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In April 1906, the tenor Enrico Caruso and members of the Metropolitan Opera Company came to San Francisco to give a series of performances at the Grand Opera House. The night after Caruso's performance in Carmen , the tenor was awakened in the early morning in his Palace Hotel suite by a strong jolt.
Enrico Caruso (/ k ə ˈ r uː z oʊ /, [1] US also / k ə ˈ r uː s oʊ /, [2] [3] [4] Italian: [enˈriːko kaˈruːzo]; 25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921) was an Italian operatic first lyric tenor then dramatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles that ...
1906 is a 2004 American historical novel written by James Dalessandro. [1] [2] With a 38-page outline and six finished chapters, he pitched it around Hollywood in 1998 for a film by the same name, based upon events surrounding the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.
Enrico Caruso. The earthquake lasted 55 seconds. A hotel page described the pandemonium inside the hotel: "I found the floor crowded with screaming guests running every which way. As the elevators were all out of order the guests headed for the marble stairs, which were broken and cracked and falling below."
A series of earthquakes rattled Taiwan in late January, with the most severe being a magnitude 6.0 quake that shook the southern part of the country on Jan. 20, leaving 27 people with minor injuries.
Japanese automaker Nissan finds itself at a crossroads.Nissan was poised to participate in a megamerger with rival Honda (), and it was a huge development when the talks were revealed late last year.
A court sketch depicts Rudy Giuliani with his lawyer Kenneth Caruso in federal court on November 7 after the former New York City mayor failed to surrender valuables to Georgia election workers he ...
Enrico Caruso: When people accuse famed opera star Enrico Caruso of causing the Great San Francisco Earthquake, Peabody steps in to prove his innocence and find the real cause of the earthquake. Historical Figures: Francisco Romero , George Washington , Benjamin Franklin , Thomas Jefferson , other U.S. Presidents, Charles Darwin , Enrico Caruso