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1. Justice after 80 years for the men of Port Chicago

Author

Marshall, Thurgood, Jr. and Roosevelt, Tracy

Subjects
United States. Navy -- Powers and duties, Navies -- Officials and employees, Ports -- Safety and security measures, Mutiny -- Cases, African American sailors -- Casualties -- Cases, Explosions -- History -- Casualties, Exoneration -- Laws, regulations and rules, Company legal issue, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Thurgood Marshall Jr., Tracy Roosevelt Eighty years ago, in perhaps the worst home-front disaster of World War II, a series of explosions in the ammunition depot at Port Chicago, [...]

Published
2024

2. The Taliban claims responsibility for deadly car bombing in Kabul

Subjects
Beirut Explosions, 2020, Political activists -- Cases, Marine accidents -- History -- Casualties, Explosions -- History -- Casualties, Reformers -- Cases, Bombings -- Investigations -- Casualties -- Lebanon -- Belarus -- Afghanistan, Social reformers -- Cases, Incitement (Criminal law) -- Cases, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Taliban -- Military aspects
Abstract

Top of The World -- our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. (http://theworld.org/newsletters) Subscribe here . Afghanistan The Taliban (https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-dc70d26462d8bdfd9f88d4a2bdd8a5b8) has claimed responsibility for a car bomb [...]

Published
2021

3. 60 years later, a major underwater explosion in B.C. still fascinates

Subjects
British Columbia -- Social aspects, Explosions -- History -- Casualties, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: CBC News Sandra Parish is looking over at a span of ocean once called 'one of the vilest stretches of water in the world,' from the comfort of her [...]

Published
2018

5. Gas regulators like the one blamed for deadly Flower Branch blast were supposed to be replaced

Author

Thompson, Steve

Subjects
United States. National Transportation Safety Board -- Powers and duties, Washington Gas Light Co. -- Planning -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Safety and security measures, Gas governors -- Planning -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Safety and security measures, Explosions -- History -- Casualties, Gas utilities -- Planning -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Safety and security measures, Government regulation, Company business planning, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Steve Thompson Mercury gas regulators -- like the one blamed in a deadly 2016 explosion in Silver Spring -- were supposed to be replaced across Maryland years earlier, according [...]

Published
2019

6. Canadian City Remembers Great Explosion, 100 Years Later

Author

Austen, Ian

Subjects
Halifax, Nova Scotia -- History, Halifax Explosion, 1917 -- History, Explosions -- History -- Casualties, Marine accidents -- Casualties -- History, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia -- To much of the world, this city is linked to the sinking of the Titanic because many of its victims' bodies were brought here to Halifax [...]

Published
2017

7. Carnage and Heroism: Memories of '56 Blast

Author

Williams, Keith

Subjects
New York -- History, Heroism -- Social aspects -- History, Explosions -- History -- Casualties, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Sixty years ago, the pier belonging to the Luckenbach Steamship Company was the largest in New York Harbor: one-third of a mile long and 175 feet wide. On Dec. 3, [...]

Published
2016

8. Admirers of park on grounds of historically significant Allegheny Arsenal look to build on potential

Author

Smith, Craig

Subjects
Parks -- Military aspects -- Protection and preservation -- Remodeling and renovation -- Pennsylvania, Arsenals -- History -- Accidents, Explosions -- History -- Casualties, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Craig Smith Sept. 16--Randall Sulkin sees opportunity when he views historic Arsenal Park from the window of his Lawrence­ville home. 'I love Lawrenceville; I love Pittsburgh,' said Sulkin, 43, [...]

Published
2012

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