Based on Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, the surrealist musical follows one nuclear family across thousands of years and three apocalypses.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025
And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes.
To grade the 50 states and the District of Columbia on their relative natural disaster risks, five measures were developed that account for the frequency and damage of calamities, weighted against population and geographic size.
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Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
21 June 2026
In early times, most humans barely paid attention to weather calamities because the region was so sparsely populated.
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Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
Cheap financial capital has flooded into the industry, lowering the cost of protecting against disasters, but Bäte thinks the trend cannot continue forever.
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
3 July 2026
City leaders recognize the difficulty for families and communities dealing with vacant disasters.
The program provides temporary humanitarian relief to people from countries experiencing war, natural disasters or other catastrophes.
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Daniella Silva,
NBC news,
26 June 2026
Swiss Re reports total economic losses from natural catastrophes reached $220 billion in 2025 — with peak-loss scenarios projecting insured losses alone could reach $320 billion in 2026.
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