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1885 explosion. The removal of obstructive rocks from Hell Gate, a narrow tidal strait in New York City's East River and a major water transportation route, began in 1849, when French engineer Benjamin Maillefert, cleared some of the rocks.
The name "Hell Gate" is a corruption of the Low German or Dutch phrase Hellegat which means “bright gate”. It first appeared on a Dutch map as Helle Gadt. [2] The name was originally applied to the entirety of the East River, by Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, the first European known to have navigated the strait, who bestowed the name sometime during his 1614–1616 voyage aboard the Onrust ...
The Darvaza gas crater (Turkmen: Garagum ýalkymy), [1] also known as the Door to Hell or Gates of Hell, officially, the Shining of Karakum, is a burning natural gas field collapsed into a cavern near Darvaza, Turkmenistan. [2] Hundreds of natural gas fires illuminate the floor and rim of the crater. The crater has been burning since the 1980s.
On 10 October 1885 in New York City, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers detonated 300,000 pounds (150 t) of explosives on Flood Rock, annihilating the island, in order to clear the Hell Gate tidal strait for the benefit of East River shipping traffic. [17]
2008 – The General Slocum disaster plays a prominent role in Richard Crabbe's novel Hell's Gate. [citation needed] 2009 – The General Slocum tragedy is described in detail in Glenn Stout's 2009 biography of Gertrude Ederle, Young Woman and the Sea. Stout uses the incident, in which many women and young children drowned, to help explain the ...
Photos capture the devastation following an explosion and fire at a home in the Snowball Gate section of Middletown on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. A Go-Fund-Me campaign is being set up for the family
Hells Gate (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 2 November 2022, at 12:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
An explosion outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on New Year's Day, involving a Tesla Cybertruck, left Army veteran Matthew Livelsberger dead and injured seven others.