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Anna Torv in Fringe (2008) Olivia

S3E1

Brandon follows the orders of The Secretary and injects drugs in Olivia to brainwash her to convince that she is the Olivia from the parallel universe. However she succeeds to escape from her imprisonment on the Liberty Island and swims to Manhattan. She abducts the taxi driver Henry and forces him to drive to the Opera House expecting to return home; however the place is quarantined. Then she heads to the Massive Dynamic and finds that the company does not exist in the alternate universe. Meanwhile the Fringe Division is assigned by The Secretary to hunt Olivia. What will she do?

*The alternate Manhattan headquarters for Fringe Division is a several story oval building with a hint of Roman Colosseum and a roof garden. The building is actually the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library.

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Tragic Fuel Tanker Explosion in Northern Nigeria Claims 168 Lives

Tragic Fuel Tanker Accident in Northern Nigeria On a fateful Tuesday night, a driver of a fuel tanker was navigating the dimly lit roads of northern Nigeria, transporting a substantial load of 45,000 liters of gasoline. Suddenly, a van carrying tomatoes unexpectedly veered into his lane, forcing the tanker driver, Yusuf Mohammad, to swerve in a desperate attempt to avoid a collision.…

Tragic Fuel Tanker Explosion in Northern Nigeria Claims 168 Lives

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"ESCAPES DEATH IN EXPLOSION," Toronto Star. May 31, 1934. Page 2. ---- John Gairns, attendant at the Earl Holmes service station, Davenport Rd., narrowly escaped death to-day when a gasoline pump exploded bursting into flames. Mr. Gairns was thrown several feet but escaped uninjured. He averted a further explosion by quickly turning the safety valves of other tanks, preventing fire from descending to an underground tank containing 3.000 gallons of gasoline. A car, the property of Harry Sedgwick, that was being filled with gasoline, was badly burned. Mr. Sedgwick also escaped injury. In (1) the destroyed pump and damaged car are shown. Gairns (2) is seen holding the pump-hose that was ripped off and thrown more than 20 feet. Damage was estimated at more than $1,000.

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"Blast Blows Out House Wall Girl, Six, Runs Out Unhurt," Toronto Star. May 11, 1943. Page 5. ---- REAR OF HOUSE AFTER THE BLAST ---- A six-year-old girl, alone at home, escaped injury when an explosion blasted out the rear wall of a three-storey brick residence on Starr Ave., last night. Another wall was bulged away from the staircase and mouldings and fittings throughout the building loosened.

Police of Cowan Avenue station. said gasoline fumes were responsible.

Police said a newlywed couple visited the Burns home a few minutes before the explosion to see if they could rent the upstairs apartment. When no one answered the door they left, but had taken only a few steps up the street when they heard the noise, turned around and saw the flat they had intended to rent being blown up. Fire broke out in the basement, but was quickly extinguished by firemen from Ossington Ave. fire hall.

After the rear wall crashed into the yard, the child, Carol Burns. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Burns, ran screaming from the house. Badly frightened, but unhurt, she was taken to a neighbor's.

Neighbors said "Barry," the family's Newfoundland dog, tied in the back yard, was pinned against the fence by debris but not injured.

Mr. and Mrs. Burns arrived home half an hour after the explosion. Mrs. Burns said they were converting the upstairs into an apartment, and that she and her husband had been out buying paint.

A next-door neighbor said she heard a "roar and a crash." "I thought it was an earthquake," she said.

Two houses away, Miss D. Walton and her sister, Mrs. A. L. Wilson said the explosion sounded like "trains shunting." "We heard a child screaming," Mrs. Wilson related. "When we ran outside the whole basement seemed to be on fire and water was running out of the up- stairs pipes."

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“Gasoline Can Blew Up Between Man’s Knees On An Auto,” Sault Star. April 17, 1918. Page 5. ---- Jack Roach of Thessalon Victim of Accident That May Result Fatally --- Jack Roach of Thessalon and O.T. Ballantyne, of Bruce Mines, had a can of gasoline explode in a car on Sunday evening with the result that Roach was so badly burned that his life is dispaired of.

The two men were at the time taking the gasoline out to Little Rapids to the relief of a stranded car. The can was between Roach’s knees while Ballantyne was driving the car which belonged to himself. The men have no idea of the cause of the explosion as neither was smoking at the time Ballantyne escaped pretty well but Roach’s clothes took fire and he was very badly burned. He Is now in Thessalon hospital.

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The Feast of the Disfiguration (In Conflagratio Memoriae)

On the Eve of the Great Conflagration it behooves me to make promulgation as befitting my parbroiled station to choreograph a notation concerning that fateful vacation to that blustery lakefront location where, by gasoline misapplication, I nearly procured my cremation: an indelible disintegration by means of abrupt oxidation were it not for the quick application of a pot full of timely hydration, and precipitate evacuation at a speed fit for jet aviation and deletion (a shrewd expurgation) of digital documentation. So if I may make a summation: receive this sincere invitation to the Feast of the Disfiguration, to this night of profound celebration and recall, with repeated ovation the prevention, by swift calculation, my own swift premature cancellation. So remember, with fervent elation, the bright glow of the Great Inflammation and to join me in grave contemplation, and in meat, and excessive libation (mostly water, for your information!).