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The Caldor Fire was a large wildfire that burned 221,835 acres (89,773 hectares) in the Eldorado National Forest and other areas of the Sierra Nevada in El Dorado, Amador, and Alpine County, California, in the United States during the 2021 California wildfire season. [2] The fire was first reported on Saturday, August 14, 2021, and was fully ...
[3] [4] The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire formed from the merger of two separate wildfires: the Hermits Peak Fire began on April 6 when the U.S. Forest Service lost control of a prescribed burn, and the Calf Canyon Fire began on April 9 when an improperly extinguished Forest Service pile burn from January rekindled. The two fires burned into ...
The Four Chaplains. George L. Fox, Alexander D. Goode. Clark V. Poling, John P. Washington. The Four Chaplains, also referred to as the Immortal Chaplains or the Dorchester Chaplains, were four chaplains who died rescuing civilian and military personnel as the American troop ship SS Dorchester sank on February 3, 1943, in what has been referred ...
The Harris County Fire Marshal's Office said on X, "HCFMO expresses our heartfelt sympathies to the family, friends and colleagues of the Precinct 4 Deputy who lost his life today. May his legacy ...
Nowruz, Sizdebedar. Chaharshanbeh Suri or Charshanbeh Suri (Persian: چهارشنبهسوری, romanized: Čahāršanbe suri; [1][2][3][4] lit. 'Scarlet Wednesday'), is an Iranian festival of the fire dance celebrated on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year, of ancient Zoroastrian origin. [2]
The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) is a South American New World vulture and is the only member of the genus Vultur. It is found in the Andes mountains and adjacent Pacific coasts of western South America. With a maximum wingspan of 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) and weight of 15 kg (33 lb), the Andean condor is one of the largest flying birds in the ...
From 30 July to 5 August 2024, [a] far-right, anti-immigration protests and riots occurred in the United Kingdom [b] following a mass stabbing in Southport on 29 July in which three children were killed. The riots were fuelled by false claims circulated by far-right groups that the perpetrator of the attack was a Muslim asylum seeker, [5][31][4 ...
Ramsey chose zero (a complete dud), Robert Oppenheimer chose 0.3 kilotons of TNT (1.3 TJ), Kistiakowsky 1.4 kilotons of TNT (5.9 TJ), and Bethe chose 8 kilotons of TNT (33 TJ). [87] Rabi, the last to arrive, took the only remaining choice – 18 kilotons of TNT (75 TJ), which turned out to be the winner. [ 90 ]