabul
Afghanistan. Picture taken from Russian soldier during Soviet-Afgan war.
Russian tanks, Afghanistan.
Jubilant guerrillas on a captured Russian armored carrier. Afghanistan, April 1980.
Guerrillas with their prisoners in Kabul
Afghanistan. Picture taken from Russian soldier during Soviet-Afgan war.
Russian tanks, Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world. In 1989, the last year for which such statistics exist, the average income per person was only $200/year. Since then it has surely dropped further due to the constant civil war. It has the fourth highest infant mortality rate in the world. Life expectancy for both men and women is 43-44 years old. Much of Afghanistan is like a scene from Mad Max or some futurist [post-holocaust] movie. Everywhere is the debris of war; Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers with their turrets torn off; the wrecks of former clinics, schools and shops; razed walls, cratered and mined roads."
A mujahideen fighter aims a US-made Stinger missile near Gardez, Afghanistan, Dec. 1991.
Hundreds of Soviet tanks rust along Afghanistan's river valleys, on mountain slopes, and in the fields, stopped by this girl's father and his brothers-in-arms in the 1980s. September 2001.
Mujahideen holds trophy, Afghanistan 2004
A mujahideen fighter aims a US-made Stinger missile near Gardez, Afghanistan, Dec. 1991.
Hundreds of Soviet tanks rust along Afghanistan's river valleys, on mountain slopes, and in the fields, stopped by this girl's father and his brothers-in-arms in the 1980s. September 2001.
Mujahideen holds trophy, Afghanistan 2004
Forgive, but never forget...
Lee Jung Hui at the gravesite of her son who was killed in the LA riots. He came to help his people defend their stores from the rioters.
Man pours buckets of water on his store's flames during the riots
Richard Rhee returning fire on looters during the riots in Korea Town.
An exhibition of photographs taken during and after the Depression is offering a rare glimpse of colour in a world that for most is envisioned in black and white.
Taken by some of America's most celebrated photographers, the haunting images of a country emerging from the bitter poverty of the 1930s and preparing for the onset of the second world war have languished unseen for decades in the archives of the Library of Congress.
In 1935, at the height of the Depression, the US government dispatched photographers to rural and small-town America to capture the terrible living conditions and drum up support for the relief programmes.
Most of the project's 175,000 prints were shot in black and white, many of which were distributed to newspaper and magazines and became some of the most famous images of American history. But some of the same photographers who took the black and white prints - Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, John Vachon - also loaded new colour Kodachrome slide film into their cameras. "Colour photography was so new that they didn't really know how to use it," said Beverly Brannan, the library's curator of documentary photos. "So they were experimenting - should you take a close up or stand back and take a panorama? Should you use it indoors? But many of the photographers were trained as artists and it really shows in the way they focus the pictures to bring out the details."
· The exhibition, Bound for Glory: America in Colour, 1939-1943, is on display at Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington until January 21.
Marion Post Wolcott
African Americans fishing in
creek near cotton plantations
Belzoni, Mississippi, October 1939
Reproduction from color slide
Marion Post Wolcott
Boys fishing in a bayou
Schriever, Louisiana, June 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Marion Post Wolcott
Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative
Vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, August 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Jack Delano
Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains
White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941
Reproduction from color slide
Taken by some of America's most celebrated photographers, the haunting images of a country emerging from the bitter poverty of the 1930s and preparing for the onset of the second world war have languished unseen for decades in the archives of the Library of Congress.
In 1935, at the height of the Depression, the US government dispatched photographers to rural and small-town America to capture the terrible living conditions and drum up support for the relief programmes.
Most of the project's 175,000 prints were shot in black and white, many of which were distributed to newspaper and magazines and became some of the most famous images of American history. But some of the same photographers who took the black and white prints - Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, John Vachon - also loaded new colour Kodachrome slide film into their cameras. "Colour photography was so new that they didn't really know how to use it," said Beverly Brannan, the library's curator of documentary photos. "So they were experimenting - should you take a close up or stand back and take a panorama? Should you use it indoors? But many of the photographers were trained as artists and it really shows in the way they focus the pictures to bring out the details."
· The exhibition, Bound for Glory: America in Colour, 1939-1943, is on display at Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington until January 21.
Marion Post Wolcott
African Americans fishing in
creek near cotton plantations
Belzoni, Mississippi, October 1939
Reproduction from color slide
Marion Post Wolcott
Boys fishing in a bayou
Schriever, Louisiana, June 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Marion Post Wolcott
Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative
Vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, August 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Jack Delano
Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains
White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941
Reproduction from color slide
Marion Post Wolcott
A store with live fish for sale
Vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, July 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Russell Lee
Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders
Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Russell Lee
Garden adjacent to the dugout home of Jack Whinery, homesteader
Pie Town, New Mexico, September 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Russell Lee
Hauling crates of peaches from the orchard to the shipping shed
Delta County, Colorado, September 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Russell Lee
Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers
Delta County, Colorado, 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Russell Lee
Distributing surplus commodities
St. Johns, Arizona, October 1940
Reproduction from color slide
John Vachon
African American boy
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942 or 1943
Jack Delano
Connecticut town on the sea
Stonington, Connecticut, November 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Jack Delano
Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise)
Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Jack Delano
Children in the tenement district
Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Marion Post Wolcott
African American's tenant's home beside the Mississippi River levee
Near Lake Providence, Louisiana, June 1940
Reproduction from color slide
Marion Post Wolcott
African American migratory workers by a "juke joint"
Belle Glade, Florida, February 1941
Reproduction from color slide
John Vachon
Worker at carbon black plant
Sunray, Texas, 1942
Reproduction from color slide
Alfred T. Palmer
M-4 tank crews of the United States
Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 1942
Reproduction from color slide
Jack Delano
Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, Chicago and Northwest Railway Company
Clinton, Iowa, April 1943
Reproduction from color slide
Jack Delano
Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company
Chicago, Illinois, April 1943
Reproduction from color slide
Alfred T. Palmer
Woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber Tennessee, February 1943
Reproduction from color slide
Jack Delano
A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company's Proviso yard
Chicago, Illinois, December 1942
Reproduction from color slide
Jack Delano
View in a departure yard at Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company's Proviso yard at twilight
Chicago, Illinois, December 1942
Reproduction from color slide
Alfred T. Palmer
Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation
Kansas City, Kansas, October 1942
Reproduction from color slide
