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The 41 Best Horror Movies of the 2000s
pop culture Ready for a spooky throwback? One37pm editors select every item that appears on this page, and the company may earn compensation through affiliate links within the story. You can learn more about that process here. We've blinked, and apparently we're now about to approach spooky season. That means it's time for the annual discussion of what horror movies are the best and all that jazz.
Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town
Home › Article › Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town 75 years after Donora’s great inversion Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town by Andy McPhee University of Pittsburgh Press, $24.95.
Donora Death Fog – The First Days - Belt Magazine
By Andy McPhee The following is an excerpt from Donora Death Fog by Andy McPhee, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Tuesday was just an average day in Donora and vicinity, when nothing particularly special happened. Nothing, that is, except a confluence of weather conditions that would place an environmental lid on the valley. No one knew then how many days the fog would last, nor how long the lid would hover over the valley. Yes, Tuesday was, almost, an average day in Donora.
Donora Death Fog
With a forward by Jennifer Richmond-Bryant In October 1948, a seemingly average fog descended on the tiny mill town of Donora, Pennsylvania. With a population of fewer than fifteen thousand, the town’s main industry was steel and zinc mills—mills that continually emitted pollutants into the air. The six-day smog event left twenty-one people dead and thousands sick. Even after the fog lifted, hundreds more died or were left with lingering health problems.
Washington Independent Review of Books
Diane Kiesel is a former judge of the Supreme Court of New York. A former journalist, she is the author of Domestic Violence: Law Policy and Practice, published in 2017 by the Carolina Academic Press, and She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer, published in 2015 by the University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books.
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