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Dirty Water: Federal Deregulation and the Re-Polluting of America

… 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 ). …
An engraving of Earl Cornwallis's surrender to George Washington during the American Revolution.

Hollywood’s American Revolution

… 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 …
William Shakespeare

The Globe Theatre: Shakespeare Lost & Found

… 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 …
Albert Hofmann

Albert Hofmann Discovers LSD

… Roman doctors described a disease called the sacred fire (sacer ignis) which by the Middle Ages came to be known as St. Anthony’s Fire: “an ulcerous Eruption, reddish, or mix’d of pale and …
A plume of smoke rising from a neighborhood in Beirut following an Israeli strike in 2006.

Why Israel’s Campaign Will Likely Fail

… is unlikely to succeed. In fact, it will probably backfire. Once before, Israel — under the pretext of a … to raze Palestinian Liberation Organization bases used to fire rockets into Israel. But just like the bombing of Tyre … in a round of shuttle diplomacy and brokered a cease fire. Israel eventually withdrew the IDF from Lebanon in …
Rep Joe WIlson fan club with a poster that reads, "You lie!"

Brooks to Thurmond to Wilson

… apparently so important that people be allowed to carry firearms: to prevent good Samaritans from intervening when … transplant to South Carolina from Virginia, claimed to have fired the first shot on Fort Sumter, thus precipitating the …
1864 depiction of the Fort Pillow Massacre in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper

Ten Moments of White Supremacist Violence in U.S. History

… ex-Confederates led by the Mayor of New Orleans opened fire on a parade of 130 black men celebrating the convention … months after a massacre in Memphis, TN, the violence backfired as it aided the Republican Party in Congressional … but were met by armed resistance. After exchanging fire, the sheriff died. Subsequently, hundreds of armed …
The White House lit in green light for St. Patrick's Day.

9/11 and 3/17: Closer Than You Think

… mark of 9/11, and the strong connection between municipal fire and police departments and Irish America.   A more … 11 with honor guards of New York City police officers and fire fighters, special moments of silence, and copious …
Monti's parents receive his Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama during a ceremony in the White House, September 17, 2009.

Leave the Medal of Honor Alone!

… Act for 2010, the Department of Defense came under fire for setting decoration standards too high. Still, … highest decoration, the Victoria Cross, for actions under fire. The United States has fielded three times as many …
Storming the Bastille

Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)

… Hôtel des Invalides, where they looted approximately 3,000 firearms and five canons. The weapons, however, required … It is a privilege which we should strive not to lose.   Fireworks in Paris on Bastille Day, 2017   …
the monument of the Soviet army in Sofia, completed in 1954

11/4/2014: Empty Fountains: Communist-Era Monuments Revisited

… demonstrations, a young man threatened to set himself on fire if the enormous red star on the top of the Communist … down immediately. After the building was stormed and set on fire, in an apparent victory of popular rage against the …
Soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division provide perimeter security for Iraqi policemen at a traffic control point in Tikrit, Iraq.

The Limits of Shock and Awe

… in the nineteenth century, predicting that his rapid-fire gun would put an end to war, as no one could advance in the face of such overwhelming firepower. But Gatling, like many later innovators, … war within a matter of months." Yet, despite the horrendous firestorms created in Dresden, Lubeck and Hamburg by British …
Cover of The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction by Max Page.

The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction

Review of The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction, by Max Page (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)
… similarities across time and genre.  Destruction by fire, water, foreigner, and plague have remarkable … that underlie them.  For example, demolition via flood and fire (with their Biblical overtones) are enduring modes, but …
The Olympic flag flies at half-staff during a memorial service to the slain Israeli athletes, September 6, 1972.

The Munich Olympic Massacre

… fuel. Even a single bullet could engulf the whole scene in fire.  As Issa and Tony returned from the deserted plane, two of five police sharpshooters opened fire from a rooftop. The scene quickly devolved into chaotic crossfire as the lighting units were hit and the airfield plunged …
Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877, oil on canvas

Silent Spring Revolution, a Conversation with Douglas Brinkley

… lakeshores. Combined Kennedy and Johnson I mentioned saved Fire Island National Seashore, in New York, Cape Lookout in … Ohio comes into play because the Cuyahoga River catches fire.   Douglas Brinkley  Other rivers had caught fire. The Rouge River had caught fire by Detroit. But they …
President George W. Bush with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley in 2006.

Is Iraq Vietnam?

… in 1963 thought that Diem could continue in office if he fired his brother Nhu – about as likely as President Kennedy …