The sinking of Venice slowed after artesian wells were banned in the 1960s, but the city remains threatened by the acqua alta floods. |
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High tide, the notorious acqua alta, had been predicted, but, following the lead of Italian seismologists, the weathermen had calamitously underestimated. |
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Subsidence, the gradual lowering of the surface of Venice, has led to the seasonal Acqua alta when much of the city's surface is occasionally covered at high tide. |
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One small lot of specimens from Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, exhibited moderately rounded, well-developed octahedra. |
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The team now qualifies as the number one seed for the Provincial Championships, Aug. 6-8, in St. Albert, Alta. |
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Feeling energetic still, I jogged down to Alta lake just as a lucent sun lay half hidden behind a three-thousand foot mountain. |
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The 130,000 people in Chincha Alta live in a world of unpaved streets, windowless huts and open sewers. |
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Site Match is a new paid inclusion program which meshes the Alta, Ink, and Universal Web paid inclusion programs. |
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One game that stands out in his mind was a bantam championship match-up in Lac La Biche, Alta. |
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Alta Exports International will support the Russian purchasers following the arrival of the cattle with training and advice on livestock management and nutrition. |
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By late morning the next day, Alta Moda clients were making their unmistakable presence felt in Portofino's cobblestoned piazza. |
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With no outside employees, Brian Trueblood of Dapp, Alta. produces grains, oilseeds and some pedigreed seed. |
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But it was his chronic asthma that defined his childhood, forcing the family to move to the dry climate of Alta Gracia, a small spa town near Cordoba. |
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After spending some time in Fort McMurray, Alta., with his wife, Carol, he found himself moving to a community with a unique claim to fame. |
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Fifth year veteran, Jill Wheat of Marwayne, Alta., was Queen's top rebounder tallying 11 including nine defensive boards. |
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Some time during her earlier years, Ellen went to Alta to perfect her knowledge of the Norwegian language, and to learn home economics and sewing. |
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Two canola crushing plants, one in Velva, N. D., and the other in Lloydminster, Alta. |
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Multi-talented, she excelled at numerous high school sports in Pincher Creek, Alta., and was a five-time All-Canadian at the University of Saskatchewan, specializing in heptathlon, 800 metres, and 400 metre hurdles. |
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In 2007, Alta Cucina in Alto Adige won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best food photography in Italy, and Locks was named best photography book of antiques by a jury at TEFAF, the world's leading arts and antique fair. |
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Edna Fairweather moved in 1932 with her parents, Letitia May and William Stewart Fairweather and sister, Grace, to Killam, Alta. |
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On Monday, city officials declared a local state of emergency, and 33 homes were ordered evacuated along Thurber Street and Burbank's Via Alta. |
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The Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. |
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As a result, the opposition in the Alta controversy brought attention to not only environmental issues but also the issue of Sami rights. |
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At Punta Alta he made a major find of gigantic fossils of extinct mammals, then known from only a very few specimens. |
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The Nossa Senhora da Penha Matrix Church Located on Pero de Campos Tourinho Square, in Cidade Alta, it was built at the end of the 18th century. |
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He used a fantastic final flip turn and beat Alta Loma senior Jeff Larson to the finish by a half-second. |
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The majority of the 1,000 Hispanic families living in Alta California stayed there, though some moved south to remain inside Mexico. |
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Some of these bastions are still standing, like the bastions of Coraza Alta, Bandera and Mallorquines. |
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He has been in the tree care business for many years and is the owner of the For Trees Co. a Didsbury, Alta. located arboricultural company and 30 acre tree farm. |
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In 2008-2009 ALTA MANE supported the art therapy activities on the children's psychiatric ward in the HUG Children's Hospital in Geneva by covering part of the annual cost of an art therapist. |
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It's unexpected, then, that Léauté would go on to help invent a process that is revolutionizing the way resources are recovered from the oil sands in Cold Lake, Alta. |
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The National Flag Park in which the monument is located is a great starting point for a walking tour of the city center, including Costa Alta and the Embarcadero Resort. |
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The Cahabon parish, where I live, in the Province of Alta Verapaz, is made up of 137 villages, the most distant one being eight hours' walk from the centre of the parish which is run by two foreign priests. |
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Marcel Laboucane, a civilian from neighbouring Vermillion, Alta., displays guarded excitement after scoring two straight from the free throw line. |
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Once known as the new frontier in yachting, Marina Alta is quickly becoming the playground for the rich and famous with mooring rates jumping to some of the highest in Europe. |
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During a visit there, she took her family to Alta Vista, a nearby mountain village in Nayarit state. |
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Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alta. has rejected a mediator's recommendations for a collective agreement with workers and is instead asking for a vote by workers on its own contract offer. |
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Captains Joel Maley and Claire De Repentigny, from 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron in Edmonton, Alta., lined up to race in the 2010 Great White North Triathlon. |
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Main objectives The project, which is an integral part of the IP3, will help to guarantee links between the Beira Alta region, the port of Figueira da Foz and the border town of Vila Verde de Raia. |
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High-ranking officials will be present at the signing of the contract with Alta, a Czech company, to deliver equipment for the OAO Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine. |
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From Alta, guests can travel to Hammerfest, which is thought to be the most northerly town in the world. |
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The parish church of Dois Portas in the Alta Extremadura region, to the north of Lisbon and near the Atlantic, is one of the few in this vast area to have retained its Mudéjar ceiling. |
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A graduate of Wycliffe College, Toronto, he served in parishes in Lethbridge, Fort Macleod, and Brocket, Alta. |
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The KELT detector is an Apogee Instruments Alta U16 thermoelectrically cooled CCD camera. |
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The brands are Alta Rica, Alta Rica Decaff, Cap Colombie, Suraya and Espresso, all in 100-gr. |
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Elbert has been named the recipient of the Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women's 2010 Alta May Hulett Award. |
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The couple live at Embarass Portage, a remote area north of Fort McMurray, Alta. |
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The Q'eqchi' live in lowland areas of Alta Vera Paz, Peten, and Western Belize. |
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The Alta controversy started in the 1970s when Statkraft planned to dam the Alta River. |
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Xenoliths in granodiorite of the Alta Stock, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. |
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Both the mission system and the presidios had collapsed after the Spanish withdrew from the colony, causing great disruption especially in Alta California and New Mexico. |
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State officials and ski industry experts say the conservative antichange mentality at Alta was partly forged by the same geography that produces avalanches. |
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Next stop is Alta in Finnmark, Norway for another overnight stay. |
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From 1769 until the independence of Mexico in 1820, Spain sent missionaries and soldiers to Alta California who created a series of missions operated by Franciscan priests. |
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For the next 25 years Alta California remained as a remote, sparsely populated, northwestern administrative district of the newly independent country of Mexico. |
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