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  • Yes | No | Report from Buffryan wrote 41 weeks 4 days ago if the water is low and clear i fish a chernobyl for a dry and a shallow (chain eyed) clouser in a craw color

    What is the best bait to use fly fishing in a wide crick. 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from Buffryan wrote 41 weeks 4 days ago if the water is low and clear i fish a chernobyl for a dry and a shallow (chain eyed) clouser in a craw color

    What is the best bait to use fly fishing in a wide crick. 2009

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    Radiation: More Harm Or Good? | Manolith 2010

  • Ryan Sereno 3 months ago was that actual footage of chernobyl?

    Space Chimp on Vimeo 2010

  • Ohh another chernobyl victim, whats up with all that hating on the Ukies lately?

    Ferre: Abs Fab Cosmo7 2009

  • August 18, 2008 at 6:27 am that is a possibility with the chernobyl flies.

    tollbooth kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Ang 20,000-tonelada arko bakal ay malapit nang ilibing ang chernobyl reactor , paggawa ng mga ito ligtas. ako tunay hindi nanginginig sa pagpili, ngunit Foreign Policy ay may isang listahan ng top 100 pampublikong intellectuals , at gustong ang iyong tulong kitid down na ito sa itaas na 20.

    ideonexus.com »2008» Abril 2008

  • The Greek word “absinthos” means “wormwood.” … and a Ukranian word for wormwood is “chernobyl.”

    Reader request Week 2007 #2: Coffee, or Lack Thereof « Whatever 2007

  • Schmemann wrote of an interview with an unnamed "prominent Russian writer" who "produced a tattered old Bible and with a practiced hand turned to Revelations" to point out the Wormwood verses, then "in the dictionary he showed the Ukrainian word for wormwood, a bitter wild herb used as a tonic in rural Russia, chernobyl".

    A star called Mugwort Ray Girvan 2004

  • Schmemann wrote of an interview with an unnamed "prominent Russian writer" who "produced a tattered old Bible and with a practiced hand turned to Revelations" to point out the Wormwood verses, then "in the dictionary he showed the Ukrainian word for wormwood, a bitter wild herb used as a tonic in rural Russia, chernobyl".

    Archive 2004-05-01 Ray Girvan 2004

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  • See ghost town

    I have seen this word used as a generic term for a manmade ecological catastrophe, as in "We've got to clean up the river and stop the mill from dumping here. This thing is turning into a Chernobyl."

    February 6, 2008

  • And a less big man-made problem is a three mile island

    February 6, 2008

  • It was big enough for those of us nearby!

    February 7, 2008