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Zemanek, Alicja, and Piotr Köhler. "Historia Ogrodu Botanicznego Uniwersytetu Stefana Batorego w Wilnie (1919–1939)." Studia Historiae Scientiarum 15 (November 24, 2016): 301–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/23921749shs.16.012.6155.

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The university in Vilna (Lithuanian: Vilnius), now Vilniaus universitetas, founded in 1579 by Stefan Batory (Stephen Báthory), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, was a centre of Polish botany in 1780-1832 and 1919-1939. The Botanic Garden established by Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert (1741–1814) in 1781 (or, actually, from 1782) survived the loss of independence by Poland (1795), and a later closure of the University (1832), and it continued to function until 1842, when it was shut down by Russian authorities. After Poland had regained independence and the University was reopened as the Stefan Batory University (SBU), its Botanic Garden was established on a new location (1919, active since 1920). It survived as a Polish institution until 1939. After the Second World War, as a result of changed borders, it found itself in the Soviet Union, and from 1990 – in the Republic of Lithuania. A multidisciplinary research project has been recently launched with the aim to create a publication on the history of science at the Stefan Batory University. The botanical part of the project includes, among others, drafting the history of the Botanic Garden. Obtaining electronic copies of archival documents, e.g. annual reports written by the directors, enabled a more thorough analysis of the Garden’s history. Piotr Wiśniewski (1884–1971), a plant physiologist, nominated as Professor in the Department of General Botany on 1 June 1920, was the organiser and the first director of the Garden. He resigned from his post in October 1923, due to financial problems of the Garden. From October 1923 to April 1924, the management was run by the acting director, Edward Bekier (1883–1945), Professor in the Department of Physical Chemistry, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. For 13 subsequent years, i.e. from 1 May 1924 to 30 April 1937, the directorship of the Garden was held by Józef Trzebiński (1867–1941), a mycologist and one of the pioneers of phytopathology in Poland, Head of the Department of Botany II (Agricultural Botany), renamed in 1926 as the Department of Plant Taxonomy, and in 1937 – the Department of Taxonomy and Geography of Plants. From May 1937 to 1939, his successor as director was Franciszek Ksawery Skupieński (1888–1962), a researcher of slime moulds. Great credit for the development of the Garden is due to the Inspector, i.e. Chief Gardener, Konstanty Prószyński (Proszyński) (1859–1936) working there from 1919, through his official nomination in 1920, until his death. He was an amateur-naturalist, a former landowner, who had lost his property. Apart from the work on establishing and maintaining the Garden’s collection, as well as readying seeds for exchange, he published one mycological paper, and prepared a manuscript on fungi, illustrated by himself, containing descriptions of the new species. Unfortunately, this work was not published for lack of funds, and the prepared material was scattered. Some other illustrations of flowering plants drawn by Prószyński survived. There were some obstacles to the further development of the institution, namely substantially inadequate funds as well as too few members of the personnel (1–3 gardeners, and 1–3 seasonal workers). The area of the Garden, covering approx. 2 hectares was situated on the left bank of the Neris river (Polish: Wilia). It was located on sandy soils of a floodplain, and thus liable to flooding. These were the reasons for the decision taken in June 1939 to move the Garden to a new site but the outbreak of the Second World War stood in the way. Despite these disadvantageous conditions, the management succeeded in setting up sections of plants analogous to these established in other botanical gardens in Poland and throughout the world, i.e. general taxonomy (1922), native flora (1922), psammophilous plants (1922), cultivated plants (1924/1925), plant ecology (1927/1928), alpinarium (1927–1929), high-bog plants (1927–1929), and, additionally – in the 1920s – the arboretum, as well as sections of aquatic and bog plants. A glasshouse was erected in 1926–1929 to provide room for plants of warm and tropical zones. The groups representing the various types of vegetation illustrated the progress in ecology and phytosociology in the science of the period (e.g. in the ecology section, the Raunkiaer’s life forms were presented). The number of species grown increased over time, from 1,347 in 1923/1924 to approx. 2,800 in 1936/1937. Difficult weather conditions – the severe winter of 1928 as well as the snowless winter and the dry summer of 1933/34 contributed to the reduction of the collections. The ground collections, destroyed by flood in spring of 1931, were restored in subsequent years. Initially, the source of plant material was the wild plant species collected during field trips. Many specimens were also obtained from other botanical gardens, such as Warsaw and Cracow (Kraków). Beginning from 1923, printed catalogues of seeds offered for exchange were published (cf. the list on p. ... ). Owing to that, the Garden began to participate in the national and international plant exchange networks. From its inception, the collection of the Garden was used for teaching purposes, primarily to the students of the University, as well as for the botanical education of schoolchildren and the general public, particularly of the residents of Vilna. Scientific experiments on phytopathology were conducted on the Garden’s plots. After Vilna was incorporated into Lithuania in October 1939, the Lithuanian authorities shut down the Stefan Batory University, thus ending the history of the Polish Botanic Garden. Its area is now one of the sections of the Vilnius University Botanic Garden (“Vingis” section – Vilniaus universiteto botanikos sodas). In 1964, its area was extended to 7.35 hectares. In 1974, after establishing the new Botanic Garden in Kairenai to the east of Vilnius, the old Garden lost its significance. Nevertheless, it still serves the students and townspeople of Vilnius, and its collections of flowering plants are often used to decorate and grace the university halls during celebrations.
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Peña, J. C., L. Schulte, A. Badoux, M. Barriendos, and A. Barrera-Escoda. "Influence of solar forcing, climate variability and modes of low-frequency atmospheric variability on summer floods in Switzerland." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 19, no. 9 (September 10, 2015): 3807–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-3807-2015.

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Abstract. The higher frequency of severe flood events in Switzerland in recent decades has given fresh impetus to the study of flood patterns and their possible forcing mechanisms, particularly in mountain environments. This paper presents a new index of summer flood damage that considers severe and catastrophic summer floods in Switzerland between 1800 and 2009, and explores the influence of external forcings on flood frequencies. In addition, links between floods and low-frequency atmospheric variability patterns are examined. The flood damage index provides evidence that the 1817–1851, 1881–1927, 1977–1990 and 2005–present flood clusters occur mostly in phase with palaeoclimate proxies. The cross-spectral analysis documents that the periodicities detected in the coherency and phase spectra of 11 (Schwabe cycle) and 104 years (Gleissberg cycle) are related to a high frequency of flooding and solar activity minima, whereas the 22-year cyclicity detected (Hale cycle) is associated with solar activity maxima and a decrease in flood frequency. The analysis of low-frequency atmospheric variability modes shows that Switzerland lies close to the border of the principal summer mode. The Swiss river catchments situated on the centre and southern flank of the Alps are affected by atmospherically unstable areas defined by the positive phase of the pattern, while those basins located in the northern slope of the Alps are predominantly associated with the negative phase of the pattern. Furthermore, a change in the low-frequency atmospheric variability pattern related to the major floods occurred over the period from 1800 to 2009; the summer principal mode persists in the negative phase during the last cool pulses of the Little Ice Age (1817–1851 and 1881–1927 flood clusters), whereas the positive phases of the mode prevail during the warmer climate of the last 4 decades (flood clusters from 1977 to present).
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Peña, J. C., L. Schulte, A. Badoux, M. Barriendos, and A. Barrera-Escoda. "Influence of solar forcing, climate variability and atmospheric circulation patterns on summer floods in Switzerland." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 11, no. 12 (December 19, 2014): 13843–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hessd-11-13843-2014.

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Abstract. The higher frequency of severe flood events in Switzerland in recent decades has given fresh impetus to the study of flood patterns and their possible forcing mechanisms, particularly in mountain environments. This paper presents an index of summer flood damage that considers severe and catastrophic summer floods in Switzerland between 1800 and 2009, and explores the influence of solar and climate forcings on flood frequencies. In addition, links between floods and low-frequency atmospheric circulation patterns are examined. The flood damage index provides evidence that the 1817–1851, 1881–1927, 1977–1990 and 2005–present flood clusters occur mostly in phase with palaeoclimate proxies. The cross-spectral analysis documents that the periodicities detected in the coherency and phase spectra of 11 (Schwabe cycle) and 104 years (Gleissberg cycle) are related to a high frequency of flooding and solar activity minima, whereas the 22 year cyclicity detected (Hale cycle) is associated with solar activity maxima and a decrease in flood frequency. The analysis of atmospheric circulation patterns shows that Switzerland lies close to the border of the summer principal mode: the Summer North Atlantic Oscillation. The Swiss river catchments situated on the centre and southern flank of the Alps are affected by atmospherically unstable areas defined by the positive phase of the Summer North Atlantic Oscillation pattern, while those basins located in the northern slope of the Alps are predominantly associated with the negative phase of the pattern. Furthermore, a change in the low-frequency atmospheric circulation pattern related to the major floods occurred over the period from 1800 to 2009: the Summer North Atlantic Oscillation persists in negative phase during the last cool pulses of the Little Ice Age (1817–1851 and 1881–1927 flood clusters), whereas the positive phases of SNAO prevail during warmer climate of the last four decades (flood clusters from 1977 to present).
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EVANS, DAVID. "Bessie Smith's ‘Back-Water Blues’: the story behind the song." Popular Music 26, no. 1 (January 2006): 97–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143007001158.

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‘Back-Water Blues’, composed by Bessie Smith and recorded by her on 17 February 1927, has long been associated in the popular mind and even by some writers with the great flood of the lower Mississippi River and its tributaries that occurred that year. This is historically problematical because that flood began two months after Smith recorded her song. Through an examination of Smith's touring itinerary, the testimony of fellow entertainers who toured with her, newspaper reports, and other documents, it can be shown that the song was composed about a flood of the Cumberland River that struck Nashville, Tennessee, on Christmas morning, 1926. The lyrics of the song are interpreted with respect to the events of that flood.
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Bergman, Jonathan C. "The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History." Journal of American History 104, no. 4 (March 1, 2018): 1053–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jax506.

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Bearden, Russell E. "The Great Flood of 1927: A Portfolio of Photographs." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 61, no. 4 (2002): 388. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40022647.

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Smith, James A., and Mary Lynn Baeck. "“Prophetic vision, vivid imagination”: The 1927 Mississippi River flood." Water Resources Research 51, no. 12 (December 2015): 9964–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015wr017927.

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Nasar-u-Minallah, Muhammad. "Geo Spatial Assessment of Flood Hazard in Jhang District, Pakistan." Journal of Basic & Applied Sciences 13 (November 8, 2017): 577–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1927-5129.2017.13.93.

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Randolph, Ned. "River Activism, “Levees-Only” and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927." Media and Communication 6, no. 1 (February 9, 2018): 43–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i1.1179.

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This article investigates media coverage of 19th and early 20th century river activism and its effect on federal policy to control the Mississippi River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ “levees-only” policy—which joined disparate navigation and flood control interests—is largely blamed for the Great Flood of 1927, called the largest peacetime disaster in American history. River activists organized annual conventions, and later, professional lobbies organized media campaigns up and down the Mississippi River to sway public opinion and pressure Congress to fund flood control and river navigation projects. Annual river conventions drew thousands of delegates such as plantation owners, shippers, bankers, chambers of commerce, governors, congressmen, mayors and cabinet members with interests on the Mississippi River. Public pressure on Congress successfully captured millions of federal dollars to protect property, drain swamps for development, subsidize local levee districts and influence river policy.
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Niebling, William, Jonathan Baker, Laila Kasuri, Sarah Katz, and Kim Smet. "Challenge and response in the Mississippi River Basin." Water Policy 16, S1 (March 1, 2014): 87–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2014.005.

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This paper discusses the historic and contemporary challenges in the management of the lower Mississippi River Basin, and describes the evolving role of the federal government in addressing these challenges. In the early eighteenth century, the federal government was responsible for maintaining a navigable channel. After repeated calls by states for federal assistance with flood control and a devastating flood in 1927, the federal government additionally became the primary body responsible for protecting the Delta from floods. Although the resulting flood control system provided greater protection, it also brought new challenges, such as an increasingly large hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico, land subsidence in southern Louisiana and water quality issues. The confluence of these environmental concerns and changing national values have once again broadened the scope of federal responsibility to include environmental management and ecosystem restoration, along with its original involvement in navigation and flood control. This triad of responsibility carries with it often-competing objectives that must be balanced within legal and institutional constraints, most notably a deficit of available funding for inland waterway projects and what appears to be a lack of political will for continued investment in the maintenance of existing and development of new projects.
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vincent, renee. "Weathering the Storm: Black Maternal Mortality, Resistance, and Power in Richard Wright’s “Down by The Riverside,” Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2708.

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Representations of natural disasters in Black Southern literature identify social location as the greatest indicator of risk vulnerability. Moreover, they can expose the precarious subjectivity of the Black female reproductive body, as addressed through characters Lulu in Richard Wright’s “Down by the Riverside,” Janie in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Jesmyn Ward’s Esch in Salvage the Bones. Together, these female characters share a legacy of social marginalization and Black female resistance that is (re)shaped through their experiences with ecological catastrophe. This thesis considers these three texts together as an ongoing testimony and as a means to bear witness to a socio-historical record of disaster oppression and Black female resistance.
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Šandová, Markéta. "Dopady záplav 1997 a 2002 a vichřic na české pojišťovnictví." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-11516.

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This thesis is focused on the floods that hit the Czech Republic in 1997 and 2002 and on the storms. It deals with the risk of floods and storms, flood control, insurance products, role of insurance companies in coverage of flood and storm risk. It considers the changes that have occured in the czech insurance market after the floods and storms.
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Aulbach, John Joseph. "Flood damage reduction techniques for wastewater treatment facilities." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/91078.

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Wastewater treatment facilities, due to design practices and physical location, may be highly vulnerable to flooding. The implementation of flood proofing and flood damage reduction measures can reduce the economic losses and environmental impacts of a flood. Effective training and guidance is currently unavailable from the Virginia regulatory agencies. The Commonwealth of Virginia Sewerage Regulations contain the fundamental principle of avoiding construction within the 100-year flood plain. However, information is not included to discuss flood damage reduction measures or flood protective design standards. The Division of Water Programs within the Virginia Department of Health currently has an internal memorandum to govern their response to flood damaged facilities. The memorandum is general in nature with a limited discussion of assistance to wastewater treatment facilities. Specific flood damage reduction training is currently unavailable within the Virginia Department of Health. This research is intended to provide the necessary material to a) update current regulations and b) establish the basis of a training manual for use during presentations, seminars, and daily activity of regulatory engineers.
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Adkins, Henry Clay. "The Great Appalachian Flood of 1977: Prisoners, Labor, and Community Perceptions in Wise, Virginia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104018.

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The Great Appalachian Flood of 1977 was a historic flood that killed over 100 people, damaged nearly 1,500 homes, and displaced almost 30,000 Appalachian residents. The flood lasted from April 2nd to April 5th, 1977 affecting southwestern Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and eastern Tennessee. This project focuses on the disaster relief efforts by the incarcerated population of Wise County Correctional Facility, commonly known as Unit 18, in Wise, Virginia. This project utilized locally produced primary sources known as the Mountain Community Television interviews. These interviews were archived online through the Appalshop Archives in Whitesburg, Kentucky. The Mountain Community Television interviews used for this project were recorded three to four weeks following the early April flood in Wise by media activists and volunteers. The reporters interviewed incarcerated men from Unit 18, the administrative staff and correctional officers at Unit 18, local business owners, and residential community members of Wise. This article examines how the community of Wise, Virginia reacted to the disaster relief efforts in the community. The disaster relief work performed by Unit 18 inmates in the aftermath of the 1977 flood exemplifies a growing reliance on prison laborers in central Appalachia specifically, and rural America more generally. The majority of residential community members in Wise expressed NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) attitudes toward the prison facility and incarcerated population at Unit 18. On the other hand, local business owners who directly benefited from disaster relief work and prison labor changed their opinions about Unit 18 inmates. This project details how the April flood influenced local business owners to move from "Not In My Backyard" to an expanding reliance on incarcerated labor. Most of the Wise community retained NIMBY perceptions about Unit 18 and the incarcerated population after the April flood relief efforts excluding local business owners, a small but important sect of the Wise population. The article concludes by examining Unit 18 inmates' reflections on their labor, wages, and the rehabilitation programs at the Wise County Correctional Facility in the late 1970s.
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In 1977, a catastrophic flood impacted the central Appalachian region of the United States. This flood later became known as the "Great Appalachian Flood of 1977." The flood primarily affected small towns and rural communities in southwestern Virginia, eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and southern West Virginia. Disaster relief efforts in the aftermath of the flood varied across the region causing regional activists to criticize the government's relief efforts. In Wise, Virginia imprisoned men from Wise Correctional Facility Unit 18 volunteered to help the local community in their time of need. This project pays direct attention to Wise, VA community members' changed or solidified opinions about the local prison population at Wise Correctional Unit 18. The writing examines how Unit 18 prisoners viewed their role in the Wise community, their labor and wages, and the different approaches to prisoner rehabilitation. This project uses primary sources from the Appalshop Archives labeled as the Mountain Community Television interviews. In the late 1970s, Mountain Community Television interviewers were a group of local activists and volunteers that circulated broadcasts in southwestern Virginia. The Mountain Community Television interviews were conducted in the following weeks after the Great Appalachian Flood in Wise,Virginia. The interviews describe how local business owners of Wise and Unit 18 correctional administrators worked closely to change the working relationship between the community and the inmates at Unit 18. The vast majority of community members of Wise did not change their opinions about the location of the prison or the population of Unit 18 despite prisoners volunteering to help the community in the aftermath of the flood. On the other hand, the imprisoned population at Unit 18 advocated for more inclusion in the community with an expansion of educational and rehabilitative programs at the correctional facility after. This research is important because it highlights how rural communities and small towns contribute to mass incarceration in the United States. The project can be used to explain how Wise, Virginia directly, and central Appalachia generally, became an important landscape for the U.S. prison regime before the end of the twentieth century.
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Kalkert, Robert E. "Improving the vibrational performance of wood floor systems." Diss., This resource online, 1997. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10032007-172140/.

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Geaves, Linda Helen. "Public priorities and public goods : the drivers and responses to transitions in flood risk management." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6a5de60c-1920-403e-aaf7-0c8b8655edef.

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This thesis examines the role of the public in Flood Risk Management (FRM) service provision at a time when the perceptions of the distribution of benefits provided by FRM interventions are in flux, and the role the public should play in FRM highly contested among stakeholders. Two schemes have marked the revised role of the public in FRM - Partnership Funding and Flood Re - both of which challenge existing judgments of the excludability and rivalry of benefits delivered by FRM interventions. The Partnership Funding scheme allocates capital for FRM projects proportionately to the public benefits they provide, allowing communities to top-up grants through local contributions. In comparison, by increasing accessibility to affordable insurance through cross-subsidies and pricing signals, Flood Re highlights a growing recognition that the distribution of gains as a result of widespread insurance uptake is greater than the benefits received by the policyholder alone. Following the identification of these schemes, we tested their social feasibility, examining both the scale and distribution of benefits. Due to the different stages of implementation of each scheme at the time of writing this thesis, two distinct methods were developed. The Partnership Funding Chapter used field data to examine how public-private funding of flood defences has changed service provision and the public acceptance of this transition. Whereas the Flood Re chapter used computer-based experiments to hypothesize how Flood Re may make the purchase of insurance a more or less attractive investment for different types of consumer. We found that Partnership Funding enabled more FRM projects to go ahead, raised public awareness of flood risk, and improved collaboration between stakeholders, but encouraged lower-cost projects, which, in the longer term, could transfer the expense of managing residual risk to the householder. In comparison, Flood Re provided peace of mind to householders struggling to afford rises in insurance premiums, but disproportionately benefited those who annually purchased insurance. Combining this proposed inequity in Flood Re with increasing residual risks, we identify a gap in service provision for the public who cannot afford household mitigation measures. We propose that loss mitigation and flood defence should become increasingly collaborative in line with the complexities of flooding within a community. We seek a move away from the information asymmetry which currently exists between insurance providers and policyholders, and yet simultaneously call for local authorities to recognise the capacity of the public to participate in FRM, and sustain resilience in the face of rising flood risk.
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Simmons, Sarah. "The development of schooling in Floyd County, Virginia 1831-1900." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53659.

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This dissertation addresses the cultural, economic, and geographic factors that politically affected the development of schooling in Floyd County, located in southwest Virginia, from its formation in 1831 to the beginning of the twentieth century. Floyd County was formed in 1831 during Virginia's quasi-system of education. This quasi-system was created due to the "peopling" of early Virginia. Colonial Virginia provided educational opportunities for the rich and poor. The General Assembly, which was dominated by the planter-aristocrats, opposed state education. These aristocrats saw no reason to tax themselves for educational opportunities they would not patronize. As settlers of Swiss, German, and Scotch-Irish descent migrated into the backcountry of Virginia, they brought with them a desire for universal education. The conflicts between the eastern and western portion of the state resulted in the Literary Fund Act of 1818 which provided funds to educate Virginia's poor. The wealthy continued to educate their own with the middle class left to their own devices. This quasi-system of education lasted until the Civil War. At the end of the war, conservatives, still in control of the General Assembly, were forced to accept state supported education due to the Underwood Constitutional mandate. Separate schools for blacks and whites were begun under the state plan in 1870. By July 1876, Floyd County had 52 schools in operation; but this expansion faced ruin when the General Assembly used funds to pay off the state's debt. The debt issue split Virginians into two political camps, Funders and Readjusters. It was not until the Readjuster victory in the early 1880's that Virginia's state system began to stabilize. Political decisions continued to affect education in the late nineteenth century. District boards hired teachers and located schools for political and social reasons which were often tied to community loyalties. Superintendents licensed and examined teachers based on their own standards. The General Assembly denied teachers the right to meet during school terms. No public money could be used to finance their meetings. What education teachers did receive was financed by local efforts and Peabody funds. By the 1890's, over 4000 teachers in Virginia had not attended State Summer Normals. Floyd County had a higher percentage of teachers attending Normals due to its third superintendent bringing a Normal to Jacksonville in 1889. By 1900, schooling in Floyd County had survived its first 30 years, but with only partial success. Political entanglements, dating back over two centuries, had affected public education at the state and local level with the results that by the beginning of the twentieth century, half of the school age population in Virginia had never attended school.
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Cooley, Alexis Kirsten. "Detecting Change in Rainstorm Properties from 1977-2016 and Associated Future Flood Risks in Portland, Oregon." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3889.

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In response to increased greenhouse gases and global temperatures, changes to the hydrologic cycle are projected to occur and new precipitation characteristics are expected to emerge. The study of these characteristics is facilitated by common indices to measure precipitation and temperature developed by the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI). These indices can be used to describe the likely consequences of climate change such as increased daily precipitation intensity (SDII) and heavier rainfall events (R95p). This study calculates a subset of these indices from observed and modelled precipitation data in Portland, Oregon. Five rainfall gages from a high resolution rain gage network and projections from three downscaled global climate models including CanESM2, CESM1, CNRM-CM5 are used to calculate precipitation indices. Mann-Kendall's tau is used to detect monotonic trends in indices. The observational record is compared with models for the historic period (1977-2005) and these past trends are compared with projected future trends (2006-2100). The influence of study unit on trend detection is analyzed by computing trends at the annual and monthly scale. Study unit is shown to be important for trend detection. When the annual study unit is used, projected future trends towards increased precipitation intensity and event volumes are not observed in the historic data. However, when analyzed with a monthly study unit, trends towards increased precipitation intensity and event volumes are observed in the historic data. These trends are shown to be important for Portland area flooding, as precipitation indices are shown to significantly correlate with 40 maximum peak flow events that occurred during the period of study.
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Onen, Alper. "Analyses Of Flood Events Using Regional Hydrometeorological Modeling System." Master's thesis, METU, 2013. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615476/index.pdf.

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Extreme rainfall events and consequent floods are being observed more frequently in the Western Black Sea region in Turkey as climate changes. In this study, application of a flood early warning system is intended by using and calibrating a combined model system. A regional-scale hydro-meteorological model system, consisting of Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, NOAH land surface model and fully distributed NOAH-Hydro hydrologic models, is used for simulations of 25 heavy-rainfall and major flooding events observed in the Western Black Sea region between years 2000 and 2011. The performance of WRF model system in simulating precipitation is tested with 3-dimensional variational (3DVAR) data assimilation scheme. WRF-derived precipitation with and without data assimilation and Multi Precipitation Estimates (MPE) are used in NOAH-Hydro model to simulate streamflow for flood events. Statistical precipitation analyses show that WRF model with 3DVAR improved precipitation up to 12% with respect to no-assimilation. MPE algorithm generally underestimates rainfall and it also showed lower performance than WRF model with and without data assimilation. Depending on reliability of precipitation inputs, NOAH-Hydro model produces reasonable flood hydrographs both in structure and volume. After model calibration is performed using assimilated precipitation inputs in Bartin Basin, NOAH-Hydro model reduced the average error in streamflow by 23.24% and 53.57% with calibration for testing events. With calibrated parameters, NOAH-Hydro model forced by WRF non-assimilated precipitation input also reduced the error in streamflow but with lower rates (16.67% and 40.72%). With a proper model calibration and reliable precipitation inputs, hydrologic modeling system is capable of simulating flood events.
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Farris-Manning, Peter (Peter James) Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "Ice jam detection and flood monitoring using airborne synthetic aperture radar; Saint John River, New Brunswick, 1987." Ottawa, 1991.

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Books on the topic "Flood, 1927"

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Duey, Kathleen. Flood Mississippi, 1927: Survival! #5. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998.

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Kent, Deborah. The great Mississippi flood of 1927. New York: Children's Press, 2006.

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Conrad, Glenn R. Crevasse!: The 1927 flood in Acadiana. Lafayette, La: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southewestern Louisiana, 1994.

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Daniel, Pete. Deep'n as it come: The 1927 Mississippi River flood. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996.

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O'Daniel, Patrick. When the levee breaks: Memphis and the Mississippi Valley flood of 1927. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013.

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M, Barry John. Rising tide: The great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

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Clifford, Deborah Pickman. "The troubled roar of the waters": Vermont in flood and recovery, 1927-1931. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press, 2007.

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Yŏn'guwŏn, Han'guk Kŏnsŏl Kisul, ed. Kyŏngsŏng pugŭn suhae sirhwanggi (1925-yŏn). Kyŏnggi-do Kwach'ŏnsi: Kukt'o Haeyangbu, 2010.

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Jackson, K. Scott. Flood of March 1997 in southern Ohio. Columbus, Ohio: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1997.

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Jackson, K. Scott. Flood of March 1997 in southern Ohio. Columbus, Ohio: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1997.

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Book chapters on the topic "Flood, 1927"

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La Barbera, P., L. Lanza, F. Marzano, R. Minciardi, A. Mugnai, M. Paolucci, and F. Siccardi. "Multisensor Analysis of the Flood Event of November 23–25th, 1987 on the Arno Basin." In Floods and Flood Management, 389–404. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1630-5_25.

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Loster, Thomas. "Flood Disasters - Insurance Aspects Including the 1997 Odra Floods." In Flood Issues in Contemporary Water Management, 197–208. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4140-6_21.

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Bowering, R. J., and P. Eng. "Emergency Flood Control Operation During the 1997 Red River Flood." In Flood Issues in Contemporary Water Management, 293–301. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4140-6_30.

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Kubát, J. "1997/1998 Floods in the Czech Republic: Hydrological Evaluation." In Flood Issues in Contemporary Water Management, 25–39. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4140-6_3.

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Kutálek, Pavel, and Václav Košacký. "Damage Caused by the 1997 Floods, Its Repair and Proposed Alternatives of Flood Control Measures." In Flood Issues in Contemporary Water Management, 395–400. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4140-6_40.

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Szamalek, K. "The Great Flood of 1997 in Poland: The Truth and Myth." In Flood Issues in Contemporary Water Management, 67–74. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4140-6_7.

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van den Brink, Margo. "Rijkswaterstaat: Guardian of the Dutch Delta." In Guardians of Public Value, 237–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51701-4_10.

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AbstractFounded in 1798, Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch government’s agency for infrastructural works, brought flood security, navigable waterways and highways to the Netherlands. It is an iconic institution within Dutch society, best known for its ‘battle against the water’. The Zuiderzee Works (1920–1968) and the Delta Works (1954–1997) brought worldwide acclaim. This chapter tells the story of a humble semi-military organization that developed into a formidable institution of civil engineers with a strong technocratic mission mystique. It also recounts the institutional crisis the agency experienced in the 1970s–1990s when it was too slow to adapt to major sociocultural and political changes. To ride the waves of change, it eventually developed several proactive adaptation strategies and reinvented its mission mystique in managerial terms. Adaptation to climate change now presents another key challenge, for which Rijkswaterstaat will have to develop a new ‘social license to operate’.
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Bogdanska-Warmuz, Renata. "A Study of the Knowledge and Behavior of Brzesko Inhabitants After the Flood in 1997." In Coping With Flash Floods, 53–60. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0918-8_7.

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Zeman, E., and P. Bíza. "Modelling Tools — the Key Elements for Evaluation of Impacts of Anthropogenic Activities on Flood Generation, With Reference to the 1997 Morava River Flooding." In Flood Issues in Contemporary Water Management, 101–14. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4140-6_11.

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Niesche, Hartmut. "The Oder River Flood in Summer 1997 from Brandenburg’s Point of View." In Early Warning Systems for Natural Disaster Reduction, 289–303. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55903-7_38.

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Conference papers on the topic "Flood, 1927"

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WANG, YICHENG. "FLOOD PREVENSTION SYSTEMT AND FLOOD MANAGEMENT IN CHINA." In 38th IAHR World Congress. The International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3850/38wc092019-1924.

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Keasling, Robert D. "The 1997 Missouri River Flood That Did Not Occur." In Waterpower Conference 1999. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40440(1999)114.

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MOLDOVAN, Aurelian Cosmin, and Raul SILAGHI. "The Morphological Impact of the Colibița Hydrotehnical System on the Bistrita Ardeleana Riverbed." In Air and Water – Components of the Environment 2021 Conference Proceedings. Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/awc2021_08.

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Large dams, as well as conventional hydrotechnical constructions with the role of breaking the drainage slope (waterfalls or bottom sills), flood mitigation or with the role of protection against floods (shore defences) have a profound impact on the environment. Due to these constructions, the ecosystems on the Bistrița Ardeleană river have undergone changes or even established new ones. This paper wants to highlight the morphological changes of the Bistriţa riverbed by analysing the transversal profiles made between 1972 and 2015. The profiles were made in the flow measurement section at two hydrometric stations, one being located in the upstream part of the river basin and the other before the Bistrița river flows into the Șieu river. By comparing the results obtained from the profiles made before the Colibița hydrotechnical system was started or completed with the data obtained from the profiles after the commissioning of the Colibița hydropower plant, we managed to highlight that the Bistrița Ardeleană riverbed registered several negative effects in terms of morphologically both vertically and horizontally. We also found that the riverbed downstream of the dam there is a phenomenon called hydraulic paving.
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Doll, T. E. "Performance Data Through 1987 of the Isenhour Unit, Sublette County, Wyoming, Polymer-Augmented Alkaline Flood." In SPE Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/17801-ms.

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Tango, Gerard J., and Hassan B. Ali. "Full wave theoretic modeling of comparative performance of deep sea floor and subsea floor hydrophone and geophone sensors." In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 1987. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/1.1892128.

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Barton, D. L., and P. Tangyunyong. "Scanning Fluorescent Microthermal Imaging." In ISTFA 1997. ASM International, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.31399/asm.cp.istfa1997p0041.

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Abstract We have developed scanning fluorescent microthermal imaging (SFMI), a new failure analysis technique. The fluorescent microthennal imaging (FMI) technique has been used for over a decade in its original form [1-2]. FMI normally relies on the use of a cooled, slow-scan CCD camera and a flood beam fluorescence pump source, usually an ultraviolet arc lamp. Interest in FMI has grown greatly over the past few years [3-9] due largely to its unique combination of high spatial and thermal resolution. In this paper, we demonstrate that the existing infrastructure found on a scanning laser microscope (SLM) is capable of acquiring the necessary images for SFMI using its scanned laser source and a point detector. The implications ofthis work are significant in that now high spatial and thermal resolution images can be made using an SLM without the need of additional, expensive hardware.
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F. Harrison, P., A. P. Cockin, and R. C. Skinner. "The Design of a Miscible Gas Flood for the Wytch Farm Sherwood Reservoir." In IOR 1997 - 9th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201406780.

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Gupta, Aaron D. "Dynamic Elasto-Plastic Response of a Generic Vehicle Floor Model to Coupled Transient Loads." In ASME 1997 Design Engineering Technical Conferences. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc97/cie-4452.

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Abstract A dynamic elasto-plastic large displacement response analysis of the bottom floor of a generic vehicle hull model subjected to empirically obtained coupled blast and impact loads has been conducted using 3-D shell elements in the ADINA nonlinear dynamic finite-element analysis code. Although several simplifying assumptions are made regarding the structural model, material properties, and forcing functions, the investigation gives valuable insight into the nonlinear dynamic response behavior of a generic hull bottom floor to externally applied coupled blast and impact loads and provides an inexpensive method of evaluation of the structural integrity of modern vehicles subjected to spatially varying transient loads.
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Huang, Yii-Mei, and Kuo-Wen Dai. "Passive Vibration and Noise Control of a Fuselage With the Floor Effect." In ASME 1997 Design Engineering Technical Conferences. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc97/vib-3788.

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Abstract Using dynamic absorbers for reducing the vibration and the interior noise of an aircraft’s fuselage is studied. In this paper, the fuselage is modeled as a circular panel connected to a plate. The fuselage’s floor effect is considered herein via including the plate in the model. The source caused the vibration and the interior noise is a set of external pressures to the fuselage. Several dynamic absorbers are then attached to the fuselage for vibration and noise control. The dynamic response of the fuselage and its interior sound pressure are analytically formulated. From the numerical results, the absorbers are found to be effective in decreasing the vibration of the fuselage and the resultant interior acoustic pressure. Some general guidelines on absorber design are also suggested in the conclusions.
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Hirsche, Keith, Mike Batzle, Rosemary Knight, Zhijing Wang, Larry Mewhort, Rick Davis, and George Sedgwick. "Seismic monitoring of gas floods in carbonate reservoirs; From rock physics to field testing." In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 1997. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/1.1886163.

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Reports on the topic "Flood, 1927"

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Chimahusky, J. S. ,. Casteel, J. F. Design and implementation of a CO2 flood utilizing advanced reservoirs characterization and horizontal injection wells in a shallow shelf carbonate approaching water floods depletion: Technical progress report, January 1, 1997--March 31, 1997. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), May 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/566745.

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Cooley, Alexis. Detecting Change in Rainstorm Properties from 1977-2016 and Associated Future Flood Risks in Portland, Oregon. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.5777.

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White, Eugene. Anticipating the Stock Market Crash of 1929: The View from the Floor of the Stock Exchange. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12661.

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Grigg, R. B., D. S. Schechter, S. Chang, B. Guo, J. Tsau, and J. F. Casteel. Improved efficiency Of miscible CO[sub]2 floods and enhanced prospects for CO[sub]2 flooding heterogenous reservoirs: Quarterly technical progress report, January 1, 1997-March 31, 1997. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), May 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/567405.

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Grigg, R. B., and D. S. Schechter. Improved efficiency of miscible CO2 floods and enhanced prospects for CO2 flooding heterogeneous reservoirs. Final report, April 17, 1991--May 31, 1997. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), February 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/589228.

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Grigg, R. B., and D. S. Schechter. Improved efficiency of miscible CO{sub 2} floods and enhanced prospects for CO{sub 2} flooding heterogeneous reservoirs. Annual report, June 1, 1997--May 31, 1998. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), July 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/296671.

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Dollens, K. B., K. J. Harpole, E. G. Durrett, and J. S. Bles. Design and implementation of a CO{sub 2} flood utilizing advanced reservoir characterization and horizontal injection wells in a shallow shelf carbonate approaching waterflood depletion. Annual report, July 1, 1996--June 30, 1997. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), December 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/565406.

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Dunbar, Joseph, Amber Ensign, Nalini Torres, and Maureen Corcoran. Analysis and Comparison of Documented Seepage and Sand Boil Events on the Lower Mississippi River from 1937 to 2011. Volume 2, Occurrences of Seepage and Sand Boil Incidents During the 2011 Flood on Geology Maps. Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (U.S.), August 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/28475.

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Dunbar, Joseph, Amber Ensign, Nalini Torres, and Maureen Corcoran. Analysis and Comparison of Documented Seepage and Sand Boil Events on the Lower Mississippi River from 1937 to 2011. Volume 3, Occurrences of Seepage and Sand Boil Incidents During the 2011 Flood on Photo Maps. Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (U.S.), August 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/28478.

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Flood of April 1987 in Maine. US Geological Survey, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/wsp2424.

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