The Great Flood of 1927 accelerated the Great Migration, as African Americans, disproportionately displaced, sought economic opportunity in cities such as Chicago and Detroit. “Old Mississippi River, what a fix you left me in,” Bessie Smith sings in “Homeless Blues,” one of many songs about...
The deluge resulted in record flooding along smaller streams and some of the worst flooding along the Ohio River since at least 1964, and in some places since the Great Flood of 1937. Several tributaries of the Ohio River set all-time record river crests that still stand today. It rained, ...
the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, with the city of Cairo located on the wide part of the spear head, with the 6500 acre Cairo Industrial District connected therewith to the north, forms the extreme southern tip of Illinois, at about the same latitude as Richmond, Virginia. ...
WT Li - 《Journal of Geophysical Research D Atmospheres Jgr》 被引量: 0发表: 2018年 Troubled Waters: Cincinnati's West End and the Great Flood of 1937 n August 2005, the city of New Orleans was hit by the worst hurri cane in its history. Ihe ravages of Hurricane Katrina and the extre...
California Washed Away: The Great Flood of 1862 来自 国家科技图书文献中心 喜欢 0 阅读量: 21 作者:J Null,J Hulbert 摘要: When the first storms of the winter season arrived in California in December 2005, they were initially a welcome sign that the state's long dry season was finally over...
好啊,吃饭吧 I know nothing of these things, 我对小孩子什么都不懂啊 when the child is born you need a woman. 生孩子的时候要有个女人帮忙吧? Perhaps here's a woman in the Great House 地主家有没有可以帮忙的人? Someone you knew in the kitchen! 在厨下有哪个你认识的 Not in that house...
one of the most beautiful books i have ever read. a story of amelia earhart and fred noonan after landing off the coast of new guinea in 1937. and she talks about her life before becoming the great flyer. it was a very unusual book. so beautiful to read and so full of joy and ...
Agnes Smedley wrote in her diary on Oct. 23, 1937 that she was writing in the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army where she had been for the past months. She even took part in military activities and gave a great deal of publicity to the struggle against Japanese invaders. She often ...
Most of these districts lay along the two banks of the Tisza River, and people flocked into the great mezővárosok, or oppidi (towns), that are still a feature of the area. There they enjoyed a measure of protection, but the countryside between these towns was abandoned except for ...
following the usage of theBible. The termpharaoh, however, is derived from the Egyptianper ʿaa(“great estate”) and dates to thedesignationof the royal palace as an institution. This term for palace was used increasingly from about 1400bceas a way of referring to the living king; in ...