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  2. Genesis flood narrative - Wikipedia

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    The Flood of Noah and Companions (c. 1911) by Léon Comerre. The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. [1] It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre-creation state of watery chaos and remake it through the microcosm of Noah's ark.

  3. Local flood theory - Wikipedia

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    The Flood of Noah and Companions (c. 1911) by Léon Comerre. Musée d'Arts de Nantes.. The local flood theory (also known as the limited flood theory) is an interpretation of the Genesis flood narrative where the flood of Noah is interpreted as a local event, generally located in Mesopotamia, instead of a global event.

  4. Flood geology - Wikipedia

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    Flood geology (also creation geology or diluvial geology) is a pseudoscientific attempt to interpret and reconcile geological features of the Earth in accordance with a literal belief in the Genesis flood narrative, the flood myth in the Hebrew Bible.

  5. Flood of 1936: How Potomac River flooding devastated ... - AOL

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    Edison power plant in Williamsport, Maryland, after the March 18, 1936 flood, surrounded by water from the Potomac River. The facility later became the R. Paul Smith Power Station.

  6. Gilgamesh flood myth - Wikipedia

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    The Gilgamesh flood tablet 11 (XI) contains additional story material besides the flood. The flood story was included because in it, the flood hero Utnapishtim is granted immortality by the gods and that fits the immortality theme of the epic. The main point seems to be that Utnapishtim was granted eternal life in unique, never-to-be-repeated ...

  7. Five years ago, ice jams caused a momentous flood in ... - AOL

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    March 14, 2019, went down in Fond du Lac history as among the worst flooding events. Five years later, here's what happened and how the city recovered.

  8. List of flood myths - Wikipedia

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    When the flood destroys the world, Manu – in some versions accompanied by the seven great sages – survives by boarding the ark, which Matsya pulls to safety. Norbert Oettinger argues that the story originally was about Yama , but that he was replaced by his brother Manu due to the social context of the authorship of the Shatapatha Brahmana.

  9. 30 years ago today, the Great Chicago Flood stunned the ... - AOL

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    Although the flood on April 13, 1992, was mainly out of sight, lurking 40 feet below the city’s streets, it wreaked visible havoc. The Great Chicago Flood paralyzed downtown — shutting down ...