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1. truewestmagazine.com › article › fact-vs-fiction-theFact Vs. Fiction: The Truth about the Calamitous Martha Jane ...

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   Jun 20, 2018 · Here now, thanks to authors Dick Etulain and the late David McLaird, are the true facts about the Calamitous Martha Jane. Martha was born in the spring of 1856 or near Princeton, Missouri. In 1864 the family moved to Montana.

2. www.modernreformation.org › resources › articlesThe Meaning of Calamity - Modern Reformation

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   Jun 4, 2020 · Real Meaning of Calamity: Perish Or Else… Jesus offers the real meaning of calamity twice in Luke 13: 3 and 5, emphasizing the point by repeating it virtually verbatim, “No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. …

3. www.nationalgeographic.com › history › articleWho was the real Calamity Jane? Historians search for an answer.

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   Mar 12, 2024 · Calamity Jane—born Martha Jane Canary—is a legend of the American West. But was she a gunslinger? An Army scout? A rider for the Pony Express? After a century of half-truths and...

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   Sep 11, 2015 · Disaster: an unfortunate event causing destruction. Catastrophe: sudden high-intensity disaster. Calamity: disaster with long-lasting effects.

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   Nov 19, 2015 · Catastrophe thus originated as a precise term in literary criticism; 'disaster' is just a transferred meaning. My classics teacher insisted that a catastrophe has to be unexpected; so an England batting collapse can be calamitous but not catastrophic.

6. www.oed.com › dictionary › calamitous_adjcalamitous, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford ...

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   There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective calamitous, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   What is a calamity?

   • Yet such an event, if not a calamity to the race, will always involve much individual disaster and misfortune. Pestilence is a calamity; a defeat in battle, a shipwreck, or a failure in business is a disaster; sickness or loss of property is a misfortune; failure to meet a friend is a mischance; the breaking of a teacup is a mishap.

   What is the difference between 'disaster', 'catastrophe', and 'calamity'?

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   What is the difference between a disaster and a calamity?

   • Disaster: an unfortunate event causing destruction. Catastrophe: sudden high-intensity disaster. Calamity: disaster with long-lasting effects. You must log in to answer this question.

   What is the difference between 'disaster', 'catastrophe', and 'calamity'?

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   Is Calamity a tense?

   • I think the word calamity puts more emphasis on emotional impact on people (e.g. grief) than catastrophe does. Just a note, calamity seems to always by used in the future/present tense. ie "to prevent a calamity" or "this is a calamity" but (as mikhailcazi might have inadvertently pointed out) never in the past tense ie. "it was a calamity".

   Calamity vs Catastrophe - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

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   Where does calamity come from?

   • Early etymologists associated it with calamus "straw" (see shawm); but it is perhaps from a lost root preserved in incolumis "uninjured," from PIE *kle-mo-, from base *kel- "to strike, cut" (see hilt). I think the word calamity puts more emphasis on emotional impact on people (e.g. grief) than catastrophe does.

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   Was Calamity a scout?

   • In her semifictional 1896 autobiography Life and Adventures of Calamity, Calamity also described herself as a rowdy plainswoman who rode for the Pony Express and served as General Custer’s scout. (Why the short-lived Pony Express still fascinates us.)

   Who was the real Calamity Jane? Historians search for an answer

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   When was calamitous first used?

   • The earliest known use of the adjective calamitous is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for calamitous is from 1545, in the writing of George Joye, evangelical author. calamitous is a borrowing from French. Etymons: French calamiteux.

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8. www.reddit.com › r › NaturewasmetalCalamites, huge tree-sized horsetails from the Carboniferous

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   Looks just like the calamites in the image except small. More like the height of a meadow grass - 2 to 3 feet. Grows in dense clusters. Used in landscaping because it has a lot of visual interest. Apparently someone thought it resembled a horses tail - hence the common name