Accident
On Boxing Day in 2011, there was a major rock slide at Cape Arkona, which buried a ten year old girl and seriously injured her mother. A weeklong search for the child was given up on 8 January 2012 and it was not until 31 January 2012 that the child's body was found at the foot of the cliff.
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Famous quotes containing the word accident:
“When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
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—D.H. (David Herbert)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)