The voice of the countryside. Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today.he voice of the countryside. Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today.
The 1970 Bhola cyclone was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on November 12, 1970.It was the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded, and one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern times.Up to 500,000 people lost their lives in the storm, primarily as a result of the storm surge that flooded much of the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta.t was the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded, and one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern times. Up to 500,000 people lost their lives in the storm, primarily as a result of the storm surge that flooded much of the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta.
The storm that would become Hurricane Gordon forms in the Gulf of Mexico east of Costa Rica on this day in 1994. Although it spent far more time as a tropical storm than as a hurricane, Gordon went on to kill as many as a thousand people in Central America, the Caribbean and South Florida. Immediately after forming over the western part of the Gulf of Mexico, the stormâs heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.