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  • Dozens killed as tornado hits Oklahoma Dozens killed as tornado hits Oklahoma

    WASHINGTON - A massive tornado ripped through parts of Oklahoma city and its suburbs in the United States killing at least 24 people, including nine children, besides leaving scores homeless. As winds at over 320 kilometers per hour (kmph) flattened homes and businesses and severely damaged a hospital and two elementary school, the death toll was earlier said to be more than 90 but it was ...

  • Nikki Sixx lashes out at Kim K for promoting make-up line during Okla. tornado

    Nikki Sixx has slammed Kim Kardashian on Twitter for promoting her new make-up collection on Monday in the aftermath of the disastrous tornado that destroyed a suburb near Oklahoma City. After the 'Motley Crue' bassist tweeted about the Red Cross relief for the ruined town, the reality TV star soon followed with her plug on her own makeup line on the website, the New York Post reported. "Love ...

  • Experts say Oklahoma tornados power dwarfed Hiroshima bomb

    The amount of energy the killer tornado that hit US state of Oklahoma had dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that levelled Hiroshima. On Tuesday, the National Weather Service gave it the top-of-the-scale rating of EF-5 for wind speed and breadth and severity of damage. Wind speeds were estimated at between 200 and 210 mph. According to the New York Post, several meteorologists used real ...

  • Tornado spanned length of 22 soccer fields

    Residents of suburban Oklahoma were returning home as rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead after a mammoth tornado - said to be as wide as 22 football fields - flattened countless homes and claimed 24 lives, including nine children. Even as officials revised the death toll down from the earlier 51, the National Weather Service gave Monday's tornado that hit ...

  • Deadly US Twister Hits Tornado Alley

    Monday's deadly tornado in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma struck in an area commonly known as "Tornado Alley" - home to most of the nation's tornadoes. Tornado Alley is generally seen to span north to south from South Dakota to Texas between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains, but there is no official consensus on the boundaries. Comparison of Tornado paths in ...

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The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or) [DVD]

The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or) [DVD]

The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse dor) was the first film Jean Renoir made after returning from a more than decade-long stint in Hollywood after the disastrous reception of The Rules of the Game (1939), which is now considered his masterpiece. While some critics have ... ...

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  • Moore Oklahoma Begins to Recover from Deadly Tornado

    Volunteers retrieve clothing and other household items at a home destroyed by a tornado, across the street from the Plaza Towers elementary school in Moore, Oklahoma, May 22, ...

  • USM puts campus beautification on hold encourages donations to Oklahoma

    HATTIESBURG, MS (WLOX) - Southern Miss is taking a break from its tornado relief fundraising efforts in deference to the tragedy in Oklahoma. The University of Southern Mississippi Foundation announced Wednesday that they would refrain from publicly soliciting donors for the tornado relief and campus beautification campaigns. "It is inappropriate for us to continue to publicly request ...

  • Names of those killed in Oklahoma tornado

    OKLAHOMA CITY -; The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says it has positively identified 23 of 24 people killed in the tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, including 10 children. Officials still were trying to contact eight victims' relatives Wednesday, but released the names of 16 ...

  • Oklahoma tornado damage could cost more than $2 billion

    MOORE, Okla. - The cost of a massive tornado that battered an Oklahoma City suburb could be more than $2 billion, according to a preliminary official estimate announced Wednesday. State authorities meanwhile said two infants were among the 24 people who perished in the twister.Oklahoma Insurance Department spokeswoman Calley Herth told The Associated Press that the early damage tally is based on ...

  • Victims Of Deadly Moore Tornado Identified

    MOORE, Oklahoma - The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office has released the names of most of the 24 people killed Monday when a tornado roared through Moore and south Oklahoma City. During the original chaos in the immediate aftermath of the tornado, the medical examiner's office reported 51 people had been killed. They later revised that number to 24; 14 adults and 10 children, ...

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