Originally there was an isthmus across the Strait of Dover. During an earlier glacial maximum, the exit from the North Sea was blocked to the north by an ice dam, and the water flowing out of rivers backed up into a vast lake on the bed of what is now the North Sea. A gently upfolding chalk ridge linked the Weald of Kent and Artois, perhaps some 30 metres (100 feet) higher than the current sea level.
At some time, probably around 425,000 years ago, and again around 225,000 years later, the barrier failed.
This let loose a catastrophic flood which diverted the Rhine into the English Channel and separated Britain from the continent of Europe. A sonar study of the sea bed of the English Channel showed unmistakable signs of a megaflood on the English Channel seabed.
A catastrophic flood refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.3 million years ago. The flood occurred when Atlantic waters found their way through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean basin, which was then a salt lake and salt bed.
In North America during glacial maximum, there were no Great Lakes as we know them. but "proglacial" (ice-frontage) lakes formed and shifted. The most famous of these proglacial lakes was Lake Agassiz. Melting ice caused a series of great floods from Lake Agassiz. Massive amounts of freshwater was added to the world's oceans.
The last of the North American proglacial lakes, north of the present Great Lakes, reached its largest volume around 8,500 years ago, when joined with Lake Agassiz. But its outlet was blocked by the great wall of the glaciers and it drained by tributaries into the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers far to the south. About 8,300 to 7,700 years ago, the ice-dam failed catastrophically. Lake Ojibway's beach terraces show that it was above sea level. The volume of Lake Ojibway is estimated to have been about 163,000 cubic kilometres, more than enough water to cover a flattened-out Antarctica with a sheet of water deep. That volume was added to the world's oceans in a matter of months.
The detailed timing and rates of change after the onset of melting of the great ice-sheets are subjects of continuing study.
A landslide dam on Sichuan's Dadu River burst and caused a flood on 10 June 1786. The flood extended 1400 km downstream and killed 100,000 people. This was one of the worst landslide-related disasters in history.
Erik Erikson
Erik Homburger Erikson (15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst. Erikson is known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. Erikson is also known for coining the phrase "identity crisis". His son is Kai T. Erikson, a sociologist.
In 1970, Erikson won a Pulitzer Prize in "General Nonfiction" and won a U.S. National Book Award in the "Philosophy and Religion" category, both for "Gandhi's Truth".
Erikson died at the Rosewood Manor Nursing Home in Harwich, Massachusetts on 12 May 1994.
Lucy (movie)
Lucy is a 2014 French science fiction superhero action movie. It is about street gangs, drugs and changing of the title character to superhuman. It was written and directed by Luc Besson and is set in Taipei. Scarlett Johansson plays Lucy. Morgan Freeman plays Norman.
The movie was released in July 2014 in the United States.
Air China Flight 129
Air China flight 129 is an international scheduled flight from Beijing to Pusan. On April 15, 2002, the Boeing 767-2J6ER flying the route crashed into a mountain while trying to land at Busan-Gimhae International Airport. Of the 166 people on the aircraft, 129 were killed. Investigators determined that pilot error was the cause of the crash.
This was the first time an Air China crash killed people. It was also the worst plane crash in South Korea.
Lake Mattamuskeet
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Pinehurst Resort
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Owen Woodhouse
Lieutenant Commander Sir Arthur Owen Woodhouse (18 July 1916 – 15 April 2014), better known as Owen Woodhouse, was a New Zealand lawyer, jurist and chair of government commissions. He was a member of the Supreme Court. He later served as President of the Court of Appeal from 1981 until 1986.
Woodhouse was born in Napier and studied at the University of Auckland. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant commander in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Woodhouse died from natural causes on 15 April 2014 in Auckland, aged 97.
Davidson Black
Davidson Black was a Canadian doctor who studied anatomy and anthropology. In 1927, he led a team that discovered bone fossils from an early species of human beings in China. The fossils were about 750,000 years old. They belonged to the species "Sinanthropus pekinensis" or Peking Man. He and his team found these fossils near the village of Zhoukoudian, near Beijing.
Black was born in Toronto, Ontario on July 25, 1884. He graduated from the University of Toronto. In 1921, he became a professor of anatomy in China at Peking Union Medical College. He died on March 15, 1934.
Rhys Darby
Rhys Montague Darby (born 21 March 1974) is a New Zealand actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Murray Hewitt, the band manager of Flight of the Conchords, in the HBO television series of the same name (2007–2009). He has since appeared in movies such as "Yes Man" (2008), "The Boat That Rocked" (2009), "" (2009), "Love Birds" (2011), "Arthur Christmas" (2011), and "What We Do in the Shadows" (2014).
Darby was born in Auckland. He grew up in the suburb of Pakuranga. He was a soldier in the New Zealand Army. He is married to Rosie Carnahan. The couple have two children.
Albert Sidney Johnston
Albert Sidney Johnston (February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862) was a Confedeate general during the American Civil War. He was born in 1803 in Tennessee. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1826. He resigned from the U.S. army in 1834 after his wife died. He then joined the Texas army during the Texas Revolution and continued serving in it after Texas became a republic. In 1840 he resigned from the Texas army and moved to Kentucky.
Johnston rejoined the U.S. army for the Mexican–American War. By 1860 he was in charge of the U.S. army in California. He resigned in May 1861 after Texas joined the Confederate States of America. He was made a four star general in the Confederate army and put in charge of the Confederate units in Kentucky and Tennessee. He was killed at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862.
Brick Mansions
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The movie was released on April 25, 2014. It is a remake of "District 13".
John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood (1831 – August 30, 1879) was a Confederate army general during the American Civil War. He was born in 1831 in Kentucky. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1853. After the Battle of Fort Sumter, he joined the Confederate army as colonel of the 4th Texas Infantry. In February 1862, he became commander of the Texas Brigade as a brigadier general. He became commander of a division in July 1862. He was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. He was wounded again at the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. In late July 1864, he became commander of the Army of Tennessee.
After the war, Hood became a businessman. He married in 1868 and had eleven children. He died in 1879 during a yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans.
Brigade
A brigade is a military unit in an army. Currently in most armies, a brigade is made up of several battalions. Up to World War II, a brigade had several regiments.
A brigade is commanded by a brigadier general, a brigadier, or a colonel.
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