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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (210859)7/6/2007 1:12:35 AM
From: KLP  Respond to of 794001
 
Well Mq...Here's some grass for your pipe...Look back a couple hundred years for starters....Who are you going to blame for the worlds global cooling and warming when you start looking at history???

What happened in the Eastern States in 1816, and for the years around that time in many areas of the country????

Very few people in comparison to today. World-wide Volcanoes? What was the Sun doing?

Most interesting article....there are more ..

Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death
The Year There Was No Summer

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And many more besides these? Wonder if AlGore has read any of them???



1940s» 60-MILE WIND HERE BRINGS LOW OF 14; Snowdrifts Close Schools Up-State...
$4.95 - New York Times - Mar 19, 1941While New Yorkers complained about the continuation OF Winter's worst features, the American ... the minimum in Northern Vermont was degrees below zero. ...

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1950s» Art Tokle Wins Roosevelt Trophy In Ski Jumping at Bear Mountain; Also...
$4.95 - New York Times - Jan 8, 1951Tyler Soars 141 Feet Terry Tyler of Brattleboro, Vt., scored his most ... the snow and hail were at their worst, then sailed 141 Feet In the second round, ...

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… Bennington Evening Banner (Newspaper) - February 22, 1955,...
Subscription - Bennington Evening Banner - NewspaperArchive - Feb 22, 1955Temperatures as high as 100 de- grees Have been recorded at Fort Vukon, north of here. But it is The Winter That saps strength, immobilizes and kills. ...

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… Evening Banner, The (Newspaper) - December 13, 1956,...
Subscription - Bennington Evening Banner - NewspaperArchive - Dec 13, 1956... game Ser Vice up lo b'ac 6 WINTER TUN The Vermont outdoors In WINTER taket, ... at voui bi'bt and worst your wife mother bartender Naturally their lists ...

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… Evening Banner, The (Newspaper) - February 4, 1957,...
Subscription - Bennington Evening Banner - NewspaperArchive - Feb 4, 1957See The 'Buy of The week' On DISPLAY AT The Vermont BAXK and TKDST CO. ... In The Laurentian Mountains yes- terday, legislators visited A winter resort and ...

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Bennington Evening Banner (Newspaper) - February 17, 1958, Bennington,...
Subscription - Bennington Evening Banner - NewspaperArchive - Feb 17, 1958Lebanon, NH, recorded 55 Inches of show on the ground w'tiiie Boston and ... PHIL SAVORY the "old fashioned" winter has returned To Vermont as all records ...

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1960s» Bennington Evening Banner (Newspaper) - March 4, 1960, Bennington,...
Subscription - Bennington Evening Banner - NewspaperArchive - Mar 4, 1960Ten inches and 12 degree temperatures were recorded in southern Vermont last night, ... Tersej making it OIK of The worst Storm o The State in years. ...

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17-INCH SNOW PARALYZES CITY; MAYOR DECLARES EMERGENCY; STORM TIES UP...
$4.95 - New York Times - Feb 5, 1961THE STORM, THE third great one OF THE winter Here, de posited 17.4 inches OF SNOW i ... northern Vermont and New Hampshire and Most OF Maine were spared, ...

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Bennington Banner (Newspaper) - March 15, 1962, Bennington, Vermont
Subscription - Bennington Banner - NewspaperArchive - Mar 15, 1962record Snowfall the winter of '60-'61 was one tiie grandchildren a couple o: ... It was the city's worst winter n 39 years, except for the winter f '47-'48 ...

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CROPS IN FLORIDA DAMAGED BY COLD; Vegetables Hurt by Frost --...
$4.95 - New York Times - Jan 19, 1965Atlanttc City recorded 3 below, and Salisbury, IN southeastern Maryland, ... lows around the nation this ; ;morning included 15 below IN Newport, Vt., ...

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (210859)7/6/2007 1:18:20 AM
From: KLP  Respond to of 794001
 
Plus, Mq.....Better take a looksee at Wiki too....A fireworks event (also called a fireworks show) is a spectacular display of the effects produced by firework devices on various occasions. Fireworks competitions are also regularly held at a number of places. The biggest fireworks event in the world is held in Madeira, Portugal at the New Years' Eve celebrations, as referred in the Guinness World Records.

Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Cultural contexts
2 Fireworks in America
3 Competitions
3.1 World Pyro Olympics
3.2 Montreal Fireworks Festival
3.3 HSBC Celebration of Light in Vancouver
3.4 Macau International Fireworks Display Contest
3.5 GlobalFest International Fireworks Competition
3.6 Firework Champions, UK
3.7 National Pyrotechnics Fair of Tultepec, Mexico
3.8 Tarragona International Fireworks Displays Competition, Spain
4 Major events
4.1 Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain
4.2 Thrissur Pooram fireworks, India
4.3 U.S. Independence Day
4.4 Canada Day
4.5 Thunder Over Louisville
4.6 New Year's Eve
4.7 Diwali ('Festival of Lights') in India
4.8 Maltese Petards
4.9 PGI Annual Convention
4.10 Halloween
5 Types
5.1 Consumer fireworks (1.4G, UN0336)*
5.2 Display fireworks (1.3G, UN0335) or (1.1G, UN0333)*
6 Laws and politics
6.1 Safety of consumer fireworks in USA
6.2 Safety of commercial and display fireworks in Canada
6.3 Pollution
6.4 Laws governing consumer fireworks
6.4.1 United States
6.4.2 Other countries
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links