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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 ...
It is 19 miles (31 km) east of Apple Valley, and 20 miles (32 km) north of Big Bear Lake. Distant surrounding communities include Yucca Valley which lies 45 miles (72 km) east via State Route 247/Old Woman Springs Road, and Barstow, which is 26 miles (42 km) north via State Route 247/Barstow Road.
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 ...
ZIP code. 35242 [2] Area code (s) 205, 659. GNIS feature ID. 2582679 [3] Highland Lakes is a census-designated place in Shelby County, Alabama, United States. Its population was 3,926 as of the 2010 census. [4]
Organized crime – notable homicides involving the Italian-American organized crime syndicate or crime family based in Chicago. These include the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre and the 1977 murder of Sam Giancana. Lynchings and race riots – homicides associated with lynching and race riots. These include the 1844 Killing of Joseph Smith ...
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.
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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.