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    derailed near Little Falls, New York, United States. The accident was later found to have occurred due to excessive speed on the Gulf Curve, the sharpest...
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  • the curve. After the accident, a 45 miles (72 km) per hour speed limit was put in place. The much more deadly Little Falls Gulf Curve crash of 1940 occurred...
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  • in Croatia); 20 die. April 19 – United States – Little Falls Gulf Curve crash of 1940Little Falls, New York: The New York Central Lake Shore Limited...
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    "Deadly NY limo crash stark reminder of bus fire that killed 23 from Bellaire". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved October 9, 2018. "Wreck of the Mexico (1837)...
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  • the practice of school buses stopping to look and listen for trains at grade crossings 1940 Little Falls Gulf Curve crash, Little Falls, New York; 31...
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  • January (?) "Aviation Cadet Henry A. McGinnis, East Falls Church, Va., crashed within a block of his own home recently while on a routine training flight...
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    Pennsylvania!" The Flight 93 National Memorial is located at the site of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93—which was hijacked in the September 11 attacks—in...
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    NY 17 goes around the side of Prospect Mountain at what is locally known as "kamikaze curve". Heading eastbound, the freeway curves sharply left around the...
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    to the development and formation of a surface low over eastern Colorado early on December 19. The low began to curve towards the northeast, and its barometric...
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    sailors and is nicknamed "The Beirut Battalion." The battalion falls under the command of the 6th Marine Regiment and the 2nd Marine Division. The unit's...
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    market crashed and banks began to fail in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The early decades of the 20th century were remarkable for the improvements of the...
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    initially entered the town of Le Mans, the track was cut short to better protect spectators. This led to the creation of the Dunlop Curve and Tertre Rouge corners...
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  • (Kinorhyncha: Allomalorhagida) from the Gulf of Mexico: Fujuriphyes viserioni sp. nov. and a redescription of Leiocanthus langi (Higgins, 1964), with...
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    Illinois. Often the WCTU women took up the issue of women's suffrage which had lain dormant since the Seneca Falls Convention. With leaders like Susan B. Anthony...
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    Charles Lindbergh (category People from Little Falls, Minnesota)
    of the globe. Lindbergh was raised mostly in Little Falls, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C., the son of prominent U.S. Congressman Charles August Lindbergh...
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  • which the crash of a passenger plane in the Amazon rainforest allows an anarchist assassin to re-evaluate himself A Dispatch from Reuter's – 1940 film by...
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    Lincoln Tunnel (category Crossings of the Hudson River)
    awarded for the westward extension of NJ 3 to Little Falls, New Jersey, as well as the construction of a portion of what is now US 46. Due to wartime material...
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    Allies. After the prosperous Roaring Twenties, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 marked the onset of the decade-long worldwide Great Depression. President Franklin...
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  • security reasons of the early Cold War era. Flightline shots were conducted on 19 September with scenes in the Gulf with Eglin crash boats filmed on 20...
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    Putnam. The Great Hudson River Chain and high ground above the narrow "S" curve in the river enabled the Continental Army to prevent the Royal Navy from...
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    including Malone. Battle of the Gulf of Riga — The German High Seas Fleet attempted to clear Russian minefields around the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea...
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    the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including...
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  • of the Wind River chain of mountains thence south east and south by the dividing range of mountains that separate the waters flowing into the Gulf of...
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    afternoon thunderstorms caused by monsoon moisture moving up from the Gulf of California. Although rainfall can be heavy, these storms are usually scattered...
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  • ferrying lend-lease supplies to the Chinese Army. One woman died in the crash of an aerial broadcasting plane. In 1942, the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer...
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    State Civil Service Commission, 733 F2d 220 (2nd 1984) the use of a separate grading curve on the New York Civil Service Commission entrance test for minority...
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  • November 7 – Future Hall of Fame pitcher Roy Halladay is killed when his ICON A5 aircraft crashes into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. November...
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    referred to as the great bison belt, a tract of rich grassland spanning from Alaska south to the Gulf of Mexico, and east to the Atlantic Seaboard (nearly...
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    Kent, destroying a gasometer in Ramsgate but achieving little else. Five of the bombers crashed while attempting to land upon returning to their bases...
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  • Retrieved 13 October 2021. Buhl, P.N. (1997). "On some new or little known species of Platygastrinae (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae)" (PDF). Entomofauna...
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