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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 | 218 | 
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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 | 2,288 |
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 | A motorcyclist has been shot dead while riding along the M40 in Warwickshire.
The man died between junctions 13 and 12 on the southbound carriageway near Leamington Spa on Sunday afternoon.
It is thought the victim had attended the Bulldog Bash, billed as Europe's top biker party, held at Long Marston airfield near Stratford.
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 | On 30th June 2007, two muslim doctors tried to drive their jeep into the main entrance of Glasgow, which had they been successful would resulted in the deaths of Innocent people. One of the terrorists later died from his burns, the second is being detained. Some say that this was an act of treason against fellow citizens, the punishment for this act is death by firing squad as in WWI & WWII |  | 08/12/2007 | 555 |
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 | Ten miners were in the middle of a 12-hour shift early Monday (Aug 6, 2007)morning when a mine shaft collapsed, trapping six of the men. The other four were able to escape and are now helping in rescue efforts. It's believed the six miners are trapped 1,500 feet underground, 2,000 feet from the nearest access and nearly 4 miles from where they entered the mine. | | 08/08/2007 | 2,107 |
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 | News related KMZ file of Pirbright Laboratories from where Britain's latest foot & mouth outbreak may have originated | | 08/07/2007 | 189 |
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 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6930684.stm
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 | Location of where I-35W collapsed into the Mississippi River on August 1, 2007.
Story on CNN | | 08/01/2007 | 1,609 |
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 | NEW YORK (AP) -- An underground steam pipe explosion tore through a Manhattan street near Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday, swallowing a tow truck and killing one person as hundreds of others ran for cover amid a towering geyser of steam and flying rubble. New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said the explosion was not terrorism. | | 07/18/2007 | 884 |
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 | SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- A plane carrying at least 150 people crashed into a gas station and burst into flames after landing at Sao Paulo's airport Tuesday, Brazil's airport authority said.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/07/18/brazil.plane.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText |  | 07/17/2007 | 2,108 |
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 | These are the locations for the Live Earth concert around the world on saturday 7th.
OFFICIAL CONCERTS AND SCHEDULE
OFFICIAL CONCERTS: Local start: USA start (EDT):
Live Earth New York........2:30pm........2:30pm
Live Earth London..........1:30pm........8:30pm
Live Earth Sydney.........11:10am........9:10pm (july 6th)
Live Earth... | | 07/06/2007 | 898 |
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 | All of these meandering streets on Homstead AFB are where military base housing once stood. It was all removed after Hurricane Andrew destroyed most of the base in August 1992. | | 06/23/2007 | 291 |
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 | This can be the carpet before or after the visit of Munich and Bavaria. | | 06/05/2007 | 409 |
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 | From june 6th to june 8th 2007 the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the 8 most important industrial countries in the World: USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Russia and Japan will have their annual summitt. This time in Germany at the Kempinski Hotel in Heiligendamm. Participate will also the chairman of the European Union, Barroso, and the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-Moon.
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 | A superoiltanker (224.000 tons)lies in front of the city of Arenzano, in the Italian Riviera. It sunk in 1991
Five persons of the crew died, and about 144,000 tons of heavy crude oil burnt. |  | 05/06/2007 | 603 |
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 | The location of the highway collapse in Oakland, CA after the tanker crash on April 29, 2007. | | 05/01/2007 | 539 |
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 | Locations of the Virginia Tech shootings that occured on April 16, 2007, including a campus map overlay. |  | 04/16/2007 | 1,660 |
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 | Formula One Seasons 2007 Tracks and Layouts | | 04/12/2007 | 2,345 |
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 | S.E. Fireworks, a company that stores fireworks articles, is located in the middle of the working class housing estate of Mekkelholt in the northern Dutch city of Enschede. On 13 May 2000, two explosions in a fireworks warehouse detonated an estimated 100 tonnes of explosives. The blast was felt up to 30 kilometers away. Within minutes the surrounding residential quarter was devasted. Some 400 ... | | 03/21/2007 | 553 |
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 | On november 3rd. 2004 one of the worst accidents in newer time hit this suburb (Seest) of Kolding when a an explosion happened on a firework factory on this ground.
Tho workers on the factory were unloading a 40 foot container with fireworks when they dropped a box full of rockets. The rockets exploded and the fire rapidly moved to the rest of the fireworks in the container and a... |  | 03/18/2007 | 442 |
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 | Lest we forget, these refridgerated trailers have been in place since 9/11/01. They are located at the Office of the Medical Examiner and can be found on East 30th Street between Bellview Hospital and the NYU medical Center. They are not accessable to the general public. These unidentified remains will be relocated to the Ground Zero Memorial upon it's completion. Never Forget!
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 | The 8 Stadiums of the 2008 European Football Championship in Switzerland and Austria. | | 03/07/2007 | 2,812 |
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 | The 2007 Six Nations Championship is played annually over five weekends predominantly in February and March. Each of the six participating nations plays each other which results in 15 rugby matches over the tournament, with home advantage alternating each year.
Match winners receive two points, with one for a draw and none for a loss. | | 02/06/2007 | 321 |
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 | Rail cars that caught fire after a freight train crash near Louisville, Kentucky, were being allowed to burn throughout the night to destroy hazardous materials inside them, authorities announced Tuesday evening.
The fiery derailment prompted authorities to evacuate everyone within a mile of the wreck as a pall of thick, black smoke began to spread across the town of Brooks, abo... | | 01/16/2007 | 632 |
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 | Norway’s WRC round, 16-18 February 2007, will contain numerous spectacular Special Stages (SS). From the start/finish in Hamar, the special stages will run northeast of Oslo, the capital of Norway, from the mountainous region of Lillehammer in the north to the forests of Kongsvinger in the south. Rally Norway 2006 may well be the first time the international car industry will meet such pictures... | | 01/05/2007 | 457 |
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