“A continent called Atlantis, lost in a tragic cataclysm more than 11,000 years ago, once existed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.”

“An old-fashioned regicidal attentat triggered a political cataclysm that became the Great War.”

“The recollections of an ancient flood could perhaps be localized to a memory of an ancient cataclysm along the Atlantic coast.”

“Some people derived a great deal of excitement from predictions of the cataclysms that would herald the end times.”

“Many have noticed that poorer nations are more severely affected by natural cataclysms than developed nations.”

“In spite of these cataclysms, being a peripatetic of fortune had not diminished his craving for knowledge and science.”