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A scene from the movie. Ben-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film [1] directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character. A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
The massive scope of devastation led to monumental changes in the way the United States protected against flood damage. The Flood Control Act of 1936 was a direct result of the floods, and led to significant investment in flood protection, funding the construction of levees, dams, reservoirs, and other methods of mitigating or preventing floods ...
The 119-foot (36 m) dam would have created a reservoir extending nearly to Harpers Ferry. Superseded by the Seneca Dam proposal farther upriver, also never built. Harpers Ferry: Proposed in the vicinity of Sandy Hook and Weverton, the reservoir would have flooded the lower part of Harpers Ferry with a pool extending past Shepherdstown. It was ...
Approximately 150 to 200 people died in the Great Northeastern Flood of 1936. The flood’s damage was the catalyst needed for President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign the Flood Control Act of 1936 ...
Ben-Hur: William Wyler: Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins: Epic: MGM; won a record 11 Academy Awards; remake of 1925 silent film The Best of Everything: Jean Negulesco: Diane Baker, Stephen Boyd, Hope Lange: Drama: 20th Century Fox; 2 Oscar nominations The Big Circus: Joseph M. Newman: Victor Mature, Red Buttons, Rhonda Fleming: Drama ...
The flood eventually led to calls for the construction of a dam upstream on the Allegheny to prevent future floods of this magnitude. Laws providing for the construction of the dam were passed in 1936 and 1938 , but it would take nearly three decades, and a bitter fight with the Seneca Nation of Indians , before the Kinzua Dam was finally ...
[4]: 34 In 1837 the Winchester and Potomac Railroad reached Harpers Ferry from the south, and Latrobe joined it to the B&O line using a "Y" span. [ 4 ] : 65 John Brown used the B&O bridge at the beginning of his failed attempt to start a slave insurrection in Virginia and further south.
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