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The Slater fire crossed the Oregon border into Josephine County, Oregon, within hours of initial attack, with little containment. [1] By November 8, the Slater fire was 87% contained and the Devil fire was 67% contained, at 157,220 acres (63,625 ha) and 8,857 acres (3,584 ha) respectively. [5] Both fires were declared contained on November 16 ...
The name of Blackbeard has been attached to many local attractions, such as Charleston's Blackbeard's Cove. [130] His name and persona have also featured heavily in literature. He is the main subject of Matilda Douglas's fictional 1835 work Blackbeard: A page from the colonial history of Philadelphia. [131]
Robert Maynard (19 September 1684 – 4 January 1751) was a British Royal Navy officer. Little is known about Maynard's early life, other than that he was born in England in 1684 and then later joined the English Navy.
He moved to Malibu three decades ago and rented a studio attached to a century-old red barn-style house near the beach, his mother, Carol Smith, told CNN. When the landlord later offered him the ...
About 1,500 structures were destroyed, almost 100,000 acres were burned and three people were killed. So when the Mountain fire ignited last week not far from the 2018 footprint for the Woolsey ...
The Hughes Fire began near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County on Wednesday morning and quickly grew to over 10,000 acres. It had night 10,396 acres and was 36% contained by Thursday evening.
Blackbeard makes an appearance in Neal Stephenson's The System of the World. A younger Blackbeard appears in Wayne Thomas Batson's Isle of Fire as the new quartermaster of notorious pirate captain Bartholomew Thorne. Blackbeard is a member of the jury in the short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benét.
The death toll rose to 25, including 17 people who died in the Eaton fire and eight who died in the Palisades fire, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said on Tuesday, Jan. 14. Meanwhile, 26 ...