He did this by the charming practice of buying up used electric blankets for $5 to $10 from survivors of patients who had died, reconditioning them, and selling them at $185 each.

* 1912 – The Cunard liner brings 705 survivors from the to New York City.

The manuscripts from the Western text-type ( as represented by the Codex Bezae ) and the Alexandrian text-type ( as represented by the Codex Sinaiticus ) are the earliest survivors.

The only survivors of the vicinal / buurtspoor system are the Kusttram ( covering almost the entire coast from France to the Netherlands, being the longest tram line in the world ) and some sections of the Charleroi Pre-metro.

In verse eighteen, it says that once judgment has been carried out, “ There will be no survivors from the house of Esau ” ( NIV ).

Its masts protruded from the water as survivors scrambled into boats and rowed for the shore.

During the lull, Nelson gave orders that boats be sent to pull survivors from the water around the remains of Orient.

However the dismasted Tonnant, Commodore Du Petit Thouars now dead from his wounds and thrown overboard at his own request, was unable to make the required speed and was driven ashore by its crew, while Timoléon was too far south to escape with Villeneuve and in attempting to join the survivors had also grounded on the shoal.

The Tonnant, its decks crowded with 1, 600 survivors from other French vessels, surrendered as the British ships approached while Timoléon was set on fire by her remaining crew who then escaped to the shore in small boats.

For them this was no time to cease firing, even as the survivors of the crew appeared on the outer casing, struggling out of their clothes to swim away from her.

In Herbert's report to the Admiralty, he stated he feared the survivors from the U-boat's crew would board the freighter and scuttle her, so he ordered the Royal Marines on his ship to shoot the survivors.

The statements said that five survivors from U-27 managed to board Nicosian, while the rest were shot and killed on Herbert's orders while clinging to the merchant vessel's lifeboat falls.

The city of Ragusa was founded by such survivors from Epidaurum.

* World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War ( 2006 ) by Max Brooks is a series of interviews from various survivors of a zombie apocalypse.

Both Barnard and the survivors from the Isabella had harboured concern the other party was Spanish and were relieved to discover their respective nationalities.

Shortly thereafter the Nanina encountered the British ship Nancy under Lt D ' Aranda who had sailed from the River Plate in order to rescue the survivors of the Isabella.

Immediately after the crash, Max, one of the plane's few survivors, rents a car and drives from the crash site in Bakersfield to Los Angeles, stopping on the way to see his old high school sweetheart, Alison ( Debra Monk ), whom he hadn't visited in 20 years.

In 2007, a plaque was placed atop the bridge to mark the efforts of railway workers who assisted in rescuing survivors from the train.

His publication and design of the classic audio-visual magazines Cinquième Saison and OU between 1958 and 1974, each issue containing recordings as well as texts, images, screenprints and multiples, brought together international contemporary writers and artists such as members of Lettrisme and Fluxus, Jiri Kolar, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Phillips, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs and many others, as well as bringing the work of survivors from earlier generations such as Raoul Hausmann and Marcel Janco to a fresh audience.

* Chapter 3: The Double Shakedown-in this chapter, Finkelstein claims that the number of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust recognized by relief groups increased from c. 100, 000 in 1945 to nearly 1 million owing to definitional changes in who was considered to be a survivor.

The Samaritans claim to be descended from survivors of the Assyrian conquest.

Across Europe Bricha (" flight "), an organization of former partisans and ghetto fighters, smuggled Jewish holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe to Italy, where small boats tried to breach the British blockade of Palestine.

* 1913 – Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge ; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.

According to Gildas, Ambrosius organised the survivors into an armed force and achieved the first military victory over the Saxon invaders.

Darwin related this to the struggle for existence among wildlife and botanist de Candolle's " warring of the species " in plants ; he immediately envisioned " a force like a hundred thousand wedges " pushing well-adapted variations into " gaps in the economy of nature ", so that the survivors would pass on their form and abilities, and unfavourable variations would be destroyed.

Munuza, learning of the defeat, organized another force, and gathered what was left of the survivors of Covadonga.

The last such instance was very near the end of the series, when the survivors of a previous IMF operation ( Season Six's " Casino ") recognized a vacationing Phelps from security camera photos and kidnapped him to force his team to retrieve evidence that a plea-bargaining mobster is about to turn over to authorities.

At his home, Morbius explains that an unknown " planetary force " killed nearly everyone else and then vaporized their starship as the survivors tried to leave the planet.

That battle was a major Athenian victory ; after the battle, the generals in charge took the majority of their ships to attack the Peloponnesian fleet blockading Conon, leaving behind a force under Thrasybulus and his fellow trierarch Theramenes to rescue the survivors.

Accordingly, all eight generals, with the larger part of the fleet, set out for Mytilene, while a rescue force under Thrasybulus and Theramenes, both of whom were trierarchs in this battle but had served as generals in prior campaigns, remained behind to pick up the survivors and retrieve corpses for burial.

The right wing of Santa Anna's offensive, under General José de Urrea, then defeated, captured, and executed the survivors of a second force near Goliad.

Two survivors of this embassy were still alive around 1536, when they sent letters to Malacca and Goa detailing plans for how the Portuguese could capture Canton by force.

The new missile would be so accurate and carry so many warheads that even a few survivors would be able to destroy enormous numbers of any remaining Soviet force.

Cybertron sees a much smaller Decepticon force than the previous two series, and what has become of most of the survivors of the earlier series remains unknown.

Yang's defection earned him Mao's trust, but Yang's wife was not able to leave Zhang's force, and the couple did not reunite until 1936, after Zhang's force was decisively defeated by Kuomintang warlords, and the survivors fled back to Yan ' an.

Amatsukaze and Tokitsukaze rescued Ryūjōs survivors and the aircrews from her returning strike force, who ditched their aircraft in the ocean nearby.

After Rainbow defeats the eco-terrorists ' militia force and destroys their facility and supplies, Clark has the survivors stripped naked and left to die, taunting them to " reconnect with nature.

On the 11th of August 1904 a German armed force with artillery and machine guns which had encircled the Herero who had fled to the Waterberg in Namibia attacked and forced the survivors to flee to the Omaheke desert, where large numbers died.

The human survivors are forced to unite to face a new threat: a force of alien robots bent on exterminating the human race.

The Christian flanks were subsequently routed and the survivors retreated back to Hunyadi's main force.

Captain Gilbert C. Hoover, commanding officer of the and senior officer present in the battle-damaged US task force, was skeptical that anyone had survived the sinking of the Juneau and believed it would be reckless to look for survivors, thereby exposing his wounded ships to a still-lurking Japanese submarine.

The important nature of the operation also led to the force being doubled in order to duplicate it, to ensure that even if half of the force were killed, the survivors would have the necessary skills to complete the operation.

Meanwhile, as General William C. Westmoreland learned of the North Vietnamese attack on Lang Vei and Lownd ’ s refusal to send a relief force, he ordered the U. S. Marines to supply enough helicopters to airlift a 50-man strike force with the aim of rescuing the survivors.

Under the cover of U. S. air strikes, Willoughby and other American survivors ran towards the old Lang Vei Camp, where they were evacuated by U. S. Marines UH-1 Hueys under the protection of a 50-man reaction force.