The Great Fall River fire of 1928 occurred on February 2–3, 1928 and destroyed a vast portion of downtown Fall River, Massachusetts. Although the city...

landscape is still prominent. Fall River's official motto is "We'll Try", dating back to the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1843. Nicknamed The Scholarship...

1925 Decatur St. Fire, Atlanta, Georgia, left 6 firefighters dead, 8 others seriously injured. 1928 – Great Fall River fire of 1928, Massachusetts 1931 –...

The city of Fall River, Massachusetts once had over 120 cotton textile mills and was the leading cotton textile center in the United States during the...

by William C. Atwater. The Great Fall River fire of 1928 damaged the Fall River Navigation Company building. Fall River Navigation Company was active...

which made a schoolhouse of it. It was burned in the great fire of July 1843. Other early churches established in Fall River include the First Baptist...

Pocasset Mills were the site of the origin of the Great Fall River Fire of 1928. The mills were destroyed along with a vast portion of the city's business district...

Old Colony & Fall River Railroad Museum was a small railroad museum located in Fall River Massachusetts. The Old Colony and Fall River Railroad operated...

businesses. After the closing and subsequent 1928 fire of the Pocasset Mills, the property of the Fall River Manufacturing Company was occupied by various...

impacted by the Great Fire of 1928, which destroyed many buildings located in what is now the historic district. As a result, many of the buildings date...

The Great Fall River Fire of 1928 destroyed the Pocasset Mills and the adjacent Granite Block, which had both been constructed directly over the river to...

Fall River F.C. was an American soccer club based in Fall River, Massachusetts. During the 1920s and early 1930s they were one of the most successful...

The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire...

The defense of the Great Wall (simplified Chinese: 长城抗战; traditional Chinese: 長城抗戰; pinyin: Chángchéng Kàngzhàn) (January 1 – May 31, 1933) was a campaign...

Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, also known as the San Felipe Segundo hurricane, was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the North Atlantic...

partially drained by the river. The Caney Fork flows through two impoundments— Center Hill Lake and Great Falls Lake— both of which create sizeable artificial...

member of the league's Eastern Conference, having moved to the conference in 2002. The franchise, named in memory of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, was...

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical sports drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Colin Welland and produced by David Puttnam. It is...

an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the northern plains, extending into the subarctic and...

Keelung Rivers. Although it was supposed to be based on the Villalobos, the replica's final design was closer to that of 1928 river gunboats than that of the...

Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk...

circus act and group of daredevil stunt performers who perform highwire acts without a safety net. They were first known as The Great Wallendas, but the...

A fire resulting from an explosion at an antiques exhibition in Todi, Italy killed 34. May 11 – The Notre Dame de Lourdes Church fire in Fall River, Massachusetts...

create the Eastern Soccer League. These actions, part of the 1928–1929 "Soccer Wars", along with the Great Depression, financially devastated the ASL, ESL and...

(equivalent to $70.1 million in 2023) to the effort in March 1928. The creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park proved much more complex than...

2024) The Fall of the House of Usher: (1928 American, 1928 French & 1950) Fall in Love Like a Star (2015) Fall of the Mohicans (1965) The Fall of the Roman...

Mississippi River is the primary river, and second-longest river, of the largest drainage basin in the United States. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca...

The Iowa flood of 2008 was a hydrological event involving most of the rivers in eastern Iowa which began June 8 and continued until July 1. Flooding continued...

Applications 15.6 (2005): 1915-1928. online Peirce, Neal R. The Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States (1973);...

Chiang resumed command. By April 1928, the nationalist forces had advanced to the Yellow River. With the assistance of allied warlords, including Yan Xishan...