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  2. Indian Armed Forces and the 2014 Jammu and Kashmir floods

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    There was no warning of the heavy rain or the floods. The people, the state and the armed forces in the area, were caught unaware by the 2014 floods.None of the Federal or the State Government agencies responsible for monitoring natural disasters and providing early warning, such as [a] Floods -Central Water Commission [b] Landslide hazard – Geological Survey of India (GSI) [c] Avalanche ...

  3. Civilization VI - Wikipedia

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    The expansion added, among other features, impacts from natural disasters like floods, volcanoes, and droughts that affect gameplay. Additionally, a new climate system was added to track climate change throughout the player's game, with the potential for additional environmental effects to result from this. Existing civilizations and leaders ...

  4. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    Imagination magazine cover, depicting an atomic explosion, dated March 1954. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; natural, such as an impact event; man made, such as nuclear holocaust; medical, such as a plague or virus, whether natural or man-made; religious, such as the Rapture or Great Tribulation; or imaginative, such as zombie apocalypse or alien invasion.

  5. Plague (disease) - Wikipedia

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    The natural foci of plague are situated in a broad belt in the tropical and sub-tropical latitudes and the warmer parts of the temperate latitudes around the globe, between the parallels 55° N and 40° S. [18] Contrary to popular belief, rats did not directly start the spread of the bubonic plague.

  6. Tenerife airport disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Tenerife airport disaster [c] occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport [1] ...

  7. Chaos theory - Wikipedia

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    Natural forms (ferns, clouds, mountains, etc.) may be recreated through an iterated function system (IFS). James Clerk Maxwell first emphasized the "butterfly effect", and is seen as being one of the earliest to discuss chaos theory, with work in the 1860s and 1870s. [57] [58] [59] An early proponent of chaos theory was Henri Poincaré.

  8. Singapore - Wikipedia

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    The highest natural point is Bukit Timah Hill at 163.63 m (537 ft). [295] Under British rule, Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands were part of Singapore, and both were transferred to Australia in 1957. [296] [297] [298] Pedra Branca is the nation's easternmost point. [299]

  9. Half-Life (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Half-Life is a first-person shooter that requires the player to perform combat tasks and puzzle solving to advance through the game. Unlike most first-person shooters at the time, which relied on cut-scene intermissions to detail their plotlines, Half-Life ' s story is told mostly using scripted sequences (bar one short cutscene), keeping the player in control of the first-person viewpoint.