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'' My impassioned plea for civil rights created a landslide of correspondence and one sponsor even asked me to consider replacing the Eddie Cantor comedy hour on a permanent basis.
The Conscription Crisis of 1918 further intensified public support for Sinn Féin before the general elections to the British Parliament on 14 December 1918, which resulted in a landslide victory for Sinn Féin, whose MPs gathered in Dublin on 21 January 1919 to form Dáil Éireann and adopt the Declaration of Independence.
After repeated victories in 1983, 1987, 1990 and 1994 he was finally defeated by a landslide that was the biggest on record, for the left in the 1998 federal elections, and was succeeded as Chancellor by Gerhard Schröder of the SPD.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was elected president on 10 December 1848 by a landslide.
* 1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100, 000 in the Sichuan province of China.
After Lincoln's landslide re-election in early November 1864 on a platform advocating passage of the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution to abolish slavery altogether, Booth devoted increasing energy and money to his kidnap plot.
* 1906 – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet ( which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill ) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
In a stunning landslide defeat, where ABC news had been predicting a 16 point Sandinista victory, the FSLN lost to the National Opposition Union by 14 points in elections on February 25, 1990.
Roosevelt was a powerful campaign asset for the Republican ticket, which defeated William Jennings Bryan in a landslide based on restoration of prosperity at home and a successful war and new prestige abroad.
The New South Wales Governor, Sir Philip Game, intervened on the basis that Lang had acted illegally in breach of the state Audit Act and sacked the Lang Government, who then suffered a landslide loss at the consequent 1932 state election.
* June 10 – An earthquake-caused landslide dam on the Dadu River gives way, killing 100, 000 in the Sichuan province of China.
The analysis is used to identify the factors that are related to landslides, estimate the relative contribution of factors causing slope failures, establish a relation between the factors and landslides, and to predict the landslide hazard in the future based on such a relationship.
* The landslide around 200BC which formed Lake Waikaremoana on the North Island of New Zealand, where a large block of the Ngamoko Range slid and dammed a gorge of Waikaretaheke River, forming a natural reservoir up to 248 metres deep.
* Khait landslide, Khait, Tajikistan, Soviet Union, on July 10, 1949
* Monte Toc landslide ( 260 millions cubic metres ) falling into the Vajont Dam basin in Italy, causing a megatsunami and about 2000 deaths, on October 9, 1963
* Hope Slide landslide ( 46 million cubic metres ) near Hope, British Columbia on January 9, 1965.
* Tuve landslide in Gothenburg, Sweden on November 30, 1977.
* Thredbo landslide, Australia on 30 July 1997, destroyed hostel.
* 2008 Cairo landslide on September 6, 2008.
* 2011 Rio de Janeiro landslide in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on January 11, 2011, causing 610 deaths.
Before and after radar images of a landslide on Venus.
In the center of the image on the right, the new landslide, a bright, flow-like area, can be seen extending to the left of a bright fracture.
The risks of her profession were illustrated when on October 1833 she barely avoided being killed by a landslide that buried her black-and-white terrier, Tray, her constant companion when she went collecting.

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* An avalanche, similar in mechanism to a landslide, involves a large amount of ice, snow and rock falling quickly down the side of a mountain.
" The Ming author also applauds the strength of the langmu wood as " if one could use a single silk thread to hoist a thousand jun or sustain the weight of a mountain landslide.
The event has not been studied in detail, but the proto-lake ( freshwater fjord ) may have been at least as deep as the two present-day halves, Seton and Anderson Lakes, on either side of the Portage, suggesting that the surge generated by the giant landslide in the narrow mountain confines of the fjord valley may have been comparable in scale to Lituya Bay.
* Monte Toc, a mountain in Italy known for a major landslide
The mountain gets its name from when French explorers were traveling through the area and a landslide occurred on the mountain.
The longest extension of the marz from the North-West to the South-East comprised 115 km, from the West to the East – 85 km, the deepest landslide is the canyon of the Getik river ( village of Dsoravank, 1325 m ), the highest peak – Ajdahak mountain ( 3598 m ).
In the late Pleistocene era, a huge landslide occurred at the mountain, with approximately 25 km³ of debris travelling some 120 km, reaching the Pacific Ocean.
In the 29th year of Jie's reign he tried to dig a water-tunnel through the Qu mountain ( 瞿山 ), but the next year the mountain collapsed with a landslide.
The 1902 crater has left the southern flank of the mountain above Santiaguito highly over-steepened, and a large earthquake or eruption from Santiaguito could trigger a huge landslide, which might cover up to.
The eruption was heard hundreds of miles away, but some of those who survived the eruption declared that the landslide and pyroclastic flows were silent as they raced down the mountain.
On October 3, 2007, one home on Soledad Mountain Road and one of the main roads up the mountain was destroyed by a major landslide.
Other points of interest contained in the forest include Gannett Peak ( 13, 804 ft / 4, 207 m ), the tallest mountain in Wyoming, and the Gros Ventre landslide, which is one of the largest readily visible landslides on earth.
On March 19, a small earthquake centered in the Andes Mountains prompted a landslide along the slopes of a mountain near Chungar.

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Image: June 2011 Landslide Scars in Taiwan. jpg | Natural-colour satellite image of landslide scarred mountains in central Taiwan.
Nixon's landslide victory in the electoral college during the U. S. presidential election, 1972 | 1972 Election.
Lake Elizabeth, formed from a landslide in August 1953, it broke its banks allowing the West Barwon River ( Victoria ) | Barwon River to flow.
( Image: Stereogram guide cross-eyed. png | 10px ) Lake Palanskoye in northern Kamchatka Peninsula was formed when a large landslide disrupted the drainage pattern, forming a natural dam.
President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney meet with incoming Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid ( D-NV ) and incoming Senate Majority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin | Richard Durbin ( D-IL ) after the landslide defeat of Bush's party in the mid-term elections.

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