21 illustrations referencing Nahum
In September 1940, the German Luftwaffe dropped incendiary bombs across London for fifty-seven consecutive nights. Margaret Braithwaite, a schoolteacher on Albion Road in Lewisham, described...
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Corrie ten Boom and her family built a secret room behind a false wall in their Haarlem home....
When Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, Texas, in September 2008, the storm surge swallowed entire neighborhoods. Streets became rivers. Homes folded like cardboard. In the...
On any coral reef from the Red Sea to the shallow waters off Papua New Guinea, the sea anemone is a quiet killer. Its tentacles...
In the winter of 1942, a Jewish woman knocked on the door of the presbytery in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains of...
When Hurricane Harvey stalled over Houston in August 2017, dumping more than fifty inches of rain in four days, Adrienne Davis watched the water rise...
In 1869, John Wesley Powell strapped himself to a wooden chair bolted to the deck of a small boat and led nine men into the...
In September 1940, German bombers pounded London for fifty-seven consecutive nights. Margaret Hutchinson, a schoolteacher in Bermondsey, led her fourteen students each evening into the...
Hurricane hunters with NOAA's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron fly directly into the most violent weather on earth. Their WP-3D Orion turboprops punch through walls of...
When the tornado sirens screamed across Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, Mark Anderson grabbed his two daughters and ran for the cellar beneath his...
When Hurricane Ike barreled toward Galveston, Texas in September 2008, most residents evacuated. But Jim and Elaine Maddox, an elderly couple on 53rd Street, couldn't...
In February 1945, the Weihsien internment camp in northern China was a place of dust, disease, and dwindling rations. Eighteen hundred civilians — missionaries, teachers,...
Sarah Whitfield was four miles above treeline on Franconia Ridge in New Hampshire's White Mountains when the sky split open. No warning — just a...
In the winter of 1944, Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsey were transferred to Barracks 28 at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The straw bedding crawled...
In the summer of 2015, a brutal heat wave settled over Oregon's John Day River basin. Water temperatures climbed past 75 degrees Fahrenheit — lethal...
On coral reefs across the Indo-Pacific, the sea anemone is a terror. Its tentacles carry nematocysts — microscopic harpoons loaded with venom — that paralyze...
On the evening of October 8, 1871, while the nation's attention would later fix on the Great Chicago Fire, something far deadlier swept through Peshtigo,...
When the Nazis occupied Holland in 1940, watchmaker Casper ten Boom and his daughter Corrie made a quiet, dangerous decision. They built a hidden room...
Margaret Holloway kept her porch light on during every storm. Her grandchildren knew this. When thunder cracked over their neighborhood in Joplin, Missouri, and the...
In 1812, engineer John Rennie began constructing a massive breakwater across Plymouth Sound in southwest England. For centuries, ships anchoring in that harbor had been...
On May 20, 2013, an EF5 tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, with winds topping 210 miles per hour. It leveled schools, shredded homes to their...