• thick. The Coal Miner statue was originally commissioned in 1963 by the State of Illinois, after 15 years of advocacy work by coal miner, artist, and...
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  • 1946 painting American Coal Miner into a permanent, sculptural memorial to coal miners. Szaton's 7-ft. bronze statue, The Coal Miner, is displayed on the...
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    anthracite or "hard" coal, which produces higher heat value and less smoke than "soft" or bituminous coal. The strike never resumed, as the miners received a 10...
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    Benham, Kentucky (category Coal towns in Kentucky)
    State Resort Park, proposed Kentucky Coal Museum Kentucky Coal Museum Benham Schoolhouse Inn Coal Miner Statue "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States...
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  • Koch, who along with eight other local miners died in the 1947 Centralia mine disaster. Plaque Reads: Centralia Coal Company Mine No 5 Disaster On March...
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  • The Miner's Memorial in Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia, was named the "Official Coal Miner's Memorial for the Commonwealth of Virginia" on 22 June...
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    Ludlow Massacre (category Coal Wars)
    200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. Approximately 21 people were killed, including miners' wives and children...
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    Mind)", "One's on the Way", "Fist City", and "Coal Miner's Daughter". The 1980 musical film Coal Miner's Daughter was based on her life. Lynn received...
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  • considered to be the patroness of the coal miners. The statue of Dhori Mata was accidentally found on 12 June 1956 by a coal field worker name Rupa Satnami from...
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    The Coal miners' strike of 1873, was a strike against wage cuts in the Mahoning, Shenango, and Tuscarawas Valleys of northeastern Ohio and northwestern...
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    Monument to John Cockerill, Brussels (category Statues in Belgium)
    puddler Lejeune and the coal miner Jacquemin. However here, unlike in Seraing, the workers are represented seated and their statues, made by the Compagnie...
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    because the miners were deliberately working slowly but the miners claimed it was because of difficult working conditions.: 33  The coal seam at No. 2...
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  • Smithsonian. Retrieved 6 June 2010. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1992). "Coal Miner (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 6 June 2010. Save Outdoor Sculptures...
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    Monongah mining disaster (category Coal mining disasters in West Virginia)
    was a coal mine explosion on December 6, 1907, at Fairmont Coal Company's Nos. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia, which killed 362 miners. It has...
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  • It riles. It galls Such grovelling to Goldenballs. In the end, the old coal miner, who represents the spirit of Prometheus in the film, arrives in Greece...
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    striking coal miners and their families, in the Ludlow Massacre on 20 April 1914 when the Colorado National Guard attacked. In retaliation, armed miners attacked...
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  • closed in the 1990s. The over life-size bronze statue, on a rock plinth, shows a kneeling coal miner testing for methane gas. It was commissioned by...
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    where he started casting his own bronze sculpture and statues. He also created a bronze statue The Miner of Auchengeich as a memorial in Moodiesburn near Glasgow...
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  • Hurricane Creek mine disaster (category Coal mining disasters in Kentucky)
    gates, each with a hanging coal miner hat, to honor each coal miner who died in the explosion, a bronze statue of a coal miner, and two walls that consist...
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    William Abraham outside the Llwynypia Miners' institute. Much of the cost of the statue was met by donations from the miners of his pits. In 1908 the Glamorgan...
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    Crandall Canyon Mine (category Coal mines in the United States)
    bituminous underground coal mine in northwestern Emery County, Utah, United States. The mine made headline news when six miners were trapped by a collapse...
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    Senghenydd colliery disaster (category Coal mining disasters in Wales)
    439 miners and a rescuer, is the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom. Universal Colliery, on the South Wales Coalfield, extracted steam coal, which...
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    pitwheel and a statue of a miner holding a child, wrapped in a traditional Welsh shawl, in memoriam and recognition of the area's booming coal industry. The...
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  • arranged hideouts and underground cells and stockpiled weapons. Some miners sabotaged coal production in acts of resistance against the German authorities...
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    erected concrete statues at the coal mine make clear the official Communist party verdict on their comparative standing: a towering statue of the young Mao...
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  • New York. In 1921, he moved in Pittston, Pennsylvania, working as a coal miner; Sciandra became an enforcer and bootlegger for Bufalino crime family...
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  • Another book by John W. Hevener, Which Side Are You On? The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931–39 (University of Illinois Press, 2002) is also titled after the...
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    forester and later a coal-miner. He took the surname Çabuk in 1934 with the passing of the Surname Law. He died of pneumonia in 1939. A statue of him carrying...
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    1913. A miner setting shots to blast coal from the coal face re-used a hole left over from a previous failed shot, and the result was a coal dust explosion...
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    Scranton, Pennsylvania (category Municipalities of the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania)
    system of coal veins underground. Miners, who in the early years were typically Welsh and Irish, were hired as cheaply as possible by the coal barons. The...
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