Global crises unfold with floods, fires and storms across continents
Europe endures catastrophic floods in northern Italy with at least 80 dead and $6 billion in damage while storms lash Morocco, France and Spain killing 23. Severe winter snows paralyze roads in eastern Turkey. UFO sightings reported in Shanghai. typhoon Zelda and Florence affect Japan and Atlantic shipping. Arctic oil spill worsens in Komi. Greenpeace footage surfaces. Wild elephants rampage in West Bengal killing four and injuring fifty as alcohol fuels a deadly spree.
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Italy
Morocco
France
Spain
The
Press Trust of India
West Bengal
Milwaukee museum tells story of American lynchings
James Cameron recalls the night a mob dragged him from jail in Marion Indiana in 1930 and hanged his two friends. Now 80 he documents lynching history for Americas Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee with artifacts, photos, and writings to educate on mob violence.
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Milwaukee
James Cameron
Cameron
America
KKK
William L. van Deburg
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States
Marion
Ind
Indiana
Evan Bayh
Black Holocaust Museum
Seagrove Pottery Festival features Peggy Cole in Randolph County
Peggy Cole will headline the 1994 Seagrove Pottery Festival next Sunday at Seagrove School in Randolph County. The Cole family, longtime North Carolina potters, have works in Smithsonian displays and university collections. The festival runs 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. with a 4 p.m. auction for a commemorative piece signed by stock car driver Richard Petty. admission $2, under 12 free. Also note sale of a 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS at Spencer Shops with bidding opening Nov 21 and closing Dec 9.
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Peggy Cole
Seagrove Pottery
Seagrove
Randolph County
Piedmont North Carolina
Richard Petty
N.C. Transportation Museum
Spencer Shops
Transportation Museum
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Shanghai
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Victoria
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Brisbane
West Java
Kodiak Island
Alaskan Peninsula
Alaska
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Peru
Brazil-Peru
Russia
Komi Republic
Evgeny Minayev
Aean
Russian Fuel and Energy Ministry
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Usinsk
Greenpeace
Komi
U.S. Climate Analysis Center
U.S. Earthquake Information Center
World Meteorological Organization
By Steve Newman
Oefer
Teatro DE Danza Espanola
Dance Theatre OF Spain
Wright Auditorium
Diamond Shoal Jewelers
Dell Tole
Morehead City
C & $ Furniture
Wynn Hawley
GSA
Seagrove Pottery Festival
Wner
New Bern
Queen
Pembroke
Fur Sale
Sheraton Hotel
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