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In 5600, the Mediterranean flooded into the Black Sea lake with so much force, it drove the many peoples around it far away. Some carried civilization to Sumeria and Egypt, others built the world's largest buildings along their path to modern-day Paris. Come face the starvation, theft and wars these people encountered.

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    Author: * Apiladey ApilSin - 5 Posts on this thread out of 2,521 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Nov 5, 2004 - 04:16

    I knew we'd come out an easy winner. Niagara Falls, at peak time, has a flow rate of 2,832 cubic meters per second - a huge amount of water. That would give the Black Sea waterfall a flow rate of 56,640 cubic meters/second. Surely nothing could top that. Well, at the site I checked, Victoria Falls, at peak flood season, has a flow rate of about 9,100 cubic meters/second. Gads, considering a cubic meter has 35.3147 cubic feet in it, and a cubic foot has 7.48 gallons, that means the Black Sea falls had about 15 million gallons going over each second. Incidently....the Guaira falls in Brazil/Paraguay is the waterfall in the present world with the most volume with 13,300 cubic meters per second, but I suspect that not even our waterfall at the Bosporus would hold a candle to the falls at the Pillars of Hercules, when the Atlantic broke through to refill the Mediterranean.


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