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A crinoline / ˈ k r ɪ n. əl. ɪ n / is a stiff or structured petticoat designed to hold out a skirt, popular at various times since the mid-19th century. Originally, crinoline described a stiff fabric made of horsehair ("crin") and cotton or linen which was used to make underskirts and as a dress lining. The term crin or crinoline continues ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
The Church of the Society fire (Tuesday, 8 December 1863) is the largest fire ever to have affected the city of Santiago, Chile. Between 2,000 and 3,000 people died, probably the largest number of people to die in an accidental fire in any one building in the world, and even one of the worst building fires of a religious building. [ 1 ]
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
Deadliest wildfire in world history. Death toll can only be estimated because entire towns with all town records were incinerated. Burned over 1.2 million acres. Occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires. Peshtigo Fire: 1910 North Idaho and Western Montana: 87/?
10 August – a fire on the Noteć Forest burned 6,000 ha (15,000 acres) of forest. 26 August – Kuźnia Raciborska fire: on a fire in and around Kuźnia Raciborska destroyed 90.62 km 2 (34.99 sq mi) of forest and killed two firefighters. [13] 2020: A fire in the Biebrza National Park burned 6,000 ha of forest.
Campbell Shopping Complex fire; Château Miranda; Cheapside Street whisky bond fire; Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1910) Collapse of the World Trade Center; Collinwood school fire; Colne Bridge Mill; 1930 Costești wooden church fire
C. Eduardo Cáceres; Reginald Tucker Caldwell; Gaius Calpurnius Aviola; Fanny Cano; Barcroft Capel Boake; Suzanne Capper; Zé Celso; Mary Channing; Charles II of Navarre