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	Powell's Books - The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas G. ...
		The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
		In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley, a New Orleans resident and professor of history at Tulane University, rips the story of Katrina apart and relates what the Category 3 hurricane was like from every point of view.
		Weightiest, in both pages and scope, is Douglas Brinkley's 'The Great Deluge,' a prodigious work of industry penned on the fly while the storm-displaced Tulane history professor flitted from one refuge to another for six months.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0061124230-0 (2007 words)

	THE DELUGE - LoveToKnow Article on THE DELUGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		diluvium, flood, diluere, to wash away), a great flood or submersion of the earth (so far as the earth was known to the narrators), or of heaven and earth, or simply of heaven, by which, according to primitive and semi-primitive races, chaos was restored.
		We may imagine that between the creation and the deluge some great and wise Being had initiated the early men, not only in the necessary arts of life, but in the ways that were pleasing to the heavenly powers.
		We may at any rate plausibly hold, with the article Deluge (by Cheyne) in the ninth edition of this work n (1877), that the deluge-stories of Polynesia and early Babylonia (we may now probably add India) were accommodated to an imaginative conception of the sun and moon as voyagers on the celestial ocean.
	100.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DE/DELUGE_THE.htm (3649 words)

	Flood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Flood, the great Universal Deluge of myth and perhaps of history is treated at Deluge in mythology.
		The annual cycle of flood and farming was of great significance to many early farming cultures, most famously to the ancient Egyptians of the Nile river and to the Mesopotamians of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
		The Great Flood of 1993 was the greatest flooding disaster in United States history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flood (1945 words)

	the great deluge
		Great as their vision of the unbelievable waterfall must have been, perhaps the only other event that might have compared would be the Great Rainbows that must have been generated all across the sky all around the waterfall.
		Because of this great flood immigrant cultures arrived in totally new lands and started entirely new civilizations, some of the most ancient civilizations known to man. And they all knew what an amazing thing it was that they had been through.
		Previous to the great flood the people of the great city cultures of Catal Huyuk and Hacular in Anatolia had no difficulty in knowing the Koronovo and Vinca and other cultures of the west of the Euxine Lake along the great rivers, and vice versa.
	www.geocities.com /gardenofdanu/the_great_deluge.htm (2185 words)

	Deluge of Noah - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		An Egyptian legend of the Deluge is referred to in Plato's Timaeus, where the gods are said to have purified the earth by a great flood of water from which only a few shepherds escaped by climbing to the summit of a high mountain.
		The dimensions of the "Great Eastern," built in 1858 (692 ft. long, 83 ft. broad, and 58 ft. deep), are still closer to those of the ark. The cuneiform tablets represent the length, width and depth each as 140 cubits (262 ft.) (II.
		In Europe the great Irish elk, the machairodus, the cave lion, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus and the elephant disappeared with prehistoric man, amid the floods at the close of the Glacial epoch.
	www.searchgodsword.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T2631 (4075 words)

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		Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your State in our histories; but one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valor; for these histories tell of a mighty power which was aggressing wantonly against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end.
		For, because of the greatness of their empire, many things were brought to them from foreign countries, and the island itself provided much of what was required by them for the uses of life.
		As the great continent which stood where the Atlantic Ocean now is wore away, the continents of America and Europe were formed; and there seems to have been from remote times a continuous rising, still going on, of the new lands, and a sinking of the old ones.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext03/8ataw10.txt (15474 words)

	Folk-Lore in the Old Testament. Chapter IV The Great Flood Part 2
		Anyone who compares the laboured ingenuity of this account of the deluge with the majestic simplicity of the corresponding narrative in Genesis is in a position to measure the gulf which divides great literature from its tinsel imitation.
		The story, therefore, that Dardanus, a native of Pheneus, was compelled to emigrate by a great inundation which swamped the lowlands, drowned the fields, and drove the inhabitants to the upper slopes of the mountains, may well rest on a solid foundation of fact.
		They said that the sea rose and covered a great part of the flat land in their island, and that the survivors retreated to the lofty mountains which still render Samothrace one of the most conspicuous features in the northern Aegean and are plainly visible in clear weather from Troy.
	englishatheist.org /folklore/four2.shtml (4792 words)

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		These reveal great beds of sandstone, clay, shale, etc., all of which science declares must have been placed where they are as the settling of great, sudden and violent floods.
		Because of their great distance from the planets, their motions are different, and they are held in suspension by the same laws which hold the planets themselves in space.
		The sudden break of the canopy of water would not only cause a deluge to come down at both poles, and the flow of great tidal waves toward the equator, as geologists show was the case, but it would also produce a sudden and intense cold at the poles.
	www.biblestudents.com /endtimesarchives_spr99.cfm (3543 words)

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		Berossos was the priest of the temple of Bel who, after Alexander the Great conquered the Near East and imposed Greek culture on it, tried to explain the essential points of Babylonian culture to the new rulers of his country.
		A parallel to this association is the tradition conveyed by early Arab historians that the great Pyramid of Gizah was built by a king in order to preserve the fundaments of all arts and sciences because a deluge was impending.
		The ratio of "great cubits" to natural barley cubits is 2:3.
	www.metrum.org /deluge/delberos.htm (2243 words)

	Folk-Lore in the Old Testament
		The literature, of which a great part was borrowed from Babylonian originals, was inscribed in cuneiform characters on tablets of soft clay, which were afterwards baked hard and deposited in the library.
		Hence the discovery of a Sumerian version of the deluge legend raises a presumption that the legend itself dates from a time anterior to the occupation of the Euphrates valley by the Semites, who after their immigration into the country appear to have borrowed the story from their predecessors the Sumerians.
		In this account of the deluge Biblical critics are now agreed in detecting the presence of two originally distinct and partially inconsistent narratives, which have been combined so as to present the superficial appearance of a single homogeneous story.
	www.creationism.org /flood/FrazerFolkloreOT_4.htm (10323 words)

	Definition of Deluge (mythology) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The story of a Great Flood sent by God or gods to destroy civilization is a widespread but not universal theme in myth.
		After the Deluge, Utnapishtim lived on the island of Dilmun and had achieved a great age when Gilgamesh sought him out for the secret of immortality.
		The Timaeus of Plato refers to the "great deluge of all" and the Critias refers to the "great destruction of Deucelion." In addition, the texts report that "many great deluges have taken place during the nine thousand years" since Athens and Atlantis were preeminent.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Deluge_(mythology) (2768 words)

	Flood Stories from Around the World
		Heaven and Earth were great giants, and Heaven lay upon the Earth so that their children were crowded between them, and the children and their mother were unhappy in the darkness.
		The god Burkhan advised a man to build a great ship, and the man worked on it in the forest for many long days, keeping his intention secret from his wife by telling her he was chopping wood.
		The deluge occurred as stated; Janardana appeared in the form of a horned fish, and the serpent Ananta came in the form of a rope.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/flood-myths.html (20355 words)

	Deluge
		The Great Flood and the Great Deluge are two distinct, but connected, events.
		A deluge, on the other hand, is a heavy fall of rain.
		Genesis version is the same: a rush of flood waters upon the earth, followed by the fountains of the great deep (water rising up via the hydrologic cycle), and then rain -- i.e.
	www.halexandria.org /dward193.htm (1558 words)

	Crooks and Liars » The Great Deluge
		It was destined to be known as "the Great Deluge" in the annals of American history.
		NPR has an interview with Douglas Brinkley in their archives, speaking of gathering the oral histories that helped make up The Great Deluge.
		The Great Deluge Oral History Project is still collecting oral histories of Katrina survivors.
	www.crooksandliars.com /2006/09/04/the-great-deluge (210 words)

	Influence of the Phallic Idea: Lesley's Arkite Symbolism
		The inquiries of Dr. Faber have thrown great light on this question, although the explanation given by him of the myth of Osiris and of the kindred myths of antiquity is by no means the correct one.
		The truth thus taught was lost sight of, and was replaced by the dual notion of a great father and a great mother "the transmigrating Noah and the mundane Ark" of the universal deluge.
		Even the great Carthaginian god Melekh, who was also held in universal honor throughout all Phoenicia, appears, although Bunsen does not thus identify him, to be no other than Lamekh, the father of Noah.
	www.sacred-texts.com /sex/ipi/ipi10.htm (1121 words)

	Hugh Miller -- Lecture Seventh: The Noachian Deluge, Part I
		And yet among even these forgotten races of the human family he found the tradition of the deluge still fresh and distinct; not confined to single tribes, but general among the scattered nations of that great region, and intertwined with curious additions, suggestive of the inventions of classic mythology in the Old World.
		Such are some of the traditions of that great catastrophe which overtook the human family in its infancy, and made so deep an impression on the memories of the few awe-struck survivors, that the race never forgot it.
		In fine, though the question whether the Noachian deluge was universal, or merely partial, is an interesting question in physics, it is in no higher degree a moral one than those questions which relate to the right figure or age of the earth, or to the true motions of the heavenly bodies.
	www.tiac.net /~cri/1998/miller_part7.html (4980 words)

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		These two great mounds lie close to the remains of the great west wall of Nineveh, which in the time of the last Assyrian Empire was washed by the waters of the river Tigris.
		The tablets that have come down to us prove not only that he was as great a benefactor of the Library of the Temple of Nebo as any of his predecessors, but that he was himself an educated man, a lover of learning, and a patron of the literary folk of his day.
		It is, at all events, clear that the Sumerians regarded the Deluge as an historic event, which they were, practically, able to date, for some of their tablets contain lists of kings who reigned before the Deluge, though it must be confessed that the lengths assigned to their reigns are incredible.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/8bbdl10.txt (12434 words)

	Burnet_chapter_7
		An Examination of Tehom-Rabba, or the great Abysse, and that by it the Sea cannot be understood, nor the Subterraneous Waters, as they are at present.
		The frequent allusions in Scripture to the opening and shutting the Abysse, and the particular stile of Scripture in its reflections on the Origin, and the Formation of the Earth.
		Then that which followeth, is a description or representation of the great Deluge that ensu'd, and of that disorder in Nature, that was then, and how the Waters were setled and Bounded afterwards, Not unlike the description in the 104 Psalm, vers, 6, 7, 8, 9.
	www.uwmc.uwc.edu /geography/Burnet/burnet_chapter_7.htm (3237 words)

	Burnet_chapter_2
		And yet, methinks, it is reasonable to believe, that Divine Providence, which sees at once throughout all the Ages of the World, should not be willing to keep Mankind finally and fatally ignorant of that part of Nature, and of the Universe, which is properly their Task and Province to manage and understand.
		The Fountains (he saith) of the great Abysse were broken up, or burst asunder, and the Rain descended for forty days, the Cataracts or Floodgates of Heaven being open'd.
		And in these two, no doubt, are contain'd the causes of the great Deluge, as according to Moses, so also according to reason and necessity; for our World affords no other treasures of water.
	www.uwmc.uwc.edu /geography/burnet/burnet_chapter_2.htm (1759 words)

	Babylonian Story of Deluge
		THIS brochure, The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish, was originally written by the late Keeper of the Department, SIR ERNEST WALLIS BUDGE, LITT.D., F.S.A. It is now re-issued in a revised form, rendered necessary by the march of discovery in Babylonian matters during the last few years.
		These two great mounds lie close to the remains of the great west wall of Nineveh, which in the time of the last Assyrian Empire may have been washed by the waters of the river Tigris.
		It is, at all events, well known that the Sumerians regarded the Deluge as an historic event, which they were, practically, able to date, for some of their records contain lists of kings who reigned before the Deluge, though it must be confessed that the lengths assigned to their reigns are incredible.
	www.earth-history.com /Babylon/story-deluge.htm (11136 words)

	Noah’s Deluge Story
		For, there are many deluge stories in some of the Ancient Near East societies, India, Burma, Malawi, Australia, islands of the Pacific, and all the Red Indian societies.
		Despite the falsifications that fill these stories, they all agree that a deluge had happened and that there was a righteous man who built a ship and embarked in it of each kind two, male and female; his family and the believers who followed him.
		The deluge story was mentioned in the book; as there was a king called “Xisuthras” to whom the Deity appeared in a vision and informed him that all mankind would perish by a deluge, and commanded him to build a ship and go on board of it when the deluge commences.
	www.55a.net /eng/49.htm (1743 words)

	The Great Deluge - or Flood, and the earth's composition - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		I think he has great technical power and could cause such a catastrophic environmental disaster to take place, causing this "ocean-in-the-sky" if you will, to fall down onto the Earth.
		And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men.
		They were a hominid species who went extinct because they couldn't deal with the change of their situation (change of climate, human rivals).
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?p=1004421 (3205 words)

	McClung Museum - Royal Tombs of UR - Woolley and the Great Flood
		In the epic, Enlil, the senior deity of the pantheon, plots to reduce the number of humans, whose noisy vitality was such that Enlil could not sleep.
		The story opens in Shuruppak, where the great gods decide to wipe out the human race with a flood, but Ea (Akkadian name of the Sumerian god Enki) reveals the plans to Utnapishtim, and tells him to build a great boat.
		Utnapishtim does as he is told and loads all his possessions, including silver and gold, his family, domesticated and wild animals, and craftsmen onto the boat.
	mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /specex/ur/ur-flood.htm (2342 words)

	Amazon.com: The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Books: Douglas Brinkley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Great Deluge: Emotional, powerful, and comprehensive history of Hurricane Katrina and its impact..
		The Great Deluge is so gripping a story that it reads almost as fiction; its easy to forget that it all happened, live and in color, in front of an entire nation.
		Brinkley delivers an emotional and powerful story of danger, disaster, and survival that is sure to become one of the definitive works on the subject, and is a book that is important for everyone to read.
	www.amazon.com /Great-Deluge-Hurricane-Katrina-Mississippi/dp/0061124230 (1492 words)

	The Great Deluge
		A great deal of the controversy surrounding Genesis concerns the Flood.
		The Bible records in Genesis 7:11 that ``the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
		And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.'' This great Flood, according to the Bible, lasted for one-hundred and fifty days (Gen 7:24).
	home.socal.rr.com /canham/articles/deluge.htm (770 words)

	Noah's Ark - the flood - the great deluge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Noah's Ark - the flood - the great deluge
		Even the idea that "the earth was baptised" is scientifically acceptable, as long as we remember what a baptism is. In fact, all the so-called problems disappear as long as we stick to what the prophets actually said and not what we think they said, or would like them to have said.
		But on the other hand, if we assume that between these times there was a fair percentage of righteous people (perhaps even ten per cent would be enough) we might expect great things, given that they had over a thousand years to develop their society.
	www.whyprophets.com /prophets/deluge.htm (7005 words)

	Squires Publishing - The Deluge by Alexander Winslow
		For many centuries now the question concerning the cause of the Deluge and indeed the source of its waters, not to mention the detrimental effect the environmental conditions produced by this catastrophe has had on mankind and the whole of Terrestrial Creation, has been an issue of controversy between many people and professions.
		Here then is a book in which we take a thought provoking look at the earth-wide environmental conditions brought about by the great 'vapour and ice-crystal canopy' which once surrounded the Earth like a great glittering blanket, producing Edenic conditions over the whole planet.
		The sudden collapse of this great ocean canopy resulted in the most devastating event ever recorded.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /squirespublishing/deluge.htm (566 words)

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