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Items that were once in our Current Events category. |
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 | The Dunblane school massacre was a multiple murder-suicide which occurred at Dunblane Primary School in the Scottish town of Dunblane on 13 March 1996. Sixteen children and one adult were killed by the attacker, Thomas Watt Hamilton, before he committed suicide. It remains the deadliest single targeted mass murder of children in the history of the United Kingdom.
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 | Saint-Jean-Vianney was a village in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, which was partially destroyed in a landslide on May 4, 1971.
Located near the shore of the Saguenay River, Saint-Jean-Vianney was — unbeknownst to residents at the time — built atop a bed of unstable Leda clay, a type of subsoil which can liquify under stress.
Following unusually heav... | | 09/30/2009 | 22 |
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 | On Thursday, August 13, 2009, Joe Moshe drove onto the property of a federal building in the Westwood part of Los Angeles while being pursued by police. There began a nine-hour stand-off between him and various law enforcement agencies, including the secret service. Despite the fact that law enforcement fired four cannisters of tear gas into the vehicle during the stand-off, Moshe did not exit ... | | 08/15/2009 | 50 |
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 | On Saturday, April 16, 1960, at about 11:50 p.m., while on tour in the United Kingdom, 21-year-old Cochran died in a traffic accident in a taxi (a Ford Consul, not, as widely quoted, a London Hackney carriage) traveling through Chippenham, Wiltshire, England on the A4. The taxi crashed into a lamp post on Rowden Hill, where a plaque now commemorates the event (no other car was involved). Cochra... | | 08/13/2009 | 179 |
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 | The Selby rail crash was a high-speed train accident that occurred at Great Heck near Selby, North Yorkshire, England on the morning of 28 February 2001. Six passengers and four railway staff were killed and 82 people suffered serious injuries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selby_rail_crash | | 07/21/2009 | 732 |
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 | In April and May of 1991, two consecutive rockslides occurred from a cliff above the town of Randa in the Matter valley of Switzerland. The rockslides released a cumulative volume of approximately 30 million cubic meters of debris, with each of the rockslide stages occurring over several hours. Slide debris buried key regional transportation lines including the road and railway leading to Zerma... | | 07/21/2009 | 50 |
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 | The small town of Mars Bluff was the place where in 1958 a B-47 Stratojet accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb - fortunately without the removable core. 7,600 pounds of conventional explosives created a 75 feet wide crater. Some people from the family living in a nearby farm house were injured from the explosion, nobody was killed.
Awkward thing, especially for some Air Force guys... | | 07/01/2009 | 237 |
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 | This is the street corner where the tragic murder of teenage Ben Kinsella took place....... PLEASE NO MORE
Check streetveiw at this point... there are still tributes being left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Kinsella | | 06/19/2009 | 102 |
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 | GeoEye imagery of the Italy Earthquake.
ADMIN NOTE: You have to zoom very close to see it. The image is very dark. | | 04/17/2009 | 2,305 |
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 | In the summer of 1995 an iceberg broke in two pieces and it rolled round. The result was a huge tsunami rolling towards the city of Uummannaq.
In the bay of Uummannaq local fishermen and hunters had their boats an on a small island a hunter had his dogs chained. A few days before a local plumber had recieved a load of iron pipes they were placed on a barge in the bay.
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 | this is a pic of the marsh in south louisiana, on fire | | 02/24/2009 | 160 |
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 | The Los Angeles riots of 1992, also known as the Rodney King uprising or the Rodney King riots, were sparked on April 29, 1992 when a jury acquitted four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King following a high-speed pursuit. Thousands of people in the Los Angeles area rioted over the six days following the verdict. Widespread looting, assault, arson, and... |  | 12/22/2008 | 614 |
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 | This is a comprehensive file containing a lot of information regarding the fires currently happening in Southern California. | | 11/17/2008 | 393 |
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 | In the days since Hurricane Gustav first appeared on the radar (swiftly followed by several other storms), a team of Googlers has been gathering information we hope will be useful to residents of the affected regions and the relief agencies working to help them.
Imagery from NOAA
After Hurricane Gustav passed on Tuesday, NOAA's Remote Sensing Division began flying ... | | 09/18/2008 | 237 |
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 | Three days after Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, Texas as a Category 2 hurricane, severe flooding has challenged Gulf Coast residents from Texas to Louisiana. A team at Google has been gathering information we hope will be useful to residents of the affected regions and the relief agencies working to help them.
Imagery from NOAA
After Hurricane Ike came ashor... | | 09/18/2008 | 688 |
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 | Millionaire Christopher Foster lived here
The manison burnt down on 26 August 2008
Investigations by police have found that the horses and dogs
had been shot prior to the fire
Also, his wife's (Jill) remains have been found in the building, she had been shot in the head before the fire.
The body of an adult male has also been recovered.
The expensive c... | | 08/31/2008 | 980 |
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 | Various models and plots for the forecasted path of Hurricane Gustav. | | 08/29/2008 | 1,602 |
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 | Various models and plots for the forecasted path of Tropical Storm Hanna. | | 08/29/2008 | 542 |
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 | On May 3, 2003, a group of intense supercell thunderstorms spawned multiple tornados that swept across Oklahoma and nearby states. One of the tornados touched down in the town of Moore, just south of Oklahoma City. The path of the tornado is visible in this high-resolution satellite image, acquired by the IKONOS satellite on May 10, 2003. In the center of the tornado’s swath homes were totally ... |  | 08/13/2008 | 1,166 |
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 | This is the epicenter of the 5.4 earthquake in southern California on July 29, 2008. | | 07/29/2008 | 203 |
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 | Fire crews are tackling a blaze at the Grand Pier in the Somerset seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare. | | 07/28/2008 | 353 |
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 | Launched on 19/2/86, Mir, the Russian space station orbited Earth until 23/3/2001, when it was de-orbited and crashed successfully into the Pacific Ocean. More info available at Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir |  | 06/11/2008 | 579 |
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 | Located 20 km east of the epicenter of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, at the junction of Dujiangyan City and Wenchuan County on the upper Minjiang River the Zipingpu Hydropower Plant was brought into service in 2006. | | 05/15/2008 | 949 |
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 | An updated image from NASA, showing the extensive flooding in Myanmar. |  | 05/07/2008 | 1,633 |
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 | Image overlay of the cyclone that devastated Myanmar on May 1, 2008. |  | 05/05/2008 | 3,100 |
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