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Pennsylvania disasters : true stories of tragedy and survival /
True accounts of major disasters in Texas history are retold in this engagingly written collection. From the Johnstown floods of 1889 to the heroic actions on United Flight 193 on 9/11, Pennsylvania has been home to some of the nation's most dramatic moments. Each story reveals not only the cir...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Guilford, Connecticut :
Globe Pequot,
[2015]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Colección: | Disasters series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction; CHAPTER 1; The Yellow Fever Epidemic (1793); CHAPTER 2; The Great Pittsburgh Fire (1845); CHAPTER 3; The Camp Hill and Shohola Collisions (1856, 1864); CHAPTER 4; The Johnstown Flood (1889); CHAPTER 5; Coal Mine Calamities (1904, 1907, 1908); CHAPTER 6; Harrisburg Rail Yard Explosion (1905); CHAPTER 7; The Boyertown Opera House Fire (1908); CHAPTER 8; Eddystone and Oakdale Explosions (1917, 1918); CHAPTER 9; The Chester Bridge Collapse (1921); CHAPTER 10; The Crash of the Congressional Limited (1943); CHAPTER 11; The Donora Smog Crisis (1948); CHAPTER 12. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Wreck of the Phillies Special (1962)CHAPTER 13; Underground Centralia Fires (Since 1962); CHAPTER 14; Hurricane Agnes (1972); CHAPTER 15; Legionnaire's Disease Outbreak (1976); CHAPTER 16; Three Mile Island (1979); CHAPTER 17; The Deadly MOVE Confrontation (1985); CHAPTER 18; Tornado Outbreak (1985); CHAPTER 19; The Schoolyard Crash That Killed a Senator (1991); CHAPTER 20; The Crash of USAir Flight 427 (1994); CHAPTER 21; First the Snow, Then the Floods (1996); CHAPTER 22; The Crash of United Flight 93 (2001); CHAPTER 23; Quecreek Mine Rescue (2002); Bibliography; About the Author. | |
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