Search results
2 hours ago · Jamaica experienced torrential rainfall and life-threatening flash flooding Wednesday. Early Thursday, the hurricane center said the Caymans were forecast to get 4 to 6 inches of rain from Beryl ...
14 hours ago · The following is a list of stadiums in the United States. They are ranked by capacity, which is the maximum number of spectators the stadium can normally accommodate. All U.S. stadiums with a current capacity of 10,000 or more are included in the list. The majority of these stadiums are used for American football, either in college football or ...
14 hours ago · V Missouri: 370 Robert Burton Gooden: 309 188 250: 1930 Los Angeles (Suffragan) 371 George Craig Stewart: 247 213 225: 1930 VI Chicago: 372 Henry Knox Sherrill: 247 171 221: 1930 IX Massachusetts: PB20: 373 Frederick D. Goodwin: 258 194 244: 1930 IX Virginia: 374 Charles Kendall Gilbert: 247 224 244: 1930 XI New York: 375 Robert N. Spencer: 270 ...
14 hours ago · The Chicago metropolitan area, also referred to as the Greater Chicago Area and Chicagoland, is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the Midwest, containing the City of Chicago along with its surrounding suburbs and satellite cities. Encompassing 10,286 square mi (28,120 km 2 ), the metropolitan area ...
14 hours ago · An extensive telegraph system was introduced in the 1860s, which improved communication across the United States, making it easier to spread information about the whereabouts of pigeon flocks. After being opened up to the railroads, the town of Plattsburgh, New York , is estimated to have shipped 1.8 million pigeons to larger cities in 1851 alone at a price of 31 to 56 cents a dozen.
14 hours ago · John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician. He was a United States senator from California and was the first Republican nominee for president of the U.S. in 1856 and founder of the California Republican Party when he was nominated. He lost the election to Democrat James ...
14 hours ago · The location of the fair was decided through several rounds of voting by the United States House of Representatives. The first ballot showed Chicago with a large lead over New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C., but short of a majority. Chicago broke the 154-vote majority threshold on the eighth ballot, receiving 157 votes to New York's 107.
