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Re:Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night by ansible on Friday August 12, 2016 @04:10PM (#12278427)
You mean like the re-flooding of the Black Sea being the source event of the Great Flood story in Genesis?
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Re:Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night by 205guy on Friday August 12, 2016 @09:37PM (#12279809)
There are many candidate theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth#Claims_of_historici...

I like the Persian gulf one, after all the Sumerians who lived there later had a myth of which the Noah story seems like a retelling.

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