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The bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and one freight track between Astoria, Queens, and Port Morris, Bronx, via Randalls and Wards Islands. Its main span is a 1,017-foot (310 m) steel through arch across Hell Gate , a strait of the East River that separates Wards Island from Queens .
15 Unknown A gas explosion burned several homes and caused at least 10 other explosions. [108] 4 August 2020 Lebanon: Beirut: 218 7,500 2020 Beirut explosion – An explosion damaged the port of Beirut, causing $15+ billion in damages. 300,000 people were also displaced. [109] [110] 4 August 2020 China: Xiantao, Hubei province 6 4
Kenosha was home to the short lived Kenosha Maroons NFL franchise in 1924. They folded after going 0–4–1. [131] It was also the home of the Kenosha Cardinals, a semi-professional football team between 1937 and 1941 [132] which played at Lake Front Stadium at 58th Street and Third Avenue
The first skirmishes occurred on the morning of August 25. The bulk of the miners were still 15 mi (24 km) away. The following day, President Warren G. Harding threatened to send in federal troops and Army Martin MB-1 bombers. After a long meeting in Madison, the seat of Boone County, the miners were convinced to return home. But the struggle ...
Following the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, the United Nations gave several tons of blue paint to a Belgian artist, so he could commemorate it by painting a line of boulders in the Sinai Desert blue. Boulders Beach: A beach on the Southern African coast, near an urban residential area, known for being home to a colony of several thousand penguins.
The whaler on HMS Sheffield being manned with an armed boarding party to check a neutral vessel stopped at sea, 20 Oct 1941. The Blockade of Germany (1939–1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire and by France in order to restrict the supplies of minerals, fuel, metals, food and textiles needed by Nazi Germany – and ...
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
[failed verification] [68] The oldest wood-frame home still standing in Saint Anthony is the Ard Godfrey house, built in 1848, and lived in by Ard and Harriet Godfrey. [69] The house of John H. Stevens , the first house on the west bank in Minneapolis, was moved several times, finally to Minnehaha Park in south Minneapolis in 1896.