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"Meet Vera Johnson, the uncommonly resourceful fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco's most legendary bordello and ally to the city's corrupt politicians. Vera has grown up straddling two worlds--the madam's alluring sphere, replete with tickets to the opera, surly henchmen, and scant morality, and the violent, debt ridden domestic life of the family paid to raise her. On the morning of the great quake,...
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2010.
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English
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"Take a journey into the New Madrid Seismic Zone and learn of the extraordinary power unleashed by the 1811-1812 earthquakes. Hear the stories from people who have grown up knowing what might happen without warning. Explore the region and see how the earthquakes of the past have changed the landscape forever. Come to understand how a major earthquake today could affect far more than just midwestern fields and farms. [This film] examines one of the...
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2019.
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English
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"In January 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people and paralyzing the country. Catherine Porter, a newly minted international reporter, was one of the first journalists on the ground in the earthquake's aftermath. Moments after she arrived in Haiti, Catherine found her first story. A ragtag group of volunteers told her about a "miracle child"--A three-year-old girl who had survived six days under the rubble...
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