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 | At 0:18AM local time here in Denmark worlds largest cruise ship MS Oasis of the Seas passed the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark after it left STX Europe, Shipbuilding in Turku, Finland the day before yesterday.
It's maiden voyage from Miami should be on december 1st. 2009.
It was a tough job for the captain to bring it through the bridge. The ship is 72 m (236 ft) hig... |  | 11/01/2009 | 819 | 
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 | Philip Garrido kindapped Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 in 1991 when she was snatched from her school bus stop, was locked away from the outside world behind a series of fences, sheds and tents in the back of a suburban home for 18 years at 1554 Walnut Ave., Antioch. CA |  | 08/29/2009 | 286 |
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 | Early saturday morning (18th. july 2009) around 4:40 local time a mud slide took place in the village of Nachterstedt (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany), at the Lake Concordia after heavy rain. 2½ houses slided down. 3 peple are missing.
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 | Neda Salehi Agha-Soltan (born 1982, died June 20, 2009) was an Iranian woman whose death by gunfire, during the 2009 Iranian election protests, was captured on video by bystanders. The graphic videos were posted on the Internet, and her name quickly became a rallying cry for the opposition. Neda means "voice" or "calling" or "Divine message" in Persian, and she has been referred to as the "voic... | | 06/26/2009 | 1,004 |
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 | At least 16 people, including five children were killed when an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale destroyed hundreds of homes in central Italy early this morning.
Another 30 people are missing after the earthquake struck at 3.32 am (0132 GMT) near l'Aquila in the mountainous region of Abruzzo 60 miles (95 kilometres) north of Rome.
Dawn revealed a sce... |  | 04/06/2009 | 2,410 |
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 | This is the American Civic Association building in Binghamton, New York, the sight of a massacre resulting in the deaths of 13 people and the gunman on April 3, 2009. |  | 04/04/2009 | 810 |
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 | On 3 March 2009 the building of the Stadtarchiv in Cologne collapsed.
2 people died and thousands of historical documents disappeared forever. |  | 03/15/2009 | 2,181 |
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 | This is where Octomom (Nadya Suleman) is moving to in La Habra, CA. Thirteen pictures included in the article to verify this as being accurate.
Article: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/home-reported-suleman-2329732-tmz-mother | | 03/13/2009 | 188 |
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 | This is where Octomom (Nadya Suleman) is currently living, at her mom's house in Whittier, CA. |  | 03/06/2009 | 157 |
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 | Here's a nice find from OrbitingFrog.com, showing the pathes of the debris from the collision of Iridium 33 and Cosmos-2251 (2009/02/10). Enjoy! | | 02/27/2009 | 1,102 |
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 | Flight TK-1591 crash near Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Holland
TC-JGE a Boeing 737-800 crashed at approximately 10:40 CET [09:40 GMT]. It was travelling from Istanbul to Amsterdam with 127 passengers and 7 crew on board. 9 falalites and at least 50 injured, 25 of which are said to be serious. Weather 10:55 local: Wind 200 degrees, 10 kts, visibility 4500m in mist, broken clouds 700 f, ov... | | 02/26/2009 | 1,164 |
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 | This is where Flight 3407 crashed outside of Buffalo, New York. For more information, go to:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/02/13/plane.crash.new.york/ | | 02/14/2009 | 1,911 |
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 | On February 9, 2009, Mustafa Mustafa became involved in a police pursuit after police attempted to arrest him for assault with a deadly weapon on his girlfriend. This was the second of two televised car chases in the L.A. area on this day and was broadcast on almost every local TV station due to the expensiveness of the Bentley. One of the TV stations repeatedly stated this model car in particu... | | 02/14/2009 | 312 |
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 | Swiss police found a plantation of approx. 1600 Cannabis plants in the canton of Thurgau with the help of Google Earth.
Source: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Schweizer-Polizei-entdeckt-Cannabis-Feld-via-Google-Earth--/meldung/126651
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2009/01/marijuana_field_found.html
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showf... | | 01/31/2009 | 22,944 |
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 | Los Angeles police found seven bodies -- 5 children and 2 adults -- in a Wilmington home on Tuesday morning. The bodies were found in a two-story home on the 1000 block of MacFarland Avenue shortly before 9 a.m. The case is being investigated as a murder-suicide, but police are exploring all possibilities. Police say they believe the father was distraught over ongoing job problems, and killed h... |  | 01/27/2009 | 1,004 |
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 | GeoEye made sure to have a satellite over Washington DC today close to the time of the inauguration of President Obama. The flyover occurred at 1119 ET (about 45 minutes before the oath-taking). I first saw the image on CNN while watching the parade in front of the White House. I was a little worried about the prospects of this shot because there was some high cirrus clouds over DC today. But, ... | | 01/21/2009 | 2,568 |
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 | Early indications are that US Airways Flight 1549 took a bird strike in each engine and the pilot safely "landed" the plane on the Hudson River.
150 passengers, 5 crew - no fatalities or even serious injuries. | | 01/15/2009 | 2,299 |
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 | In austria you can acquire luxurious real estate with participating at a delimited tombola. It costs only about 100€ and you can win a luxurious house. Very interesting idea. In the following link you can find some of this property.
Note from admin: In german only.
| | 01/10/2009 | 125 |
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 | A 66in (168cm) water main broke about 0800 local time (1300 GMT) at River Road and Fenway Drive in Bethesda, Md., near the Congressional Country Club.
15 people were rescued by helicopters and boats | | 12/24/2008 | 293 |
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 | This is an long overdue update to the 2006 edition of the GE Meta Atlas. I plan to acquire and ISSN number for the Meta Atlas and update i yearly to reflect political changes or provide new sources. The GE Meta Atlas 2 brings together and updates an extensive collection of quality resources for each sovereign nation. Territories, protectorates and other non-sovereign locations are for the most ... | | 10/07/2008 | 1,368 |
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 | The 2008 Biennale of Sydney, which closed early Sep08, included a number of on-line art works. One of them, 'A Proposal Concerning' by New Zealand collective et al., uses Google Earth. The site is still active - the link is www.etalonline.com (note that certain browsers, eg. chrome, seem mildly concerned with the script on the intro page, although do work). The attached kml will allow you to vi... | | 09/13/2008 | 523 |
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 | This the venue for Cisco Networkers 2008. Also held here the previous year. | | 09/05/2008 | 131 |
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 | All I could find about Georgia to-date;provinces, capitals, Tbilisi in details, Georgian military and ops; additions welcomed |  | 08/15/2008 | 13,740 |
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 | Anyone interested in viewing a map of the current months motorcycle events and rallies in the USA may want to check this out. The file is updated weekly so you'll want to link to it rather than save it. We also provide the entire years rallies by state on our website www.weaselsspfld.com. | | 05/01/2008 | 245 |
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 | Centralia is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005 and 9 in 2007, as a result of a 46-year-old mine fire burning beneath the borough. | | 02/29/2008 | 1,091 |
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