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    frelste i Courrières" [13 living miners saved in Courrières]. Politiken (in Danish). Levy, Louis (1906-04-05). "Endnu et "levende Lig" i Courrières" [Another...
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  • List of accidents and disasters by death toll (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    incidents, often the result of prolonged or lingering effects of the initial catastrophe. This was the case particularly in such cases as exposure to contaminated...
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    concern in the mining business, especially in underground mining. The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst mining accident, involved the death of 1...
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  • City Mine explosion (Alabama), 112 killed. March 10, 1906: Courrières mine disaster in Courrières, France. 1,099 workers died in the worst mine accident in...
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    States. 74 people died, including 6 children. March 10, 1906: Courrières mine disaster, Courrières, France. 1,099 people died, including children, in the worst...
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    Wars and the Nazi occupation, and suffered multiple mining catastrophes including the Courrières mine disaster, the worst in European history, and a 1974...
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    wanted Marguerite to be acquitted. A murder conviction would have been catastrophic for the Crown." In 2013, the UK Channel 4 aired the documentary Edward...
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  • Company. pp. 285–87. Ewans, Martin (2002). European Atrocity, African Catastrophe: Leopold II, the Congo Free State and Its Aftermath. London: RoutledgeCurzon...
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    Liévin (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    miners were in daily peril of being lost in mining catastrophes. There were five major mining catastrophes during the coal mining period: 28 November 1861...
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  • workers), but major disaster was always a threat. 1099 men died in the Courrières mine disaster of 1906. The campaign for mine safety enabled miners to...
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