But just as Strauss was set to reach his half century, he once again needlessly gifted his wicket away, top-edging an attempted reverse sweep off Hauritz to Johnson at short fine leg - the fifth time the off-spinner had claimed his wicket in the series.

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Water sweeping off the mountains also causes floods, which destroy irrigation canals and can even sweep away the mud huts in which most rural Afghans live.

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He arranged the "purchase" of Eliza Armstrong, the 13-year-old daughter of a chimney sweep, whom he then smuggled away to France in order to prove how easy it might have been to carry off a real abduction.

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