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Shortly before the explosion, he said officers had "heard a whistle, probably the gas cylinders being opened".

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VChK-OGPU, a Telegram channel that publishes purported Russian security leaks, reported on 27 September that fuel was leaking into the hold of the Novorossiysk in the Strait of Gibraltar, raising the risk of an explosion.

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Robinson and Kanin treat comedy similarly to how the Army irradiated part of the Nevada desert with hundreds of nuclear explosions: No interaction is too minor to dement.

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In 2014, an explosion at the company killed one person, and a 2019 workplace safety inspection led to relatively minor financial penalties, which the company settled, according to online records.

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Oxygen is produced in older massive stars and dispersed into the cosmos through supernova explosions when they die.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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