1889 johnstown
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Johnstown Flood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Johnstown Flood disaster (or Great Flood of 1889 as it became known locally) occurred on May 31, 1889. It was the result of the failure of the South Fork Dam situated 14 miles ... (more...)
1889 Johnstown City Directory
Johnstown City Directory, 1889, Cambria Co, Pa ... KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS. agt, agent. E. Con, East Conemaugh. Pv, Peelorville. (more...)
May 31, 1889 Johnstown Flood by The New York Times
Three articles published in the immediate aftermath of the flood. (more...)
Histiography of Johnstown Flood of 1889
General Information Welcome The Dam The Club Colonel Unger Details Dam Building Start of Club Club Members Bibliography The Victims Eye Witnesses http://www.nps.gov/ /archive/jofl ... (more...)
1889 Johnstown City Directory, -M- Surnames
M- Surnames, Johnstown City Directory, 1889, Cambria Co, Pa ... M- Mabon, Henry A. hostler, bds 408 Locust st, Con. Mabon James H. blacksmith, bds 408 Locust st, Con. (more...)
Why the Hurricane Plan Got Trashed - Wired
Crunching numbers for the NBA The tech heroes in Katrina's wake A tribute to Robert Moog, 1934-2005 More » "Everybody talks about the weather," Mark Twain famously noted, "but nobody does anything about it." Sounds a lot like Hurricane Katrina. The ... (more...)
A Drug War Boondoggle - US News and World Report
It merits only the briefest of mentions in the president's new budget, but those few lines of type could represent the final chapter in a long and twisted Washington saga. Stashed away on Page 1,181 is a paragraph that would effectively kill the ... (more...)
'Extreme Trains' gets sidetracked too easily - New York Daily News
I love trains. I did not love "Extreme Trains." It's not a bad show, or at least tomorrow night's opener, the first of eight episodes in the series, isn't bad. It just spends too much time on academic details and on trying to pump up an inflated ... (more...)
A flood of criticism for baseball's handling of Game 5 - Chicago Tribune
A movie called "The Fan" came out in 1996, starring Robert DeNiro as a psycho baseball fan and Wesley Snipes as a smug San Francisco Giant. There were a number of reasons to find this film annoying. But the one that stood out was a Giants game that ... (more...)
Rediscovering the Past - PennState Altoona
When Nathan Koozer began his internship with the National Park Service, he had no idea that his discoveries would help change the way local residents viewed history. As a Penn State Altoona history major from Bellwood, Pennsylvania, Koozer was ... (more...)