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"Smoke on the Water" is a song by English rock band Deep Purple, released on their 1972 studio album Machine Head. The song's lyrics are based on true events, chronicling the 1971 fire at Montreux Casino in Montreux, Switzerland.
According to the Geneva Police Chief, Pepper Mock, the house was specifically targeted by the burglar and intentionally set on fire. But Jones doesn’t know of anyone who would target them.
GENEVA, Ala (WDHN) — One home is destroyed and another damaged in Geneva after an early morning arson, Geneva Police confirmed to WDHN. According to police Chief Pepper Mock, at around 12:45 a.m ...
Aug. 7—GENEVA — The work of Geneva firefighters and the community continues to fund improvements to the John McCroden Memorial Fire Training Center. Several improvements are scheduled to occur ...
Montreux Casino (Casino Barrière de Montreux) is a casino located in Montreux, Switzerland on the shoreline of Lake Geneva. It has served as the venue for the Montreux Jazz Festival and was rebuilt following a 1971 fire memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water". It is a property of Groupe Lucien Barrière.
The United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW or CCWC), concluded at Geneva on October 10, 1980, and entered into force in December 1983, seeks to prohibit or restrict the use of certain conventional weapons which are considered excessively injurious or whose effects are indiscriminate.
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The Geneva Fire Department's C.J. Folger Hook & Ladder Co. #1 is named in his honor, as is Folger Park in Washington, D.C. In 1879 and 1880, a company of the New York Army National Guard was organized in Geneva and named the Folger Independent Corps in honor of Folger. The unit became the 34th Independent Company and served during the Spanish ...