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Initially entered 30th of December 2013 at 12:19pm E.S.T.: Ship stranded '100 nautical miles east of French Antarctic station...

May 9, 2014
Initially entered 30th of December 2013 at 12:19pm E.S.T.:

Ship stranded '100 nautical miles east of French Antarctic station Dumont D'Urville. The 74 people aboard include scientists and tourists, many of them Australian, and 22 Russian crew', and been stranded there since December 24th, making it about 7 days, tough and heavy blizzard weather obstructing rescue efforts. 

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-antarctica-ship-idUSBRE9BP0FK20131230


In a situation like this, successful rescue efforts often have been with the help of helicopters.
 

Initially entered December 19 2013, Thursday, 2:30pm EST: In Brussels, Belgium, Protesters are Blocking Entrance to European Union Summit Site

January 8, 2014
Where:
  • Brussels EU quarter, is where about 10,000 demonstrators reportedly are
  • activities blocking roads into the city; which appears to be the city named Brussels


Other names for protests:
  • anti-austerity

Name/s of group reported to be involved:
  • Alliance D19-20

Events:
  • tractors blocking main transportation arteries into Brussels
  • Bonfires alight
  • flags being hoisted
  • mix of men and women
  • mix of business attire and casual clothing in the totality of the scene that seems to be evolving; who the protesters ...

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Initially entered 11th of November 2013, Monday, 4:20pm EST: 2 Plane Crashes Result in Fatalities, 4 Reported as Those Lost in Bahamas and 5 in Ontario in Canada

December 31, 2013
Initially entered 11th of November 2013, Monday, 4:20pm EST:

2 Plane Crashes Result in Fatalities, 4 Reported as Those Lost in Bahamas and 5 in Ontario in Canada

  • Event Summary: Northern Bahamas plane crash includes Indiana man


  • Where/when -crash 1/ Bahamas-: Grand Bahama Island thereabout, late Sunday morning, November 10th, 2013


  • Where/when -crash 2/Canada-: Red Lake, Ontario, Sunday night, November 10th, 2013


  • This entry immediately above last updated 4:20pm EST, Monday, November 11th, 2013

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Initially entered December 19 2013, Thursday, 2:30pm EST: In Brussels, Belgium, Protesters are Blocking Entrance to European Union Summit Site

December 31, 2013
Initially entered December 19 2013, Thursday, 2:30pm EST:

In Brussels, Belgium, Protesters are Blocking Entrance to European Union Summit Site

Where:
  • Brussels EU quarter, is where about 10,000 demonstrators reportedly are
  • activities blocking roads into the city; which appears to be the city named Brussels


Other names for protests:
  • anti-austerity

Name/s of group reported to be involved:
  • Alliance D19-20

Events:
  • tractors blocking main transportation arteries into Brussels
  • Bonfires alight
  • flags being hoiste...

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Entry November 12th/2013: Well Known Senior Aged Men Lost Over Weekend and Times Close to

November 12, 2013
Initially entered 12th of November 2013, Tuesday, 1:45pm EST:

A number of seniors that are well known in their respective areas that they gained popularity in, have had reports of them status of health fatality.  Occurrences all over the world, between last Sunday and early Monday the 10th of November, those referred to range from union leaders, to government officials, to businessmen.

Of them:
  • Mr. Tony Wishart of Indiana Departed While Piloting a Plane that Crashed in a Northern Island of the B...

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Posted November/5/2013: ISIS Issues, ISIS is Supposedly an Acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and What Exactly?

November 11, 2013

From Tuesday 11/5/2013:

  • Event Summary: ISIS threat and emergence of the awareness of the group; concurrently there are disambiguation issues, such as what does the last 'S' stand for, Sham, Syria, or used interchangeably with Levant?  Is the 'Islamic State' of the formation thereof, 'in', or 'of' Iraq and Syria, separate before or what it is they declare as their goal?  The weight of the implications for each respective to each,concerns. 
  • Who: ISIS
  • When: developing situation
  • Where: Syria, ...

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Posted 11/6/2013: Over a Half Dozen Ostensibly Simultaneous Bombs Detonate in Shanxi, China

November 11, 2013
  • Event Summary: Bombing in Taiyuan, a city in Shanxi province, in China, located about 326 miles southwest of Beijing, occurred this morning in urban area with tall buildings and wide car vehicle transit roads.  As of this report, it sounds like at least 7 bombs detonated at or near simultaneously.  The bombs were comparatively not huge, yet powerful enough to result in a chaotic scene.  Reports of several to less than a dozen injuries and at least one person fatally.
  • Who: unknown/unclear...

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Three School Shootings Scares Between Yesterday November 4th and today November 5th 2013...

November 5, 2013
  • Event Summary: Three school shootings scares between yesterday and today, all of which seem to be under enough control that they are not life threatening emergencies.  The CCSU in Connecticut yesterday 11/4/2013, evidently was a situation that evolved out of an imprudent Halloween costume.  In north New Jersey, at a mall, early this morning 11/5/2013, a gunman is reported to have turned the weapon on himself, after an upsetting event last night 11/4/2013 that involved a series of shots...

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