It wasn't like a giant wave came in, but the water actually at the river level just rising very quickly.

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Telling Scotland's History features the Storegga Tsunami, a giant wave that hit 8, 000 years ago, and South Uist's Frankenstein's Mummies.

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The Pacific's tsunami warning system began to be set up after a giant wave struck Hawaii in 1946, killing more than 150 people.

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Ten years ago the only large yachts capable of such speeds were Whitbread round-the-world racers crewed by 12 burly sailors and even then only while surfing down a giant wave in a gale.

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"There was a giant digitization wave that Ancestry brought on, and we realized that there is an enormous amount of data that is now made searchable, " Mr. Shaw says.

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Scott Davidson, who ran Amaranth's asset-backed securities desk, worked his own connections to land (along with some ten colleagues) at Carlyle-Blue Wave, a hedge fund offshoot of the private equity giant.

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Instead, the league is unveiling a wave of technological initiatives to go along with improved wireless Internet and newly built giant videoboards.

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The giant wave coincided with extreme weather and rising sea levels and was part of a process that submerged land beneath the North Sea.

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