At the time of the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, in the late spring of 1989, English…
The disco held in a Macedonian community center in Gothenburg was intended to provide some Halloween fun for the youth…
In 1993, Thailand’s worst-ever industrial disaster killed more than 180 workers in a catastrophic conflagration. Indeed, although it received little…
A major interchange on the London Underground system is King’s Cross St Pancras, a station complex that serves both over…
The difficult and dangerous Salang Pass crosses the Hindu Kush mountain range that bisects Afghanistan, traditionally making travel between southern…
Friday the 13th turned out to be a tragically unlucky day for 48 young people who died in a 1981…
It was a typically busy Saturday night at the Beverley Hills Supper Club, a North Kentucky nightclub which was a…
If ever there was a contrast between the high hopes of a project’s designers and that project’s eventual outcome, the…
The particular horror of school fires is that in addition to the personal tragedy of each child’s death, the fire…
Chongqing’s importance is geographical: it sits on a hilly peninsula overlooking the confluence of the Yangzi and its principal tributary,…