Notes :
storey (story)（建物の）階;
to be exact 厳密に言えば;
sect（宗教上の）分派，宗派;
orphan 孤児;
pluck（羽毛など）を引き抜く，むしり取る;
lb ポンド《重量の単位》（約454ｇ);
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Ziona Chana 67 is no ordinary man. He lives in South India in a four-storey house with his family. But this is not your ordinary family – it is the largest family in the world – 181 members to be exact. Ziona belongs to a sect which allows men to have multiple wives. He now has 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandkids! The house has 100 rooms and is run like a military camp. According to Ziona he is the luckiest man in the whole world. His reason for getting married was so he could look after poor and orphaned village women. One meal can see them pluck 30 chickens, peel 132lb of potatoes and boil up to 220lb of rice – and that’s just dinner!　(by Prof. Simon Smith)
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Notes :
strike ～を襲う;
prediction 予言;
devastation 荒らすこと，荒廃（状態）;
day off 休日;
city［the city 集合的に］その市の（全）市民，住民;

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In 1923 Raffaele Bendandi predicted that on January 2, 1924, a major earthquake would strike Italy. He was wrong – by two days. It struck on January 4, killing 30,000 people.
Bendandi died in 1979 leaving many other predictions. One such prediction was for the 11th of May 2011, in Italy, in which he predicted total devastation. Because of this many Italians took a day off. On that day, however, no earthquake occurred and the city slept peacefully. In Spain on the same day however an earthquake hit a small town killing 9 people – it was the worst earthquake in forty years. (by Prof. Simon Smith)
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