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On May 27, 1997, an extremely violent multi-vortex tornado struck the community of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people and injuring a further 12. [1] The tornado caused $40.1 million (1997 USD) in damages and was the subject of multiple well-known photographs, earning the tornado the nickname of the "Dead Man Walking ". [2]
Part of the tornado outbreaks of 1997. A deadly tornado outbreak occurred in Central Texas during the afternoon and evening of May 27, 1997, in conjunction with a southwestward-moving cluster of supercell thunderstorms. These storms produced 20 tornadoes, mainly along the Interstate 35 corridor from northeast of Waco to north of San Antonio.
The 2020 Cookeville tornado occurred in the early morning hours of March 3, 2020, when a fast-moving, violent and extremely destructive tornado tracked across Putnam County, Tennessee, directly impacting the cities of Baxter and Cookeville. The National Weather Service forecast office in Nashville, Tennessee, rated the worst of the damage from ...
The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of a man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. The unidentified man in the image was trapped on the upper floors of the North Tower , and it is unclear whether he fell while searching for safety or he jumped to ...
Myrtles Plantation is a historic home and former antebellum plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, United States, built in 1796. It is often reported that 10 murders occurred in the house, but historical records only indicate the murder of William Winter. [1] In 2001, Unsolved Mysteries filmed a segment about the alleged hauntings at the ...
Stu Macher (left) and Billy Loomis, the original Ghostface killers.. Ghostface first appears in the opening scene of Scream (1996). The character, voiced by Roger L. Jackson, calls and taunts teenager Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) with horror clichés and trivia questions, eventually murdering her boyfriend Steve Orth (Kevin Patrick Walls) and then her.
70. Damage. $75 million (2008 USD) Part of the Tornado outbreak of May 22–27, 2008 and Tornadoes of 2008. The 2008 Parkersburg–New Hartford tornado was an extremely powerful EF5 wedge tornado that devastated portions of northeast Iowa, most notably the town of Parkersburg, during the afternoon of May 25, 2008, resulting in catastrophic ...
William H. Mumler (1832–1884) was an American spirit photographer who worked in New York City and Boston. [1] His first spirit photograph was apparently an accident—a self-portrait which, when developed, also revealed the "spirit" of his deceased cousin. Mumler then left his job as an engraver to pursue spirit photography full-time, taking ...