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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Water flows through an intentional breech in the Birds Point levee Tuesday, May 3, 2011, in Mississippi County, Mo. The Army Corps of Engineers' blew a two-mile hole Monday night into the Birds Point levee in southeast Missouri, which has flooded 130,000 acres of farmland in Missouri's Mississippi County in an effort to protect nearby Cairo, Ill. from rising floodwaters.

Jeff Roberson / Associated Press

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