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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 | 797 | 
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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 | 425 |
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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 | 654 |
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 | An updated image from NASA, showing the extensive flooding in Myanmar. | | 05/07/2008 | 1,378 |
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 | Image overlay of the cyclone that devastated Myanmar on May 1, 2008. |  | 05/05/2008 | 2,631 |
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At least five people are feared dead after their small executive plane nosedived into a home in Kent.
There are further fears for residents who may have been inside nearby houses at the time of the crash.
An eyewitness described seeing a "big ball of fire" and plumes of smoke rising from the scene.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30... | | 03/30/2008 | 1,141 |
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 | The owner of this hous in Aalborg, Denmark, began yesterday renovating his house he had let out.
He began with the basement by increasing the hight but forgot to support the house. The result was the house began yesterday evening to slide towards the road and the facade cracked.
This morning the house was demolished and all the household effects had to be left ins... | | 03/20/2008 | 235 |
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 | a general information (english and german)for the football europe championship 2008 in austria and switzerland:
TICKET SERVICE
STADIUMS - DATES OF MATCHES
TEAM ACCOMODATIONS AND TRAININGSCAMPS
FAN ZONES - PUBLIC VIEWING
FAN CAMPS
ACCOMODATIONS (only austria)
have much fun with planning your EM week | | 02/24/2008 | 266 |
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 | Alon USA Big Spring Refinery
There was a large explosion here on February 18, 2008, injuring four people but thankfully killing none. | | 02/18/2008 | 377 |
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 | These are overlays of tornado damage in Arkansas caused on Feb. 5, 2008. |  | 02/18/2008 | 538 |
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 | Where 24 year old Meredith Emerson and her dog went missing on January 1, 2008. | | 01/03/2008 | 480 |
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 | This collection contains a wide variety of data for the California wildfires of October/November 2007. | | 12/21/2007 | 115 |
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 | You cann see the fans all over downtown Leipzig in their orange shirts.
There were fan parties at the Burgplatz and Augustusplatz. | | 12/18/2007 | 534 |
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 | A large explosion has ripped through a fireworks factory near the Australian city of Sydney, damaging nearby houses.
No injuries have been reported, but 10 homes have been evacuated in a one-kilometre exclusion zone around the Howard and Sons plant at Wallerawang.
The blast could have been caused by an intruder, a police spokesman said.
New Year's Eve fir... | | 12/09/2007 | 493 |
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 | The Bundesgartenschau (abbr. BUGA) is the biannual Federal horticulture show in Germany. It also covers topics like landscaping. Taking place in different cities, the location changes in a two-year cycle. The next BUGA is arranged by the two cities Gera and Ronneburg from April 27th to October 14th, 2007.
With a high budget, extensive landscape architectures and gardenings are re... | | 11/20/2007 | 142 |
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 | On November 12th a big fire destroyed this hall at Hackney Bus Garage in Stratford. It's an industrial area east of London. The column of smoke was visible over many kilometres.
Hackney Bus Garage is located next to Olympia 2012 terrain and the recently opened Stratford Eurostar Terminal. | | 11/15/2007 | 390 |
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 | This is the high school in Jokela where a 18 year old student killed 8 people, the head master and 7 students, on november 7th. at 11:40 Finland time. Then he shot himself in the head and died later that evening.
He had made a video of himself and placed it on YouTube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokela_school_shooting | | 11/08/2007 | 815 |
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 | Source: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_La_Jolla/2007297/AERONET_La_Jolla.2007297.aqua.250m.jpg |  | 10/25/2007 | 474 |
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 | The Cannstatter Wasen is the main event like the Oktoberfest in Munich and took place from sept 28th. to october 14th. 2007. Here you see the preparations for it.
You can see the beer tents, the ferris wheel and the roller coaster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannstatter_Wasen |  | 10/24/2007 | 255 |
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 | Cource of Overlay: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/AERONET_La_Jolla/2007296/AERONET_La_Jolla.2007296.terra.250m.jpg | | 10/24/2007 | 756 |
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 | NASA satellite shot overlay. Shows general fire locations surrounding Oxnard, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego.
Lower image opacity and zoom in to see if the fires are near anybody you know. | | 10/23/2007 | 1,077 |
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 | Sidoarjo mud flow, Indonesia. Check wikipedia for detail description. | | 10/17/2007 | 511 |
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 | News Story from 10/4/07: sink hole appears in road in La Jolla, CA (near San Diego). Houses are evacuated.
File has links to CNN & Foxnews articles. | | 10/05/2007 | 734 |
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 | June and July 2007 brought drenching rain and devastating floods to England. One of the hardest hit regions was Gloucestershire, in southwest England. The floods started in late June and continued throughout July.
Though water levels had receded, floods were still evident along the Severn River when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) captur... | | 08/29/2007 | 202 |
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 | The death toll from fierce forest fires in Greece has risen to 63, as dozens of fires continued today to burn out of control, officials said.
On Sunday, they continued to consume homes and threatened the ruins where the Olympic Games were first played. The government had warned that little progress was made on Sunday in putting out the 44 separate fires, which continued to rage ... | | 08/27/2007 | 2,243 |
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