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Yeap, and I think it also takes the prize as the article nobody wanted to start because it's such a potentially huge subject. I'm happy you dove in. I was thinking of starting it myself if nobody else did by the end of the month. But I'm always happy to be beat to the punch. By the way, I've made
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A statement in the second paragraph that doesn't ring true. Either a fact wrong, or there is need for disambiguation. This statement says "The average rainfall in Cairo is four and a half inches per year." That certainly is not true of
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I just did the math, and given that U.S. copyright law makes content in copyrighted publications expire after 75 years, all the newspaper images of the flood will become available in the late winter of 2012. Just a head's up. :)
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I made a correction. It's directly across the river from Louisville in Southern Indiana. It's inside the Louisville metro area, and thus that's why it gets discussed in the Kentucky section.
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I've never heard of the Rose Island amusement park, but there is a discrepancy between this article, which places it in Louisville, and the Rose Island article which places it in Indiana...
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sure that most (I think) articles that reference this subject are linking to this article now. I'm not sure if I caught them all, but I tried.
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thanks! The fact that it is in the metro area is sort of lost to folks who aren't in that area!
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This is high importance for WPLou as this is a major event in Louisville's history.
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I thought about adding it to the WPA article, but I wasn't sure where to add it.--
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The section on Kentucky has more information on Indiana than KY. Any thoughts?
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List other names for the flood, such as "Great Flood of '37".
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