http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp...3468&sec=world
Quote:
Missing Russian lake baffles villagers
MOSCOW: A Russian village was left baffled on Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.
NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.
It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival.
The trees flew downwards, under the ground, said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.
Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system but some villagers had more sinister explanations.
I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us, said one old woman as she sat on the ground outside her house. Reuters
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i don't know why the quote in boldface type is so funny to me... but i got a big chuckle out of it.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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