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Connecticut State Police photo. The best-known victim of the circus fire was a young blond girl wearing a white dress. She is known only as "Little Miss 1565", named after the number assigned to her body at the city's makeshift morgue. Oddly well preserved even after her death, her face has arguably become the most familiar image of the fire.
1 lip 2024 · July 6 marks the 80th remembrance of the deadliest single building or building complex fire in Connecticut history. The infamous Hartford Circus Fire happened on July 6, 1944. An estimated 168 people died that day, and experts say there were almost certainly more who lost their lives.
27 paź 2020 · Jason Reynolds's Newbery Honor, Printz Honor, and Coretta Scott King Honor–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel Long Way Down is now a gripping, galvanizing graphic novel, with haunting artwork by Danica Novgorodoff.
27 cze 2023 · Local TV news and newspapers bombarded the public with images of the infamous 1944 Hartford circus fire that claimed 167 lives and injured 700 attendees. This was the 25th anniversary of that conflagration as well as the state’s banishment of Barnum & Bailey Circus, prohibiting them from ever darkening Connecticut’s doorstep again.
Brian Fies lost his home in the California wildfires of 2017. This graphic novel is the story of that night, as well as the months that followed. What do you do when, not just your house, but your entire neighborhood burns to the ground? How do you begin the process of rebuilding?
Graphic novels are, simply defined, book-length comics. Sometimes they tell a single, continous narrative from first page to last; sometimes they are collections of shorter stories or individual comic strips.
14 gru 2022 · It's been a decade since the Sandy Hook shooting. Here are the names and pictures of the 27 victims, including 20 children, who were murdered that day.
