Dust blown from the Southern Plains was far reaching. Areas like New York City and Washington D.C. experienced "dust blizzards," in which dust would darken the sky and infiltrate homes and buildings. Many perished from "dust pneumonia," a condition that caused difficulty breathing and chest pa...
While the earthquake itself is not responsible for this, secondary effects which occur after the quake do. In most cases, this leads to collapse of buildings, triggering of fires and volcanoes among other man made disasters. Some of the quakes that went down history books as worst natural disa...
“We have successfully completed the world’s most difficult shipwreck search, battling constantly shifting sea-ice, blizzards, and temperatures dropping down to -18C. We have achieved what many people said was impossible.”
It got a lot easier to keep food fresh at home in the 1920s, when the refrigerator started to become an essential appliance for every kitchen. Manufacturers produced about5,000 refrigeratorsin the U.S. in 1921, according to History Magazine (via The Packer). Over the next decade, another ...
Before ‘Mad Men’ January Jones Served Blizzards To Sioux Falls Pettigrew Home and Museum Google Maps Steetview Pettigrew Home and Museum The former home of South Dakota’s first senator,R.F. Pettigrewis now a museum all about life in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Free. ...
Some twenty dust storms or "black blizzards" swept through the prairie lands of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas in just one day. Powerful winds carried ominous clouds of dust and soil all over the country, blocking the sun, and covering everything in up to six feet of black powder. That day...