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The New York Times (October 5, 1919). "For Action on Race Riot Peril". The New York Times. New York, NY. ISSN 1553-8095. OCLC 1645522; The Wheeling Intelligencer (May 31, 1919). "Georgia White Burn Five Negro Churches". The Wheeling Intelligencer. Wheeling, West Virginia: Intelligencer Pub. Co. pp. 1–24. OCLC 13502337
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Arson was suspected; there had been two other fires at the building in the previous two months. [66] Frederick Weiler Blady, a 36-year-old drifter from New Jersey, was arrested and charged with arson in connection with this fire and with a previous fire at the same hotel on October 5, 1978.
A person who commits arson is referred to as an arsonist, or a serial arsonist if the person has committed arson several times. Arsonists normally use an accelerant (such as gasoline or kerosene) to ignite, propel, and direct fires, and the detection and identification of ignitable liquid residues is an important part of fire investigations. [5]
1991 July 20 – A meetinghouse and family history centre in Loughborough, Leistershire, England was damaged in an act of arson. [48] 1991 December 22 – Six bombs were set off in Chile: five in Santiago and one in Valdivia; two of the targeted sites were meetinghouses of the Church. [49] 1992 March 29 – A meetinghouse was bombed in Santiago ...
Half the city was destroyed. Same conditions and origin area of the Second Great Chelsea Fire (1973). Idaho, U.S. 1910 Massive forest fire known as the Big Burn: 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km 2) burned out, 75 dead. New York City 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Killed 146 garment factory workers; 4th deadliest industrial disaster in U.S ...
Firefighter arson is a persistent phenomenon involving a very small minority of firefighters who are also active arsonists. [1] Fire-fighting organizations are aware of this problem. Some of the offenders seem to be motivated by boredom, or by the prospect of receiving attention for responding to the fires they have set.
"Chicago of the South" "Convention City of Dixie Land" An 1859 industrial journal was among the first to note nicknames for Atlanta, Georgia: [1]. An orator claimed for it the signification of "a city among the hills" while a writer has declared that it was the opposite of "rus in urbe" ("country in the city") and proclaimed it "'the city in the woods".