Except that another company, run by the same chief executive, previously tried and failed to start an ethanol venture in Moses Lake.

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On Feb 2, 1996, a 14-year-old boy walked into his Moses Lake, Washington, Junior High School algebra class and started shooting.

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According to SEC filings made by Earth, the company contracted with Liquefaction Corp. to build an ethanol facility near Moses Lake in 2006.

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The Moses Lake project followed a similar pattern.

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And in 1965, selling motorbikes for a spell in Moses Lake, Washington, business became a lot more interesting when, fired up with a Wild Turkey or two, he did tricks to draw in the customers: jumping a car, then a car and a 20-foot box of rattlesnakes, then two cars, rattlers and a mountain lion, until a crowd came to watch him.

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Another park impresario made it worse: In 1959, Robert Moses filled in the lake, and left Lincoln to gaze at the rear fence of a skating rink for 52 years.

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