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Remember), Author Noel F. Busch addresses himself in detail to the cause of the lamp's swaying-and the fearful hours and days that followed it. It was "the beginning of the Kanto Daishinsai, or Great Kanto Earthquake Disaster, which was not only the most destructive earthquake ever recorded but also, in all probability, the most serious natural calamity in the long and frequently calamitous history of the human race." The earthquake and the succeeding tornado-whipped fires killed an estimated 140,000 persons in Tokyo and nearby Yokohama. The great fires; known historically as the "Flowers...