Brazil’s largest cities hit by blackout
Bruno Marfinati Reuters Wednes day, Nov 11th, 2009 A major electricity outage left tens of millions of people in Brazil’s two biggest cities without power on Tuesday night due to problems with the transmission lines that connect to the massive Itaipu dam. The blackout affected Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as cities in at least four other states, hitting the industrialized southeastern part of Latin America’s largest country especially hard. All of Paraguay, which gets most of its energy from the dam, was also briefly left in the dark
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Timothy J. Gibbons Jacksonville.com Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Sailors and Marines along the beach at Mayport began moving the crowd away from the water Saturday afternoon as the amphibious assault vehicles approached across the waves.
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Timothy J. Gibbons Jacksonville.com Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Sailors and Marines along the beach at Mayport began moving the crowd away from the water Saturday afternoon as the amphibious assault vehicles approached across the waves. “Everybody back up!” a sailor shouted
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