Conflagrations

The difficult and dangerous Salang Pass crosses the Hindu Kush mountain range that bisects Afghanistan,

Friday the 13th turned out to be a tragically unlucky day for 48 young people

It was a typically busy Saturday night at the Beverley Hills Supper Club, a North

If ever there was a contrast between the high hopes of a project’s designers and

The particular horror of school fires is that in addition to the personal tragedy of

Chongqing’s importance is geographical: it sits on a hilly peninsula overlooking the confluence of the

The arcaded facade of Ballantyne’s Department Store made a grand statement in the heart of

Symbolically, Dresden ended what began in Coventry. Early 1945 was getting towards the end of

The disaster got its name from a front-page photograph of Emmett Kelly carried by the

The only entrance to the Cocoanut Grove was the revolving front door. Other exits had

The Blitz was not a single event. It was a World War II ordeal by

The Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal was nearly full for the Sunday matinee. The

If any single incident could provide a manifesto for the existence of labor unions, it

The Iroquois Theater was bang up-to-date. Designed like a Paris opera house with a 19m

Even today visitors to Boston can feel the waft of the city’s once evident superiority

Chicago was born in a hurry to grow up, from a hamlet of 150 people

Mobile, Alabama had been a frontier town in French, British and Spanish hands before it

It is taught at every military academy in the world, and engrained into the cultural