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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:47, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Lurgrotte

 * ... that in 1894, a flash flood trapped seven cave explorers in the Lurgrotte karst cave of Austria for ten days? Source: Reader's Digest Natural Wonders of the World
 * Comment: Unfortunately, there's no Google books preview of the book I'm using as a source here, but I do have a copy of it that I can scan and email to anyone if confirmation of the facts is required. There are also a number of German-language sources that mention the flooding and rescue efforts (mentioned in the article) but I figured English would be better. According to one of the old German newspapers cited, Emperor Franz was responsible for spearheading the rescue effort, but I didn't want to put that in the hook because it's old and German and hard to read.
 * Comment: Unfortunately, there's no Google books preview of the book I'm using as a source here, but I do have a copy of it that I can scan and email to anyone if confirmation of the facts is required. There are also a number of German-language sources that mention the flooding and rescue efforts (mentioned in the article) but I figured English would be better. According to one of the old German newspapers cited, Emperor Franz was responsible for spearheading the rescue effort, but I didn't want to put that in the hook because it's old and German and hard to read.

Created by Premeditated Chaos (talk). Self-nominated at 10:18, 8 April 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg New enough, long enough, hook cited, no copyvio, images properly licensed. QPQ apparently not required, this seems to be the first DYK by this user. SpinningSpark 09:53, 9 April 2017 (UTC)