• The Breaking of the Drought is a 1920 Australian silent film from director Franklyn Barrett based on the popular play by Bland Holt and Arthur Shirley...
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    Drought in Australia is defined by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology as rainfall over period greater than three-months being in the lowest decile of...
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    The 2000s drought in Australia, also known as the millennium drought, is said by some to be the worst drought recorded since European settlement. The...
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    The 2011–2017 California drought persisted from December 2011 to March 2017 and consisted of the driest period in California's recorded history, late 2011...
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  • areas are affected by drought and allowing ecosystems and core species populations to survive until the drought breaks. Drought refuges are important...
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    The 2012–2013 North American drought, an expansion of the 2010–2013 Southern United States drought, originated in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave...
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    The historical and ongoing droughts in California result from various complex meteorological phenomena, some of which are not fully understood by scientists...
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    droughts and crop failures occurred on the territory of Russia, the Russian Empire and the USSR on more or less regular basis. From the beginning of the...
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    precipitation leads to drought, and is caused by an above average persistence of high pressure over the affected area. Changes in the track of extratropical cyclones...
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  • appearance droughts and winning droughts in almost every level of the NFL playoff system. All 32 active NFL teams have qualified for and won a game in the playoffs...
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    Annette Kellerman (category Australian people of French descent)
    in the Coogee scene of Bland Holt's spectacular, The Breaking of the Drought, at the Melbourne Theatre Royal. Kellermann and Beatrice Kerr, who was billed...
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    of drought. Scientists at the Brazilian National Institute of Amazonian Research argued in the article that this drought response, coupled with the effects...
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    The Sahel region of Africa has long experienced a series of historic droughts, dating back to at least the 17th century. The Sahel region is a climate...
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    2021, the taiga forests in Siberia and the Far East region of Russia were hit by unprecedented wildfires, following record-breaking heat and drought. For...
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    Stone magazine considered the mixtapes Da Drought 3 and The Drought Is Over 2 (The Carter 3 Sessions) "among the best albums of 2007". Despite no album...
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    of the Drought, at the Melbourne Theatre Royal. She is often credited with inventing the sport of synchronized swimming after her 1917 performance of...
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    Lawry and the breaking of the drought", The Footy Almanac, 23 February 2016. Hobbs, Greg, "Century to Lawry Warning to Dons' Bowlers, The Age, (Monday...
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    entertain every year a party of veteran members of the profession. Holt wrote the play The Breaking of the Drought which was made into a film in 1920. Holt died...
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  • Albert-Jones - New Zealand Rugby League". 25 July 2022. "Akarana break 11 year drought taking home Sky Sport Women's Premiership - New Zealand Rugby League"...
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  • The Eastern Cape region of South Africa experienced a severe multi-year drought from 2015 through early 2020. The drought was one of the worst in the...
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    3:10 to Yuma (1957 film) (category Films set in the 1880s)
    sees Dan leave safely on the train as rain pours down on her, breaking the long drought. Glenn Ford as Ben Wade Van Heflin as Dan Evans Felicia Farr as...
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    Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (category Badminton players at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics)
    Entered the Korea Open as a top seed, he was beaten in the first round by world number 67, Lucas Claerbout. Ginting ended his two-year title drought by winning...
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  • (1923) The Brass Bottle (1964) The Brat (1931) Die Bräutigamswitwe (1931) Breaker Morant (1980) Breakfast at Sunrise (1927) The Breaking of the Drought (1920)...
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    has the longest active championship drought in North American sports at 77 seasons (one more than MLB's Cleveland Guardians, who last won the World...
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  • club-record fee. Coach Héctor Cúper was recruited by Inter to break their title drought, being replaced by surprise choice Rafael Benítez. Note: Flags...
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    Jonatan Christie (category Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics)
    2024 edition of the tournament. He won the men's singles title at the 2017 SEA Games and at the 2018 Asian Games. Christie was part of Indonesia's winning...
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    Lyceum Theatre: "The Breaking of the Drought", Sydney Morning Herald, 27 December 1902, page 8. Lyceum Theatre: "The Breaking of the Drought", Daily Telegraph...
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    American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought) and human-made factors: a failure...
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  • Sydney, where he gave a number of recitals of his own music, and his "poem for orchestra and voice," The Breaking of the Drought, was performed with Alfred...
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  • municipal supply. The Cape Town water crisis occurred at the same time as the Eastern Cape drought, located in a separate region nearby. The City of Cape Town...
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