Word: galveston
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...over the separation of Church and State in schools moved onto the sports field Monday, as the Supreme Court elected to review a Texas high court decision banning student-led group prayers at football games. The case arises from a 1995 complaint in the Santa Fe school district near Galveston against the local school board's decision to allow students to read any message or "invocation" over the PA system at halftime. A Federal judge ruled that such messages and prayers could go on - if they were "nonsectarian and nonproselytizing." But the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later ruled prayer...
...pounded the U.S. long before global warming was a catchphrase. A group of storms in the early part of the century ? long before pollution was considered a major problem ? resulted in the loss of thousands of lives and billions of dollars in property. The infamous 1900 hurricane that destroyed Galveston, Texas, and killed more than 8,000 people is still considered one of the deadliest storms in history, while the 1935 hurricane that ripped across the Florida Keys, killing more than 400, is the most powerful to have made landfall in the United States...
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...evacuation studies, takes into account storm tracks, local landmarks and coastal geography to calculate the effects of a hurricane storm surge, the dome of water pushed ashore by strong winds. Such surges can be the deadliest aspect of a hurricane. An immense surge overflowed the city of Galveston, Texas, in 1900 and killed more than 8,000 people, and possibly as many as 12,000. A surge raised on Florida's Lake Okeechobee in 1928 killed...
...least, disaster scenarios like this remain only hypothetical. Perhaps that's one reason most people don't pay much attention. Homes still rise on the barrier islands off North Carolina. On Galveston's westernmost beaches, where the land is barely above sea level, luxurious new mansions stand atop stilts so tall the scene is almost comical. Just a few minutes up the road, however, there's a poignant monument to this sort of denial. Hard by bright blue signs marking Galveston's primary evacuation route, a small plaque commemorates the site where the hurricane of 1900 destroyed an orphanage...