The Oblation Run ( sometimes referred to as the Ritual Dance of the Brave ) is an annual event held by the University of the Philippines ( UP ) chapters of Alpha Phi Omega ( APO ) in the different UP campuses .

Piper Alpha was an oil production platform in the North Sea approximately north-east of Aberdeen , Scotland , that was operated Being_in_operation by Occidental Petroleum ( Caledonia ) Limited .

An explosion and resulting oil and gas fires destroyed Destroying Piper Alpha on 6 July 1988 , killing Killing 167 people , including two crewmen of a rescue vessel ; 61 workers escaped Escaping and survived .

Alpha dumped torrential rain Motion on the island of Hispaniola , making it Causation the eighth wettest storm Catastrophe to impact poverty-stricken Haiti .

In the fictional `` Star Trek '' universe , the Dominion War is a conflict Hostile_encounter between the forces of the Dominion , Cardassian Union and , later , the Breen Confederacy against the Alpha Quadrant alliance of the United Federation of Planets , the Klingon Empire and , later , the Romulan Star Empire .