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  • Toppled trees and flooded roads were reported Thursday in the Lake Champlain community of Willsboro, and a lightning strike was blamed for setting a home on fire Thursday evening.

    Severe storms wreak havoc from Vermont to Georgia 2011

  • Toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is receiving medical treatment for cancer in Saudi Arabia, Agence France-Presse AFP reported, citing a report in the state-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper on Wednesday.

    Libya: Rebels repel attack on Brega, Libyans react strongly against foreign intervention 2011

  • Toppled trees, fallen debris and flooding caused hundreds of roads to be closed over the weekend.

    Weakened Irene Rakes Coast Barry Newman 2011

  • "A week later, and in keeping with these media's principles, the headline was 'The People Toppled the Regime,'" Al Azhar University professor Nabil Fathallah wrote sarcastically in the comments section below Sami's article.

    Magda Abu-Fadil: Egypt Deep-Sixes Information Ministry Magda Abu-Fadil 2011

  • Toppled President Kurmanbek Bakiev used state coffers as a personal ATM machine.

    Wanted: OSCE Leadership in Kyrgyzstan Sam Patten 2010

  • Lebanese artist Chaouki Chamoun's acrylic-on-canvas "Toppled City" sold for

    Contemporary Middle East 2010

  • Promoted to Headline (H3) on 1/28/09: Iceland to Install Lesbian Prime Minister amid Financial Collapse, Toppled Government yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Iceland to Install Lesbian Prime Minister amid Financial Collapse, Toppled Government'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Iceland\'s most beloved political leader, Social Democrat Johanna Sigurdardottir, will become the world\'s first openly homosexual prime minister.

    Iceland to Install Lesbian Prime Minister amid Financial Collapse, Toppled Government 2009

  • Roxy Dunn Lockport, IllinoisQuestioning a Tradition I do feel sorrow for the students who were crushed to death when building a bonfire at Texas A&M ( "Toppled Tower," Periscope, Nov. 29).

    Mail Call: Promising Prospects In Europe 2008

  • Toppled power poles and imposing oaks lay snapped like twigs along roadways from the industrial towns along Galveston Bay all the way to Liberty and China in East Texas and Orange by the Louisiana border.

    Thousands Rescued in Ike's Wake; 2008

  • WOLF: Toppled trees and frozen lines are keeping hundreds of thousands of Missourians in the dark.

    CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2007 2007

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