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Geography. Highland Lake is located in eastern Blount County at 33°53'3.376" North, 86°25'19.744" West (33.884271, -86.422151). [2] The town consists of homes built around Highland Lake, a reservoir on the Blackburn Fork of the Little Warrior River. The lake, at an elevation of 895 feet (273 m) above sea level, is in a valley between Blount ...
Butch Hartman, animator, producer, director for The Fairly OddParents (born in Highland Park, Michigan) Ed Emshwiller, animator, visual artist, and founder of CalArts Computer Animation Lab (born in Lansing) Al Jean, creator of The Critic, writer for The Simpsons and Family Guy (born in Farmington Hills)
Lake Highland Preparatory School traces its origins to Orlando Junior College, which was established in 1941 "as a private community college to serve white residents". [7] [8] By the 1960s, the junior college's board of trustees had rejected at least two deals that would have given money to the school if it began admitting black and Jewish students, including an offer of $1 million (roughly ...
Leonard Lake and Charles Ng: Calaveras County: 1983–1985: 11-25: Ex-Marine who had a cabin that he described as a "dungeon" where he kidnapped, raped, and murdered women [9] [136] 32: Speed Freak Killers: San Joaquin County: 1984–1999: 4–19: Methamphetamine users convicted of four murders [141] 33: Grim Sleeper: Los Angeles: 1984–2007: ...
1904 – Great Fire of Toronto, April 19 fire that destroyed a large section of Downtown Toronto, Canada. 1905 – Watson Street Lodging House fire in Glasgow, Scotland on November 19, killed 39. [5] 1908 – Rhoads Opera House fire, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killed 170. [6] 1908 – Parker Building, New York City, January 10.
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [1] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
Mobile, Alabama: 0 1 1: University of South Alabama: One person was hospitalized after a shooting on campus. [357] March 9, 2018 Lexington, Kentucky: 0 1 [n 1] 1: Frederick Douglass High School: A 16-year-old male student unintentionally shot himself with a gun he had smuggled into a classroom, sustaining an injury to his left thumb. Police ...
The Lake Bodom murders were a multiple homicide that took place in Finland on 5 June 1960. That night, four teenagers were camping on the shores of the Finnish lake, when between 4 am and 6 am, they were attacked by an unknown individual or individuals with a knife and a blunt object. Three of them died, and the fourth one was wounded but survived.