The Great San Francisco Earthquake.The Great San Francisco Earthquake San Francisco earthquake disaster claiming many lives and most of city (1906). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 443–444] See : Disaster F. Murray Abraham Fahrid Murray Abraham[1] (born October 24 1939) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. He became known during the 1980s, after winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Amadeus , narrator WGBH Boston Video c/o SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. Public Relations 148 Madison Avenue, 16th Floor PH-1 New York, NY 10016 159375471X $19.95 www.shop.wgbh.org As seen on public television, The Great San Francisco Earthquake is a documentary DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. of the terrible earthquake that struck California in 1906, a titanic 8.3 on the Richter scale, causing the worst catastrophe suffered by a North American city in the twentieth century. The quake itself, and the subsequent firestorms that virtually destroyed western America's largest metropolis of the era, are remembered in newly restored movie footage from the period and personal accounts of eyewitnesses. Narrated by Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, The Great San Francisco Earthquake captures the havoc of a century-old tragedy and the resilience of the survivors' collective spirit. 1 hour, closed-captions. |
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