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… that blew off the roof (weighing 12,000 tons), caused a fire inside the reactor that burned for ten days, and spewed … reactor, 1986 ( left ), and radioactive cloud ( right ). Fire fighters and power station workers struggled to put out the fire. Two people were killed in the explosion and around 28 …

… strain on labor markets. On July 16, 1877, a lone firefighter on Engine 32 of the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) … thirty people were wounded and three killed by police gunfire. But a bomb placed in the crowd killed seven police … burn next to the bodies of those who jumped to escaped the fire. Some employers broke ranks and settled with the ILGWU. …

… panicking at the intensity of the protest-turned-riot, fired into the crowd, and a battle ensued. By the riot’s … Concorde , February 6, 1934. (BnF) Newspaper Kiosk set on fire during the protests on February 6, 1934. (BnF) While …

… courtroom on April 29, 1992, Los Angeles erupted in a firestorm of anti-police protest. Looting, burning, and … neighborhood of South Central where the uprising began. Fires during the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. (Photo by Gary … 1992. (Photo by Gary Leonard, Los Angeles Public Library) Fire fighters attempt to put out the burning La Mancha …

… with ancient Iran. The world’s most famous Zoroastrian “fire temple” is located in Surakhani, just west of Baku, and … at the reconstructed temple complex. The Zoroastrian fire temple complex at Surakhani, near Baku (left) ; the replica of the fire temple's eternal flame (right). Although this was the …

… Supreme Court ruled in several cases that employers who fired gay or transgender workers violated the 1964 Civil … a press conference in Columbus, Ohio in 2013. Hale was fired from Bishop Watterson H.S. for being in a gay …

… New York has, lietmotif-like, been destroyed — by fire, by bomb, by flood, by riot, by earthquake, by wrecking … Miller’s 1886 book, “The Destruction of Gotham,” a great fire engulfs the city as lower-class mobs violently attack … atom bombs repeatedly devastate the city, with smoke and fire enveloping all of lower Manhattan. The final image of a …

… into formation. Without any warning, Dyer gave the order to fire into the unarmed, non-violent crowd. The passageway to … was running out of ammunition. Bullet holes from the rounds fired by Dyer’s troops in 1919. Dyer continued to believe …

… the exhausted Redcoats were pursued back to Boston, taking fire from all directions, including from inside and behind … other over the claim to be the place where Americans first fired in anger at the British. Both towns erected their own … fact that teamwork is vital to military success. So, who fired the first shot that April morning? Theories abound. …

… in flames, lighting up the skyline of downtown Algiers. Firefighters managed to subdue the flames by 2:30pm, but the … gone, and its interior had suffered substantially from the fire.  And yet, the most significant damage was not to the … the French government and the FLN finally agreed to a ceasefire on March 18, 1962 and planned for public referendums on …

… Texas. In May 1968, a 12-man team came under fire by a North Vietnamese battalion and desperately called …

… years ago today, April 12, 1861, Edmund Ruffin proudly fired a shot at Fort Sumter, the Federal military … years and more than 600,000 dead Americans later, Ruffin fired what has been called the last shot of the war when he … of racial apartheid.   Sadly, 150 years after Edmund Ruffin fired on Fort Sumter, large numbers of Americans remain in …

… impossible legally to own a handgun and requires that all firearms be locked up. The last time a Second Amendment case … sawed off shotgun, in violation of the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. § 1132. One of the factors weighing … Konig points out that this quote had nothing to do with firearms. Jefferson was actually talking metaphorically, …

… (United Nations Protection Force) units began taking fire, they abandoned their observation posts or surrendered … Dutch UNPROFOR observation post in Srebrenica took heavy fire from Bosnian Serb troops in 1995. On July 11, Bosnian …

… of Cotton tells a global history, Bryant Simon’s The Hamlet Fire uses a smaller frame to tell an equally compelling … story about capitalism. Simon’s engaging book focuses on a fire at a North Carolina chicken plant in 1991 that killed … Unlike the better-known 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, this industrial disaster produced no wider social …

… can lead to failed crops, desiccated landscapes, wildfires, dehydrated livestock, and in severe cases, water … succumbed to insect related diseases, fueling massive wildfires. Snowfall was extremely sparse, forcing ski areas to … Yosemite National Park, California, showing AD dates of fires (photo courtesy of Thomas Swetnam, Laboratory of …

… floating waste, burning for five days. In 1969, another fire - and the Cuyahoga, a relative unknown, became an … Breyfogle  In fact, since 1868, the Cuyahoga caught fire in different sections more than a dozen times. The 1969 Fire was widely covered in the press and functioned as one …

… The United States was a nation forged in the ideological fires of a democratic revolution to overturn monarchy and … The United States was the nation forged in the ideological fires of a democratic revolution to overturn monarchy and … as we put this together, a nation forged in the ideological fires of revolutionary democratic ideology. Ideology has …

… polluted Cuyahoga Valley. The previous morning, June 22, a fire on the river had burned two low bridges and startled the long-polluted city. The Cuyahoga had caught fire more than a dozen times before, but not in many years, … simply could not clean the river on its own. A 1952 fire on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio ( left ). …

… another until half a football field apart, and then opening fire until ranks are broken and desperate hand-to-hand … "in the minds of the people" even before a shot was fired. In the course of a decade of resistance to British … very eyes. Not ideology but the simple desire for revenge fires his outrage. Only near the film’s end, when he gallops …

… the catastrophe in a letter dated two days after the fire: The King’s players had a new play, called All Is True, … about a different historical Henry (and even a mention of fire). Henry V was one of the first of Shakespeare’s plays … imaginations to transcend “this wooden O”: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A …