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A fire that started mid afternoon moved about 24km (14 miles) within four or five hours as the wind changed direction.
“It put up a column, punching into the atmosphere 14km (8 miles) high.
“These columns are generating their own weather.
“There's lightning coming out of these columns.
Australia Bushfires: Thousands Trapped in Ring of Fire After Ignoring Warnings to Flee | World | News | Express.co.uk
Brian Mcgleenon
#BREAKING As coronavirus vaccine distribution efforts gridlock across
the covid-blighted first world, African experts helping untangle the logistical mess propose the region consider distributing vaccines according to need and scientific advice instead of on the basis of wealth.
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Even though the new library was welcomed, many people worried that sharing books and being in close quarters could spread disease. The space was “cramped and inadequate . . . a menace to life,” according to the Los Angeles Herald. At the time, influenza, smallpox, and typhus were rampant in cities. One city official told the Los Angeles Times that anyone who checked out a book knowing someone in his or her family had a contagious disease was committing “nothing short of a crime.”
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
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