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		<title>Snapshots: The Great Flood of 1914</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intersection of Ludlow and Barnham Streets, in the city&#8217;s Northside section, during the Great Flood of 1914. The late-January flood was a result of an unseasonable warm spell dumping the melted remains of the Great Blizzard of 1914 (which itself had also indirectly led to the Cronin &#38; Sons sawdust factory explosion) into the already swollen banks of the Ostahanoc River. The flood, plus the Great Downtown Fire of 1911, the Great Carsonhurst Tornado of 1912, the Great Tin-Cart Riots of Late 1913 and the deaths of two mayors from a flu epidemic in late 1914, helped to cement city&#8217;s reputation as a center for disaster and instability that would last for years. - RJ White]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Graffiti, Flying Ravioli, Native Alabamans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Adelmorst is the longest city street name with all the letters in alphabetical order. :: Authorities still do not know who has been heavily tagging numerous Downtown, Central Corridor and Northside buildings with the phrase &#8220;Rock-n-Roll&#8221; over the last two months. :: Number of barriers erected in the West Sugar neighborhood to prevent speedy &#8220;cut through&#8221; traffic: 14 :: Decrease in traffic infractions since barriers were erected last fall: 16 percent :: Estimated damage as a result of the Sorini Refrigerated Macaroni truck driving through one of the barriers during a high-speed police chase, precipitated by a 14-month investigation into possible sales of &#8220;bad macaroni&#8221; to neighborhood children: $42,364 :: Cost to restore Stanley Hodges&#8217; At Rainbow&#8217;s Edge (1972), a massive &#8220;elliptico Marxist&#8221; sculpture destroyed by the Sorini truck: $0 (&#8220;I will not let some macaroni shyster destroy the statement I bestowed upon West Sugar more than 30 years ago,&#8221; Hodges tells The City Desk. &#8221; At Rainbow&#8217;s Edge will rise from the ashes on that solemn spot.&#8221;) :: Of the 119 city residents killed or missing in action in the U.S. Civil War, all but two were fighting on the Union side. :: 6.5 oz Coca Cola at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Unlucky No. 13, Powerless</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/07/13/friday-facts-unlucky-no-13-powerless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Northside residents can expect an extra unlucky Friday the 13th today, as electrical power will be cut off for up to two hours in order to repair a transformer on the corner of Garrick Ave. and Riggins Rd. The device was damaged June 26 by would-be bank robber Kevin Sturgiss when he hijacked a city bus and drove it against traffic during rush hour in an effort to evade the National Guard roadblock set up on Clark St. :: Number of buildings Downtown which skip the 13th in their floor numbering: 2 (The Ansfield Meats Tower, The Walker Consolidated Bldg.) :: Duration of Tuesday&#8217;s partial power outage, affecting the Central Corridor/Downtown, Keets Harbor, North Falls and Roxboro areas: 5 hours, 33 minutes :: Number of times the entire city has suffered a complete electrical power ‘blackout’: 3 (1967, 1987, 2003) :: Number of times the blackout originated inside the city: 1 (1987) :: Number of raccoons electrocuted in a centrally-located transformer leading to 1987&#8242;s city-wide blackout: at least 1, possibly 2 :: Amount of electricity needed to kill approximately 2 raccoons: definitely less than 22,000 volts - David Andrews, Shek Baker, RJ White]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Delays, Tags, Dial Tones</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/07/06/friday-facts-delays-tags-dial-tones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: This year&#8217;s Fourth of July fireworks display has been moved to Saturday, at 9pm, at Founder&#8217;s Pier. :: Number of times throughout the years that the City&#8217;s fireworks display has been postponed due to the weather: 7 :: Estimated boost in attendance this will bring to the Lithuanian Pride Festival, which had already been scheduled to take place Saturday night at Founder&#8217;s Pier: 215% :: Estimated damage to private and public property caused by the well-known tagger &#8220;Joey Ballgame&#8221;: $125,000 :: Rumored leading candidates for Ballgame&#8217;s true identity: Shamed former Deputy Police Chief Andrew Hotel, tenth-grade French teacher Jane Kapitzky, tenth-grader Lowell Thomas (Kapitzky&#8217;s rumored secret lover). :: Joey Ballgame&#8217;s primary neighborhood of activity: The working-class neighborhood surrounding the underground mansion at Sutter&#8217;s Hill. Street lore has it that Ballgame&#8217;s ultimate goal is to tag the home&#8217;s sealed bottom four floors. :: Northsiders who&#8217;ve suffered spotty telephone service these last four days can thank local newsmaker Kevin Sturgiss (Wonsley High Class of &#8217;86). An unexploded grenade hurled by Sturgiss during his June 26 bank robbery misadventure lodged under the door of a telephone switch box on Garrick Ave. until it was discovered by several Hilworth Junior High students after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: It Isn&#8217;t Surprising, the Temperature&#8217;s Rising</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/06/29/friday-facts-it-isnt-surprising-the-temperatures-rising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Five of the seven warmest temperatures ever recorded in the city occurred in the current millennium. The other two were in 1988 and 1889. :: If there is a dearth of hot-weather favorite Fla-Vor-Ice at your local Northside market this weekend, blame erstwhile machine operator Kevin Sturgiss. A Jel-Sert delivery truck carrying over 2300 tubes of the cold, sugary treat was destroyed during Sturgiss&#8217; lengthy botched bank robbery (and subsequent hostage crisis, police stand-off and eruption of vigilante justice) Tuesday on Garrick Ave. :: Forms required to obtain a carriage-driver&#8217;s license for the City&#8217;s parks: 12, not including those related to the written and driving tests. :: Forms required to obtain a hack license to drive a cab in the City: 3, including those related to the written and driving tests. :: Warmest surface water temperature recorded at 17th Street Pier: 31 C, 87.8 F (2002). :: Most ironic triple bill at the Founder’s Day Film Festival on a day where the high temperature reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit: August 5, 2002: In the Heat of the Night (1967), Body Heat (1981), Sahara (1943). :: All the traffic lights around town controlled by motion sensors bear a sign reading, &#8220;Activate [...]]]></description>
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