Search results for "Port Chicago disaster" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 9, 1944, occurred three weeks after the Port Chicago disaster, in which 258 out of the 320 African-American sailors in the ordnance battalion refused ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- Battus I, in 630 B.C.E., ten miles from its port, Apollonia (Marsa Sousa). ... Cyrene, with its port of Apollonia (Marsa Susa), remained an important ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- Emigrants departed from an English port (generally Liverpool) and ... * Christy, Howard A. "Weather, Disaster and Responsibility: An ...42 KB (6,112 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- during World War I helping to retake the port city of Fiume, which he ruled ... public, still battered by the Caporetto disaster. On August 9, 1918, as commander ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- In 1833 John McCoy established West Port along the Santa Fe Trail ... earning it the nickname America's inland port. Chris Gutierrez ...46 KB (6,922 words) - 17:38, 14 May 2024
- The first man-made reactor, Chicago Pile-1, achieved criticality on ... Three Mile Island, and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster played a part in stopping ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- federal funding of national roads and port improvements. Seven states ... 1861, at the Battle of Fort Sumter, in the port of Charleston, triggering ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
- #039;s on the beaches, the only deep water port in Allied hands was at Cherbourg ... goal included opening the urgently needed port of Antwerp, and their long ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- care is, in many countries, the first port-of-call for patients with ... * Disaster medicine deals with medical aspects of emergency preparedness ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- it had grown to nearly 100,000. However disaster struck during the Black ... in South London and in the East End, the Port of London expanded downstream ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- the remaining targets (which included the port facilities) while suffering ... or even if the carriers had been caught in port and sunk. U.S. industrial ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- an attack against Brest, the French port in the Bay of Biscay. The ... *Longford, Elizabeth. Wellington: Pillar of State. Academy Chicago ...54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
- of unseen creeks to the Igbo stronghold of Port Harcourt. They arrived safely ... The Achebe family narrowly escaped disaster several times during the ...79 KB (12,034 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- to secure it against the Byzantine enemy. Port cities like Acre, Haifa, Caesarea ... to by Palestinians as the Nakba ("disaster" or "cataclysm ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
