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5 hours ago · 1927 Great Vermont Flood of 1927: Flood: Vermont: 84 1965 Eastern Air Lines Flight 663: Accident – aircraft: New York City, New York: 84 1977 Johnstown flood of 1977: Flash flood: Johnstown, Pennsylvania: $300,000,000 The flood occurred when an extraordinary amount of rain came down in the Conemaugh Valley in a short period of time.
5 hours ago · Igor Stravinsky. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky [a] (17 June [ O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music .
1 day ago · The Egyptian pharaoh and unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt was carried off and then killed by a hippopotamus. [2] [3] Draco of Athens. c. 620 BC. The Athenian lawmaker was reportedly smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre in Aegina, Greece.
1 day ago · Oklahoma is the 20th-largest state in the United States, covering an area of 69,895 square miles (181,030 km 2 ), with 68,591 square miles (177,650 km 2) of land and 1,304 square miles (3,380 km 2) of water. [64] It lies partly in the Great Plains near the geographical center of the 48 contiguous states.
5 hours ago · It Wasn't A Dream, It Was A Flood: 1974: Frank Stanford, Irving Broughton: It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles: 1993: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Richard Wilson: Régine Konckler, Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Jean-Luc Ormières, Richard Wilson It's My Country Too: Muslim Americans: 2005: Clifford Bestall: Ruhi Hamid: Italy in ...
5 hours ago · The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections will be held on November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections, to elect representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states, as well as 6 non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and the inhabited U.S. territories.
1 day ago · Porgy (1925), by DuBose Heyward, adapted into the play in 1927. George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935), based on the novel Porgy, is set in Charleston and was partially written at Folly Beach, near Charleston. A film version was released in 1959. North and South, series of books by John Jakes, was partially set in Charleston.
