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  2. 1991 - Wikipedia

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    Clockwise, from top left: A destroyed Serbian T-55 tank during the Croatian War of Independence, the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars; the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, the second-most powerful eruption of the 20th century; Lauda Air Flight 004 crashes, killing all 223 on board; Boris Yeltsin waves the new Russian flag after the 1991 Soviet coup d'etat attempt; the United States ...

  3. Colonel March of Scotland Yard - Wikipedia

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    Carr was a mystery author who specialised in locked-room whodunnits and other 'impossible' crimes: murder mysteries that seemed to defy possibility. [2] The stories of the television series followed in the same vein with March solving cases that baffle Scotland Yard and the British police. The department itself is sometimes referred to as "D3".

  4. Black swan theory - Wikipedia

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    Black swan events were discussed by Taleb in his 2001 book Fooled By Randomness, which concerned financial events. His 2007 book The Black Swan extended the metaphor to events outside financial markets. Taleb regards almost all major scientific discoveries, historical events, and artistic accomplishments as "black swans"—undirected and ...

  5. Lake Nyos disaster - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The event resulted in the supersaturated deep water rapidly mixing with the upper layers of the lake, where the reduced pressure allowed the stored CO 2 to effervesce out of solution. [12] It is believed that about 1.2 cubic kilometres (4.2 × 10 10 cu ft) of gas was released. [13]

  6. 2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly - Wikipedia

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    Map of Norway in which the light was observed in the red and blue (Northern Norway). The Norwegian spiral anomaly of 2009 [1] (Norwegian: det spiralformede lysmønsteret, "the spiral-form light pattern", det spiralformede lysfenomenet, "the spiral-form light phenomenon") [2] was a light phenomenon that appeared in the night sky over Norway in the morning of 9 December 2009. [3]

  7. David Paulides - Wikipedia

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    Paulides has Greek ancestry. [3] In his online biography page, Paulides states that he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of San Francisco, and in 1977 he began a 20-year career in law enforcement, transferring in 1980 to the San Jose Police Department, working in the patrol division on the SWAT Team, patrol, and Street Crimes Unit, and a variety of assignments ...

  8. Gamma-ray burst - Wikipedia

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    This class of GRB-like events was first discovered through the detection of Swift J1644+57 (originally classified as GRB 110328A) by the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission on 28 March 2011. This event had a gamma-ray duration of about 2 days, much longer than even ultra-long GRBs, and was detected in many frequencies for months and years after.

  9. January 1938 geomagnetic storm - Wikipedia

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    The 25–26 January 1938 geomagnetic storm (also titled the Fátima Storm) was a massive solar storm which occurred 16–26 January with peak activity on 22, 25, and 26 January and was part of the 17th solar cycle.