Deposed Egyptian president Hasni Mubarak famously cut off Internet and mobile phone service in Egypt at the height of the Arab Spring demonstrations that led to his ouster.

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To avoid the rain: in most of the Northeast, Midwest, and Plains, it rains less in the spring than in the height of summer, but in many Southern states, it rains less in the summer than in the spring.

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At the nearby Landao Department Store, sales topped 6.13 million RMB, nearly 1.5 million RMB above the record set at the height of this year's Spring Festival shopping season.

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Iraq saw destructive sectarian conflict during the height of the U.S. engagement in the country in 2006 and 2007, and the so-called Arab Spring political uprisings in Iraq's neighbors have contributed to a resurgence of sectarian volatility here.

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