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	Black Friday - 1939
		The 'Black Friday' bushfires of January 13 1939, were the result of a long drought and a severe, hot and dry summer.
		Black Friday was the culmination of a long, dry and hot summer which followed a drought lasting several years.
		The 1939 bushfires are perhaps the most significant event in the environmental history of Victoria, profoundly damaging millions of hectares of forests, soil fertility and water catchments.
	www.dse.vic.gov.au /dse/nrenfoe.nsf/childdocs/-D79E4FB0C437E1B6CA256DA60008B9EF-8AC9C23269FA53B4CA256DAB0027ECC4?open (1140 words)

	Black Friday (1939) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black Friday fires of January 13, 1939, in Victoria Australia, has been considered one of the worst natural bushfires (Wildfires) in the world, and most certainly the single worst in Australian history as a measure of partly habitated land lost.
		It was calculated that three quarters of the State of Victoria was affected by the disaster, directly or indirectly and the Royal Commission into the fires was to note, "it appeared the whole State was alight on Friday, 13 January, 1939".
		Then, on Friday January 13, a strong northerly wind hit the state, causing several of the fires to combine into one massive front.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Friday_(1939) (679 words)

	Black Friday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black Friday (1978) - a massacre of protesters in Iran
		Black Friday (2004) - a crackdown on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé
		Black Friday (shopping) - the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the first shopping day of the Christmas season and one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Friday (473 words)

	INFERNO, Bushires of Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Notwithstanding more recent events, the widespread and devastating 1939 'Black Friday' bushfires remain, arguably, the most significant event in the 160 year history of park and forest management in Victoria, and one of the most significant events in the recorded history of south-eastern Australia.
		Surviving participants in the 'Black Friday' events have been located and interviewed on tape, historic documents have been perused and key sections published, as have been photographs and other important memorabilia, the fires' path and consequences have been analysed, and contributions from current 'players' in the wildland fire scene have been obtained.
		The result is a remarkable achievement which combines the immediacy and pathos of the recorded memories of those who took part in the events with a thoughtful and accessible analysis of the impact of the fires and their immediate aftermath.
	users.bigpond.net.au /rsantos/community_stories.html (197 words)

	Black Horror Movie Hall of Fame - Black Horror Movies.com african-americans in horror films
		Features consistently strong fl roles in hs movies, starting with the revolutionary role of Ben (Duane Jones) in Night of the Living Dead, but also including films like Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, and The Crazies.
		For instance, he's played "the fl guy from Leviathan", "the fl guy in The Crow", and "one of the fl guys from Congo", not to mention "a fl guy in Shark Attack, or so I've heard, since I've never seen it".
		The infamous Friday the 13th films take their place in the Black Horror Movie Hall of Fame as the embodiment of the horror cliche that the fl guy always dies.
	www.blackhorrormovies.com /halloffame.htm (1158 words)

	Articles on breaking into comics and writing: Black Friday by Jeffery Stevenson
		Friday, January 31, 1919--not happy with their standard 54-hour work week, Scottish workers went on strike to get those hours cut back a little.
		Friday, May 13, 1927--you just know at least one of these was gonna occur on Friday the 13th.
		Friday, September 8, 1978--mass protests broke out in Tehran and the military (under the Shah's declaration of martial law) used a lot of force to break up the demonstrations (killing hundreds of protesters).
	storyboard.darkora.net /articles.php?article=68&title=Black_Friday (304 words)

	NRE: The Virtual Exhibition - 1939 Bushfires (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The “Black Friday” bushfires of 13th January, 1939 were the culmination of a summer of destruction in Victoria.
		The Forests Act of 1939 gave the Forests Commission responsibity for forest fire protection on unoccupied crown land.
		The 1939 bushfires remain the most significant event in the environmental history of Victoria since 1788, having a profound effect on the regeneration of forests, soil fertility, water catchments and natural beauty.
	www.nre.vic.gov.au /virtualexhibition/39fires (373 words)

	Copyright © 2003 by The Voice of Prophecy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Black Friday is called that because it is the day that stores get out of the red and into the fl because so many people buy so much stuff on that day.
		There was another Black Friday in January, 1939, when a firestorm swept across Victoria, Australia, and 71 people died.
		But now Black Friday is just when common sense collapses and bargain fever sweeps over the huddled masses yearning to buy free and rack up ever more credit.
	www.vop.com /previous_broadcasts/2005/march/05132.htm (1533 words)

	'Black Friday' 1939 Bushfires
		Notwithstanding more recent events, the widespread and devastating 1939 'Black Friday' bushfires remain, arguably, the most significant event in the 160 year history of park and forest management in Victoria, and one of the most significant events in the recorded history of south-eastern Australia.
		Surviving participants in the 'Black Friday' events have been located and interviewed on tape, historic documents have been perused and key sections published, as have been photographs and other important memorabilia, the fires' path and consequences have been analysed, and contributions from current 'players' in the wildland fire scene have been obtained.
		The result is a remarkable achievement which combines the immediacy and pathos of the recorded memories of those who took part in the events with a thoughtful and accessible analysis of the impact of the fires and their immediate aftermath.
	www.dpi.vic.gov.au /DSE/nrenfoe.nsf/LinkView/02C3A7BF28CE78E6CA256E4A001E58F2C545BC8E48A4A388CA256E5800127900 (222 words)

	7.30 Report - 12/12/2006: Survivors remember 1939 Black Friday fires
		He's now 87 but on the Wednesday before Black Friday he was a tough 22 year old, ignoring the fire danger up in the mountains near Matlock working for Fagan's No 2 mill.
		On Friday the 13th, Black Friday, the winds picked up to gale force and the temperatures soared.
		By the afternoon of Black Friday, it seemed the whole state was ablaze.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2006/s1810134.htm (1134 words)

	DPI: The Virtual Exhibition - 1939 Bushfires (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The “Black Friday” bushfires of 13th January, 1939 were the culmination of a summer of destruction in Victoria.
		The Forests Act of 1939 gave the Forests Commission responsibity for forest fire protection on unoccupied crown land.
		The 1939 bushfires remain the most significant event in the environmental history of Victoria since 1788, having a profound effect on the regeneration of forests, soil fertility, water catchments and natural beauty.
	www.dpi.vic.gov.au /virtualexhibition/39fires/Index.htm (373 words)

	SEOmoz \| Black Hat vs. White Hat Search Spam Debate
		I don't disagree that a fl hat can make more money than a white hat in the short term, but if stability and investment are your goals, white-hat is for you.
		There are professional fl hats which I would consider myself to be as I chose to go for the fast income due to finding the `normal way` a bit boring and there are people who can only take that path due to time constraints.
		I bet the search engines are worried that if ever one of their employees left their fold to join the fl hats they would be more concerned than the other way round.
	www.seomoz.org /article/white-hat-black-hat (4813 words)

	Floods & Fires, Casterton, Victoria, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thursday February 6th, 1851 became known as "Black Thursday" due to the severity of the bushfires that raged in Victoria.
		Friday January 13th, 1939 became known in Victoria as "Black Friday"
		Lake Mundi, west of casterton was one of the worst hit areas in the Casterton district.
	www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au /casterton/floods_fires.htm (432 words)

	FULTON COUNTY INDIANA
		Schertz died at 9:15 o'clock Sunday morning at Woodlawn hospital, the result of injuries sustained Friday afternoon when his car skidded as he was turning a curve on the Tiosa road, five miles northeast of Rochester.
		The deceased had resided in Rochester only since January 28, 1939 at which time she came here from Warsaw to make her home with her son, Floyd, who is employed at the foundry.
		Friday morning, Feb. 17th, 1939 at the home of her daughter, Margaret REES, 517 Oakdale Ave., Chicago.
	www.fulco.lib.in.us /Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1939.htm (18543 words)

	Drought, Dust and Deluge - Fires - Black Friday
		Despite the presence of La Niña, the winter and spring months of 1938 were extremely dry; southern Victoria, in fact, had its driest ever July-December period.
		In the first week of January 1939, an almost stationary high pressure system became established over the Tasman Sea, where it remained until the 14th.
		Very hot air from the continental interior moved across southeastern Australia, with heat wave conditions in Victoria from the 6th to 13th (though weak cold fronts every two or three days brought temporary milder spells to the south).
	www.bom.gov.au /climate/environ/black_friday.shtml (544 words)

	Australian Climate Extremes-Fire
		Buildings ablaze in West Healesville, in Victoria's forest country, during the January 1939 fires (photo courtesy of the Victorian Dept of Natural Resources & Environment).
		Sometimes in Melbourne, the night before the onset of severe fire weather conditions is calm and mild, as a shallow layer of stable air near the earth’s surface - known as an atmospheric inversion - insulates the city from hot air and strengthening winds aloft.
		Burnt mountain ash trees line Black's Spur Road between Healesville and Marysville, in Victoria's mountain forest country, following the Black Friday bushfires of 1939.
	www.bom.gov.au /climate/c20thc/fire4.shtml (565 words)

	:: BlackElectorate.com ::
		But when they interviewed fl children, they found two-thirds of them also said the white dolls were the nice, pretty ones, and the fl dolls were bad.
		In her sample of 21 fl 4- and 5-year-olds at a Harlem childcare center, 15 children preferred the white doll - the same ratio the Clarks found in the 1940s and 1950s.
		One of the children, who had said she thinks the fl doll is bad, is shown answering a follow-up question: "Which doll looks like you?" The little girl hesitates, touches both, and slowly pushes the fl doll forward.
	www.blackelectorate.com /articles.asp?ID=1852 (935 words)

	Fire and Biodiversity - Paper 17
		During the week of 'Black Friday', 13 January, 1939, 76 Victorians perished and large scale losses were incurred, including virtually all of the old growth mountain ash forests in Victoria, a resource of inestimable value.
		It was thought in some quarters that losses on the scale of the Black Friday disaster could not happen again.
		Just when the Black Friday fires were fading into the mists of mythology, the 'Ash Wednesday' fires occurred.
	www.deh.gov.au /biodiversity/publications/series/paper8/paper17.html (2849 words)

	Barista » Blog Archive » one day a long time ago
		On a single day, Friday the 13th of January 1939, a great fire burnt across Southern Australia from the Otways to Mt Kosciusko.
		My partner’s Great grandparents and their children were caught in the Black Friday fires in the Warburton area.
		During Black Friday the family were forced to dig themselves into small holes to escape the heat and smoke, unfortunately 2 members died.
	barista.media2.org /?p=384 (1945 words)

	Black Friday isn't top shopping day it used to be (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And Black Friday used to mean the busiest shopping day of the year.
		Yet while Black Friday usually ranks in the top five, for years the busiest shopping days have been the Saturday before Christmas, the Saturday before that, and so on.
		To goose the Depression-bedraggled economy, in 1939 President Franklin Roosevelt decided to move Thanksgiving, which Abraham Lincoln had decreed was on the last Thursday in November, from the fourth to the third Thursday, extending the Christmas shopping period.
	www.courierpostonline.com /columnists/cxbu112604a.htm (503 words)

	Victoria braces for monster bush inferno : thewest.com.au
		Airborne over the fires on Friday a thick wall of smoke could be seen stretching from the state's central west to the coast, made visibility poor to non-existent.
		Premier Steve Bracks has likened the expected weekend conditions to those during the 1939 Black Friday fires, considered to be the nation's worst, that left 71 people dead and razed several towns.
		Two blazes at Mount Terrible and Jamieson on Friday merged into a 8,700 hectare fire front, with the ski resort Mount Buller placed on high alert, as well as Merrijig, Kevington and Gaffney's Creek.
	www.thewest.com.au /aapstory.aspx?StoryName=339504 (609 words)

	Toner Mishap: 05/15/2005 - 05/21/2005
		Black Friday (shopping) - the day after American Thanksgiving, one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
		Freaky Friday -- the name of three different movies with similar plots made by the Walt Disney Company where a teenage girl and her mother switch bodies and learn to understand each other better.
		TGIF – this is occurs on most Fridays unless one has to work on Saturday or has the misfortune to encounter a Black Friday.
	tonermishap.blogspot.com /2005_05_15_tonermishap_archive.html (4290 words)

	The Daily Almanac - July 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Black Friday was not as strong as originally reported.
		The origin of Black Friday comes from the shift to profitability during the holiday season.
		Black Friday was when retailers went from being unprofitable, or "in the red," to being profitable, or "in the fl", at a time when accounting records were kept by hand and red indicated loss and fl profit
	home.earthlink.net /~thedailyalmanac/2005.11.01_arch.html (1397 words)

	The Australian: Firefighters brace for high-country hell [ 09dec06 ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As several thousand firefighters battled blazes in the state's high country yesterday, it was with the knowledge that the weekend might bring a monster blaze to compare with Black Friday in 1939.
		Much of Victoria's east and northeast was blanketed by smoke last night, with fears that blazes spreading across state forests and the Alpine National Park could merge into a roaring 100km firefront tearing across up to one-fifth of the tinder-dry state.
		Victorian Premier Steve Bracks compared the threatening blaze to the state's worst bushfire disaster, saying: "This is going to be probably one of the worst fire periods we have seen in Victoria in the history of this state.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /printpage/0,5942,20896931,00.html (737 words)

	The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia - Black Friday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Other shoppers said Black Friday was more than getting great deals, it was the unofficial beginning to the Christmas shopping season.
		Black Friday is considered one of the busiest shopping days of the Christmas season and is the day many retailers stop showing a “red” loss on their income statements and move into the “fl” profits.
		In 1939, then-President Roosevelt declared that Thanksgiving would be the next to last Thursday of November rather than the last.
	www.register-herald.com /cnhi/registerherald/homepage/local_story_329232805.html?keyword=leadpicturestory (536 words)

	School Archives : 1939
		1939 was a momentous year for the world.
		On "Black Friday" (13 January) in Victoria, 71 people died and more than 1,000 homes and millions of hectares of forest were destroyed.
		And dusk's grey ash on murmuring cypress creeps.
	www.griffith-h.schools.nsw.edu.au /link.1939.html (1088 words)

	The Black Cat (1934)
		All that remains of Poe in the final release is the film's title and the brief appearances of a fl cat.
		Peter believes that Joan's strange behavior at the moment of the fl cat's death was unusual, but Werdegast writes off what happened as a result of the strong narcotic he gave her.
		He strokes the fur of a fl cat draped in his arms during his solitary walk, pausing in front of each case - his face is reflected in the glass.
	www.filmsite.org /blac.html (2439 words)

	David Goodis : Black Friday : Book Review
		Black Friday is the epitome of this, following a man on the lam who washes up in Philadelphia without a dollar on him and the cops closing in.
		He publishe is his first novel in 1939, after which he moved to New York City and wrote under several pseudonyms for pulp magazines.
		His work went out of print after his death, but in 1987 Black Lizard began to reissue his titles in 2007 Hard Case Crimes will publish some of his work which hasn't been in print for over 50 years.
	mostlyfiction.com /mystery/goodis.htm (995 words)

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