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Fouquieres-les-Lens, FRANCE: Former miners attend a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the Courrieres mining disater 10 March 2006, in Fouquieres les Bains. 1099 miners died 10 March 1906 in France's worst ever mining disaster.AFP PHOTO FRANCOIS LO PRESTI (Photo credit should read FRANCOIS LO PRESTI/AFP via Getty Images)
1906: Full-length view of pedestrians walking past collapsed buildings on the corner of Market and Ellis Streets, several weeks after the Earthquake of April 18th in San Francisco, California. A cyclist wears a Red Cross armband. (Photo by Historic Photo Archive/Getty Images)
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