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All Saints flood, storm surge Holy Roman Empire: 1532 several thousands [citation needed] North Sea flood, storm surge Netherlands: 1703 2,000–10,000 Great Iran Flood: Iran: 1954 2,000–5,000 1: Morvi dam burst: India (Morvi, Gujarat) 1979 2,000–3,000 [citation needed] Mostaganem and Oran flood Algeria: 1927 2,000+ Bristol Channel floods
Ojibwe: Great Serpent and the Great Flood [7] Ojibwe: Manabozho and the Muskrat [7] Ojibwe: Waynaboozhoo and the Great Flood [7] Orowignarak (Alaska): "A great inundation, together with an earthquake, swept the land so rapidly that only a few people escaped in their skin canoes to the tops of the highest mountains." [12] Ottawa: The Great Flood [7]
A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primeval waters which appear in certain creation myths , as the flood waters are described as a measure for ...
Plato makes reference to great floods in several of his dialogues, including Timaeus, Critias, and Laws.In Timaeus (22) and in Critias (111–112) he describes the "great deluge of all", specifying the one survived by Deucalion and Pyrrha, as having been preceded by 9,000 years of history before the time of Solon, during the 10th millennium BCE.
A rare deluge of rain has created new lakes in the rolling sand dunes of parts of the Sahara, ... The Sahara is the world’s largest non-polar desert, stretching across 3.6 million square miles.
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 ...
Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, [1] [2] offers a description of the story surrounding how humanity was created by the gods, how the office of kingship entered human civilization, the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global flood.
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.