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    The blizzard and flood of 1863 was a series of consecutive natural disasters in Central Otago in New Zealand's South Island. In the early 1860s the area...
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    recent temperature of −21.6 °C (−6.9 °F) recorded in 1995 in nearby Ophir. July 1863 The blizzard and flood of 1863 was a series of consecutive natural...
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  • for Culture and Heritage. Great storm of 1868, flash floods and 12 shipwrecks Disasters and Mishaps – Shipwrecks, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand...
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    including Arrowtown, Kawarau Gorge, Lawrence and the Dunedin Chinese Garden. Blizzard and Flood of 1863 Mining in New Zealand West Coast gold rush Gold...
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    Douglas became a permanent prisoner-of-war camp from January 1863 to the end of the war in May 1865. In the summer and fall of 1865, the camp served as a mustering...
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    "1864: Explosion of the Washoe". California Disasters, 1812-1899: Firsthand Accounts of Fires, Shipwrecks, Floods, Epidemics, Earthquakes and Other California...
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    American author of children's books, with several series of fiction, non-fiction and historical fiction works found in thousands of libraries and translated...
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    56th Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division (United States) (category Military units and formations in Pennsylvania)
    during the Blizzard of 1996, when flood emergencies were declared by the Governors of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. During the blizzard in Philadelphia...
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    Snow (category Forms of water)
    which are capable of producing anything from cloudiness and mild snow storms to heavy blizzards. During a hemisphere's fall, winter, and spring, the atmosphere...
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    New York City Subway (category Railway lines opened in 1863)
    within the limits of the present-day City Hall station under Broadway. The Great Blizzard of 1888 helped demonstrate the benefits of an underground transportation...
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