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A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which an electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning.
1981 Danish printers' strike, 11-week strike in the printing industry in Denmark. [10] 1981 Dannon Yogurt strike, 5-week strike by Danone workers in New York, represented by the Milk Drivers and Dairy Employees. [11] 1981 Wagner College strike, 20-day strike by faculty at Wagner College. [12] 1981 Writers Guild of America strike
Lightning injuries are divided into direct strikes, side splash, contact injury, and ground current. [1] Ground current occurs when the lightning strikes nearby and travels to the person through the ground. [1] Side splash makes up about a third of cases and occurs when lightning strikes nearby and jumps through the air to the person. [1]
The first actors strikes came in the 1950s, and a SWG strike in 1953 secured the first television residuals. But protests largely tapered off by the late 1980s.
The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. [3] [4] The only unaffected neighborhoods in the city were in southern Queens (including neighborhoods of the Rockaways), which were part of the Long Island Lighting Company system, as well as the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, and a few other large apartment and ...
A series of lightning strikes spidered across the New York City skyline the evening of Saturday, April 1, a few of which stretched from the World Trade Center into the clouds above in a dazzling ...
A strong thunderstorm rolled through New York City around 8 p.m. ET, By Dan Mennella A fireworks display on July 2 may be a bit premature for some, but Mother Nature apparently couldn't wait to ...
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