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  2. Cuyahoga River - Wikipedia

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    The upper Cuyahoga River, starting at 1,093 feet (333 m) over 84 miles (135 km) from its mouth, drops in elevation fairly steeply, creating falls and rapids in some places; the lower Cuyahoga River only drops several feet along the last several miles of the lower river to 571 feet (174 m) [4] at the mouth on Lake Erie, resulting in relatively ...

  3. Smoke on the Water: What We Can Learn 50 Years After ... - AOL

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    In June 1969, a fire on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River-the last in a series of big blazes spanning decades-spurred the government to make sweeping environmental changes that altered the course of ...

  4. The Big Us - Wikipedia

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    McEldowney left in May 1969 to work in an antiwar GI coffeehouse in South Carolina, and starting with the issue of Oct. 14, 1969 (vol. 3, no. 2) the paper changed its name to Burning River News, commemorating a famous incident in which the toxic waste on the surface of the Cuyahoga River in downtown Cleveland caught fire. In 1970 it merged with ...

  5. Robert Jones (Ohio lawyer) - Wikipedia

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    After leaving the U.S. Attorney's office in 1972, Jones was brought in to the Cleveland Legal Department. Perk left office in 1977. The Ohio EPA, The NEORSD, The City of Cleveland and many others have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the recovery of the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie since the fire of 1969, including events and news articles.

  6. Ralph Perk - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Perk meeting President Richard Nixon in 1973 Former Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes "passes the torch" to Mayor-Elect Ralph J. Perk in 1971. As mayor, Perk benefited from his good connections with President Richard Nixon, allowing Cleveland to obtain federal funds to aid neighborhoods and to help crack down on city crime in the era of Irish American mobster Danny Greene. [3]

  7. James Simone - Wikipedia

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    Simone was shot in the face at point blank range. While laying semi-conscious on the basement floor, Simone managed to return fire and fatally wound Workman, who had continued to fire his .38 caliber revolver at the downed officers. [citation needed] In 2008, Simone, while off-duty, entered a bank to deposit a check.

  8. The L.A. fire victims: Who they were - AOL

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    The fire still seemed distant, and Kelley declined to evacuate with them. At 1:22 a.m. the next day, her grandmother responded to a text from Navarro in which she had asked how things were going ...

  9. Another '70's flashback: The meat crisis - AOL

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    With the return of inflation, insane gas prices, and Peter Brady, it's started to look like the 1970's revival is almost complete. However, as any cultural historian will attest, no reiteration of ...