A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word is applied to the inflow of the tide, as opposed to the outflow or "ebb". The Flood, the great Universal Deluge of myth and perhaps o ...

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The Flood Halo, The Flood Halo - Overview, The Flood Halo - Flood forms, The Flood Halo - Infection forms, The Flood Halo - Combat forms, The Flood Halo - Carrier forms, The Flood Halo - Brain forms, The Flood Halo - Command forms, The Flood Halo - Flood details

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In western countries, rivers prone to flooding are often carefully managed. Defences such as levees, bunds, reservoirs, and weirs are used to prevent rivers from bursting their banks. Coastal flooding has been addressed in Europe with coastal defenses, such as sea walls and beach nourishment. London is protected from flooding by a huge mechanical barrier across the River Thames, which is raised when the water level reaches a certain point (see Thames Barrier). Venice has a similar arrangement, although it is already una ...

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A flood occurs when an area of land, usually low-lying, is covered with water. The worst floods usually occur when a river overflows its banks. An example of this is the January 1999 Queensland floods, which swamped south-eastern Queensland. Floods happen when soil and vegetation cannot absorb all the water ; water then runs off the land in quantities that cannot be carried in stream channels or kept in ...

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In August of 2002 a 100-year flood caused by over a week of continuous heavy rains ravaged Europe, killing dozens, dispossessing thousands, and causing damages of billions of euros in the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Croatia. 2002 European floods - Development of the floods. The floods first started with heavy rainfall in the Eastern Alps, which resulted in floods in Northern Italy, Bavaria and the Austrian states of Salzburg and Upper Austria. The floods gradual ...

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Curtis Charles Flood (born January 18, 1938 in Houston, Texas—died January 20, 1997 in Los Angeles, California), was a Major League Baseball player, primarily a center fielder, for the Cincinnati Reds (1956-1957) and the St. Louis Cardinals from 1958-1971). A three-time All-Star and seven-time Gold Glove Award winner, Flood hit .300 or better six times during his 15-year major league career. Flood had a lifetime batting average of .293. He was the quintessential number two batter, who Lou Brock cited for his great success during the prime of his career. He once we ...

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The 2000 Mozambique flood was a natural disaster that occurred in February 2000. The catastrophic flood was caused by heavy rainfall that led to the overflowing of rivers. The situation was intensified when Cyclone Eline hit the same area on 22 February, 2000. Floodwaters peaked on 1 March at 8 metres (26 feet). The United Nations listed in 2004 that the great flood killed 800 people and affected 1,500,000 (about 12% of the nation's people). The death toll was increased by survivors who were left to suffer lack of food, clean w ...

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Before the Flood is the title of a 1974 live album by Bob Dylan and The Band. Recorded on the 40-show January and February 1974 Dylan/Band reunion tour coming on the heels of Dylan’s hit album Planet Waves (also backed by The Band), this live set was a high-profile comeback for both sides of the bill. While virtually all the songs here were familiar and might be considered "hits," few of them sound similar to their original vers ...

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The Maharashtra floods of 2005 refers to the flooding of many parts of the Indian state of Maharashtra including large areas of the metropolis of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), a city located on the coast of the Arabian Sea, on the western coast of India, in which at least 1,000 people died. It happened just one month after similar flooding in Gujarat. The floods were caused by the eighth heaviest ever recorded 24-hour rainfall figure of 944 mm (37.2 inches) which lashed the metropolis on 26 July 2005, and intermittently c ...

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• 2005 Maharashtra floods - Antiquated drainage system
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The 1931 Huang He floods (Yellow River Floods) are generally thought to be the deadliest natural disaster of historic times, and almost certainly of the twentieth century (when pandemics are discounted). Estimates of the number of people killed range from 850,000 to 4,000,000. Deaths caused by the flooding include but are not limited to drowning, disease, ensuing famines, and droughts. The Huang He or Yellow River has been prone to flooding due to the broad expanse of almost flat land around it. The 1887 Huang He floods had devastated the area, killing 900,000-2,000,000. ...

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On 30 January 1607 (New style) the Bristol Channel floods resulted in the drowning of an estimated 2,000 or more people, with houses and villages swept away, farmland inundated and livestock destroyed, wrecking the local economy along the coasts of the Bristol Channel. The devastation was particularly bad on the Welsh side from Laugharne in Carmarthenshire to above Chepstow on the English border. Cardiff was the most badly affected town. The coasts of Devon and the Somerset Levels as far inla ...

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Floods have continued to be a concern for Johnstown. A "500 year flood" was a massive event that hydrologists predicted had only a one-in-500 chance in happening in any given year. These predictions are based upon natural events, rather than a human-related failing such as the Great Flood of 1889. Johnstown experienced additional major flooding in subsequent years, especially in 1894, 1907 and 1924. The most significant flood ...

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The Flood is a parasitic virulent life form which is spread by infected carrier hosts. The Flood appears in three primary forms: parasitic spores (Infection Forms) that attach themselves to hosts and transform the hosts' DNA, mutated hosts (Combat Forms) such as humans or Covenant, and (Carrier Forms), the final stage in the flood lifecycle where the host explodes, expelling spores that continue the process. Flood that manage to assimilate their hosts gain full control of the host body and access to the host's memories and brain function ...

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The initial flooding begain in June of 1951 with heavy rains that month. The flooding reached its worst stages when between 8 and 16 inches fell on the region between July 9 and 13. The flood levels reached their highest point since the Great Flood of 1844. July 13 experienced the single greatest levels of flood and led to the greatest amount of destruction by flood experienced in the Midwest as of that date. The actual flood-levels aren't accurately known for the Kansas River as the water crested above all official flood gages. Howev ...

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Great Flood of 1951, Great Flood of 1951 - The Flood, Great Flood of 1951 - Flood Levels, Great Flood of 1951 - Kansas River, Great Flood of 1951 - Marais Des Cygnes River, Great Flood of 1951 - Neosho River, Great Flood of 1951 - Outcome

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Flood. A story found in various forms in every cosmology. The Chaldean and Sumerian versions antedate the Hebrew; India, China, and other Asiatic countries furnish their own versions. It occurs in the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the QuichŽs of Central American, as well as among many ancient American tribes; the story is found among the ancient Scandinavians, the Polynesian peoples, and among African tribes, such as the Masai of East Africa.

These stories refer in part to an actual great deluge in the world's history, mainly to the sinking of the great and smaller islands of the Atlantean continental stretches. In many if not all the versions, we find that a race had become so corrupt that nature or the gods would no longer tolerate it, and destroyed it and brought forth a new race. There is usually a type-figure, like the Hebrew Noah, who builds an ark or other vessel of salvation, thus saving from the waters the righteous few to be the seeds of the new race. In many versions are traditions of the destruction of the preceding root-race, Atlantis, by water, and of the saving of various groups of human remnants to found new civilizations on lands, then or shortly later geologically speaking, emerging from the ocean.

But besides the particular application to this latest cataclysm in the earth's history, the story refers to cataclysms in general, to the death of old races and the birth of new ones. The evolution of the earth goes on pari passu with that of the beings upon it. These stories are evidently allegorical as well, with reference to cosmological facts.

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For the cause of the flood, Genesis states only that God deliberately caused the flood, indicating that the cause of the flood was supernatural in origin. Beyond that, the account states that the "fountains of the great deep" broke open and the "windows of heaven" were opened, which brought the flood. It rained for 40 days, but the waters continued to rise for 110 more days, indicating that there was another water-source, probably the subterranean "fountains of the great deep." The waters then slowly began to recede amidst a "great wind," un ...

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Flood geology was revived in the 20th century by George McCready Price, a Seventh-day Adventist and amateur geologist who wrote The New Geology in 1923 to provide an explicitly Christian fundamentalist perspective on geology. His work was adapted and updated by Henry M. Morris and John C. Whitcomb, Jr. in their book The Genesis Flood in 1961. Morris and Whitcomb argued that the Earth was geologically recent, that the Fall of Man had triggered the second law of thermodynamics, and that the Great Flood had laid down most of the g ...

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December 24, 1969 After twelve years in the Major Leagues, I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes. I believe that any system which produces that result violates my basic rights as a citizen and is inconsistent with the laws of the United States and of the sovereign States. It is my desire to play baseball in 1970, and I am capable of playing. I have received a contract offer from the Philadelphia Club, but I believe I have the right to consider offers from other c ...

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On May 28, 1889, a storm formed over Nebraska and Kansas, moving east. When the storm struck the Johnstown-South Fork area two days later it was the worst downpour that had ever been recorded in that section of the country. The U.S. Army Signal Corps estimated that 6 to 10 inches (150 to 250 mm) of rain fell in 24 hours over the entire section. During the night small creeks became roaring torrents, ripping out trees and debris. Telegraph lines were downed and rail lines were washed out. Before daybreak the Conemaugh Riv ...

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Johnstown Flood, Johnstown Flood - Johnstown Pennsylvania: a history of flooding, Johnstown Flood - South Fork Dam and Lake Conemaugh, Johnstown Flood - The Great Flood of 1889, Johnstown Flood - Aftermath: Red Cross relief efforts, Johnstown Flood - Blame: an act of God?, Johnstown Flood - Continued flooding at Johnstown a 500 year flood, Johnstown Flood - External link

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The science of geology was founded in Great Britain in the 18th century. Its practitioners sought to understand the history and shaping of the Earth through the physical evidence laid down in rocks and minerals. As many early geologists were clergymen, they naturally sought to link the geological history of the world with that set out in the Bible. The ancient theory that fossils were the result of "plastic forces" within the Earth's crust had by this time been abandoned, with the recognition that they represented the remains of once-living creatures. This, though, raised a major problem: how did fossils of ...

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Flood geology, Flood geology - Flood geology versus mainstream science, Flood geology - Origins of flood geology, Flood geology - The revival of flood geology, Flood geology - Processes, Flood geology - Liquefaction, Flood geology - Submarine canyon formation, Flood geology - Fossilization, Flood geology - Fossil fuels, Flood geology - Fossil layering, Flood geology - Frozen mammoths, Flood geology - Proposed mechanisms of the flood, Flood geology - Reliability of Genesis, Flood geology - Comparison with mainstream geology, Flood geology - Age of the Earth, Flood geology - Counterpoints, Flood geology - Water source, Flood geology - Geological evidence, Flood geology - Archaeological evidence, Flood geology - Paleontological evidence, Flood geology - Grass evidence, Flood geology - Philosophical objections

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