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Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster The Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster was a large-scale incident of occupational silicosis as the result of the construction of the Hawks Nest Tunnel near Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, as part of a hydroelectric project. This project is considered to be one of the worst industrial disasters in American history.
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Three Mile Island accident the three mile island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on march 28 1979 in one of the two three mile island nuclear reactors in dauphin county pennsylvania united statesit was the worst accident in u s commercial nuclear power plant historyccording to eric epstein chair of three mile island alert the tmi plant operator and its insurers paid at least $ 82 million in publicly documented compensation to residents for loss of business revenue evacuation expenses and health claims
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The Story of the Most Successful Tunnel Escape in the History of the Berlin Wall In 1963, a group of West German students set out to dig a tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall. Among them was a young man named Joachim Neumann, who had fled from East Germany, officially referred to as the German Democratic Republic, or GDR, just a few years earlier.
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- 476 Graves The Story Behind Hawk's Nest Tunnel, West Virginia Hillbilly, 10-28- 1972. Big Hawks Nest Plant to Begin Operation Soon, Montgomery News, 1-24-1936. Chemist Recalls Construction Details Clearly After 60 Years, Fayette Tribune, 10-1- 1990.
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- hawk's nest tunnel disaster The following books and articles on Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster can be found at the West Virginia Archives and History Library. books
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Three Mile Island Today marks the 35th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. On March 28th, 1979 one of the reactors at the The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County partially melted down. Back then, no one knew exactly what was going to happen. The incident was unprecedented.
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Timeline: Nuclear plant accidents Mayak or Kyshtym nuclear complex (Soviet Union): 29 September 1957. A fault in the cooling system at the nuclear complex, near Chelyabinsk, results in a chemical explosion and the release of an estimated 70 to 80 tonnes of radioactive materials into the air. Thousands of people are exposed to radiation and thousands more are evacuated from their homes.
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Big Blue Crane Collapse Table of Contents. Abstract: On July 14, 1999, while lifting a section of the retractable roof for the Milwaukee Brewers new stadium, the Lampson Transi-Lift crane nicknamed 'Big Blue' suddenly collapsed. As a result of the collapse, three workers died, five more were injured, and the opening of Miller Park was delayed for a season.
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Great Lakes Region The 1913 Storm in the History of Great Lakes Maritime Disasters. Woodblock print of Le Griffon. Credit Wikipedia. Since the sinking of the French trading vessel Griffon in 1679 on Lake Michigan, one of the first shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, thousands of other ships have met a similar fate.
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- Disaster. Reactor overheats at Three Mile Island. The most serious nuclear accident in United States history takes place at the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on this day in 1979, when one of the reactors overheats.
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Weekend Getaway: The Greatest Scenic Drives In N.Y. State Route 97 to Hawk’s Nest. Head over the George Washington Bridge and make your way back into New York State to visit this scenic slice of heaven. Once a one-lane, dirt road, New York State Route 97 takes you to Hawk’s Nest Scenic Overlook, located right outside of nearby Port Jervis.
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Three Mile Island accident The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.he Three Mile Island accident inspired Charles Perrow 's Normal Accident Theory, in which an accident occurs, resulting from an unanticipated interaction of multiple failures in a complex system.
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1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash 'After seventeen years of blaming the two pilots of the RAF Chinook which crashed in 1994, killing all 29 people (senior police and secret police), the MOD changed its mind and announced that it wasn’t their fault at all: it was the helicopter.
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The Incredible Story Of Chilean Miners Rescued From The 'Deep Down Dark' On Oct. 13, 2010, all 33 of those Chilean miners trapped for 69 days inside the San Jose Mine were raised to the surface of the earth — resurrected — through a newly drilled escape tunnel into which a capsule was slowly lowered and raised by a giant crane. It was a feat of engineering and a triumph of faith.
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- PA, Easton, Bushkill Park - a Lehigh Valley landmark for decades before three straight years of flooding sunk the park in the mid-2000s. The park flooded in September 2004, April 2005 and June 2006. Fehnel (an owner) said there is no question that if the park reopens, it will flood again.
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Warwick Park South of the day use area lies Pennsylvania’s only surviving Fink Truss, patented by Albert Fink in 1854. In 1870, the Chester County Commissioners contracted with the Phoenix Iron Works, Phoenixville, to make a pedestrian footbridge across the French Creek. The “bridge to nowhere,” which incorporates the restored Fink Truss, is now used as a scenic overlook of the French Creek Valley.
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- September 24, 2002. The Flight 93 National Memorial is located at the site of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked in the September 11 attacks, in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Shanksville, and 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Pittsburgh.
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The 10 Worst High-Rise Building Collapses in History In East London, on May 16, 1968, a single match triggered the collapse of an entire corner of this massive 22-story building. Ivy Hodge, a 56-year-old cake decorator living on the 18th floor, got up early to make herself a cup of tea.
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What is a broken arrow? Similar fail-safe measures have ensured that no broken arrow has ever resulted in a nuclear blast, but there have been a few incidents in which a weapon was lost and never found. During the Vietnam War, a plane carrying a nuclear bomb slid off the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga and disappeared in the Pacific.
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Washburn Tunnel Washburn Tunnel. The Washburn Tunnel is a two-lane underwater motor-vehicle tunnel connecting Galena Park and Pasadena, two suburbs of Houston, Texas. Completed in 1950, it travels north-south underneath the Houston Ship Channel. It was named after Harris County, Texas Auditor Harry L. Washburn. It is the largest and first toll-free vehicular tunnel in the Southern United States.
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- Comments about Recycled Paper Bull Head : I love the bull. It's a great size and color. The juxtaposition of the bull right above my two high-end English style chairs will be brilliant.
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Veterinarian Careers / Vet Tech Careers There are a variety of professions that involve working with animals and while many can be very rewarding, none can offer the kind of potential that exists when you choose to become a veterinarian or veterinary technician.
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2001 anthrax attacks On April 11, 2007, Ivins was put under periodic surveillance and an FBI document stated that Bruce Edwards Ivins is an extremely sensitive suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks.. On July 29, 2008, Ivins died from an overdose of acetaminophen.io Recovery Corporation removed 93 bags of anthrax-contaminated mail at the New York Post alone. The decontamination of the Brentwood postal facility took 26 months and cost $130 million. The Hamilton, New Jersey postal facility remained closed until March 2005; its cleanup cost $65 million.
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Flight 93 National Memorial Added to NRHP. The Flight 93 National Memorial is located at the site of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked in the September 11 attacks, in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Shanksville, and 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Pittsburgh.
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The plane crash ( Neighbours) The plane crash (Neighbours) The plane crash is a storyline from the Australian television soap opera Neighbours that began on 24 October 2005 when an aeroplane, carrying several characters, crashed in Bass Strait after a bomb was detonated during the journey.
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Eagle from Braveheart Raptor Rehabilitation Center in Twin Lake to be released • Learn more: The Braveheart Raptor Rehabilitation Center, located at 6221 Sweeter in Twin Lake, is open to the public April through October, from 1-4 p.m. on the second Thursday and Sunday of each month. The center has a mature bald eagle, turkey vulture, barred owl and other raptors.