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** Sturmabteilung ( SA ) ( storm troop ), affiliated to the Nazi Party.
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** Sturmabteilung ( SA ) – Storm Detachment or Battalion, abbreviated SA and usually translated as stormtroop ( er ) s. NSDAP paramilitary group ; the third name in late 1921
** and SA
** scenes in the 1972 film Cabaret depict the savage beating of a nightclub bouncer by a group of SA men.
** a member of the industrialist Essenbeck family is a member of the SA in the 1969 Luchino Visconti film The Damned, in which one sequence luridly depicts the Night of the Long Knives.
** and storm
** West Ice accidents: During a severe storm in the West Ice, east of Greenland, 78 seal hunters on 5 Norwegian seal hunting vessels perish without a trace.
** A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru, ends after government commandos storm and capture the building, rescuing 71 hostages.
** Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.
** 1996 Everest disaster: A sudden storm engulfs Mount Everest with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving 8 dead.
** The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80, 000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while on approach to La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
** The Russian ironclad Rusalka disappears in a storm en route from Tallinn to Helsinki ; her hulk is eventually discovered in July 2003, off Helsinki.
** An unexpected storm buries Maine under five feet of snow, forcing the Bangor Daily News to miss a publication date for the only time in history.
** The-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board ( an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot ).
** Hedley Verity establishes a new first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
** The third hurricane of the season, the first recorded example of a storm crossing from the Eastern Pacific basin into the Atlantic basin, occurred in Oaxaca.
** Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.
** The same storm which pounded the U. S. earlier in the month hits England, Scandinavia and the Baltic States, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.
** in the play and film Bent by Martin Sherman, the hero has the misfortune to spend the night with a storm trooper on the Night of the Long Knives, and is caught up in the arrests and sent to a concentration camp.
** Currently, the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge is once again being tolled ; because of the age of the bridge and its inability to withstand more than a 20-year storm, it is planned to be replaced by a new floating bridge in 2014.
** Darjeeling Himalayan Railway has six full zig zags, most are from the construction of the current railway but one was added in the 1940s and at least one other was used temporarily following storm damage, narrow gauge
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