John H. "Jack" Flood (June 24, 1939 – July 26, 2016) was an American politician who was Sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts from 1996 to 1999 and...
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John Henry Flood Jr. (January 16, 1878 – March 29, 1958) was a mining engineer who worked as Wyatt Earp's unpaid personal secretary late in Earp's life...
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John Flood may refer to: John Flood (academic), UK-Australian legal sociologist John Flood (cricketer) (1883–1929), Australian born, Irish cricketer John...
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purposes of flood control, and hydropower. The dam also serves wildlife resources, forest conservation, and public recreational uses. The John H. Kerr Dam...
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Chevalier William Henry Grattan Flood (baptised 1 November 1857 – 6 August 1928) was a noted Irish author, composer, musicologist and historian. As a...
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A field survey by the University of Nanking led by John Lossing Buck immediately after the flood found "150,000 people had drowned, and that this number...
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The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster, was a disaster that occurred on Wednesday, January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood...
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The Johnstown Flood, sometimes referred to locally as Great Flood of 1889, occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South...
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intense floods and increased flood risk. Natural types of floods include river flooding, groundwater flooding coastal flooding and urban flooding sometimes...
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The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre-creation...
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A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution...
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William Brocius (category Articles with hCards)
verdict of accidental death.[citation needed] Wyatt told his biographer John H. Flood, Jr., many years later that he thought that Brocius was still armed...
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Stewart as Wyatt Earp. John Gilchriese, an amateur historian and long-time collector of Earp memorabilia, interviewed John H. Flood Jr., Wyatt Earp's secretary...
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Flood management describes methods used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters. Flooding can be caused by a mix of both natural processes...
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Thomas H. Flood (1804 – 1873) was a nineteenth-century American politician from Virginia. Flood was born in Buckingham County, Virginia in 1806, before...
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The Missoula floods (also known as the Spokane floods, the Bretz floods, or Bretz's floods) were cataclysmic glacial lake outburst floods that swept periodically...
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6, 2011. From Turner, Alford (Ed.), The O. K. Corral Inquest (1992) John H. Flood Manuscript, 1926, p.85 Trimble, Marshall. "The Outlaw King of Galeyville"...
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Texas Flood is the debut studio album by the American blues rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, released on June 13, 1983, by Epic Records...
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Wyatt Earp (category Articles with hCards)
Lot #43400". Heritage Auctions. Retrieved February 23, 2020. Flood, John H. (1926). Flood Manuscript (Unpublished manuscript ed.). p. 85. Gatto, Steve...
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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles (70,000 km2) inundated...
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Frank Stilwell (category Articles with hCards)
shot up man I ever saw.": 247 In a 1926 interview with biographer John H. Flood, Wyatt said that they spotted Stilwell and Clanton armed on a flatcar...
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Floods in the United States (2000–present) is a list of flood events which were of significant impact to the country during the 21st century, since 2000...
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The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of California, Oregon, and Nevada, inundating the western United States and portions...
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100-year flood is a flood event that has on average a 1 in 100 chance (1% probability) of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. A 100-year flood is also...
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George H. Flood was an American politician and diplomat who served as the second American chargé d'affaires to Texas in 1840 and 1841. A native of Virginia...
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Texas Jack Vermillion (redirect from John Wilson Vermillion)
father had also served as a Confederate soldier. In the unpublished 1926 John H. Flood manuscript of Wyatt Earp's biography, Vermillion is mentioned (as "Texas...
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Noah's Ark (redirect from Noahs flood)
(Hebrew: תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) is the boat in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all...
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nor that he knew Brocius or Diehl prior to the cattle drive. Writer John H. Flood, in his unpublished 1926 manuscript Wyatt Earp biography (for which...
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Georgia Flood (born 1992) is an Australian film, television and theatre actress. After studying at the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq...
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A flood basalt (or plateau basalt) is the result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions that covers large stretches of land or the ocean...
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