BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature
Guides
Criticism & Essays Criticism &
Essays
Questions & Answers Questions &
Answers
Lesson Plans Lesson
Plans
My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Search "Cuyahoga River"

 
Not What You Meant?  There are 15 definitions for Big Creek.  Also try: Cuyahoga.

Cuyahoga River

Print-Friendly
About 11 pages (3,327 words) in 3 products

"Cuyahoga River" Search Results
Contents:
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
Cuyahoga River Summary
540 words, approx. 2 pages
This 103-mi (166-km) long tributary of Lake Erie is a classic industrial river, with, however, one monumental distinction: it caught fire–twice. The first fire, in 1959, burned for eight days; fireboats merely spread the blaze. Typical of the...
summary from source:
Cuyahoga River Information
2,698 words, approx. 9 pages
The Cuyahoga River (pronounced /ˌkaɪəˈhɔgə/, or kuy-a-HAW-ga) is located in Northeast Ohio in the United States. Outside of Ohio, the river is most famous for being "the river that caught on fire"—which has actually happened more than...


Ask any question on Cuyahoga River and get it answered FAST!
Answer questions in BookRags Q&A and earn points toward
discounted or even FREE Study Guides and other BookRags products!
Learn more about BookRags Q&A
News and Journals
summary from source:

Crain's Cleveland Business
River group eyes plan to pump more air into channel. (Cuyahoga River in Ohio)
12/02/1996: 816 words, approx. 3 pages
Aquatic life in the well-traveled shipping channel near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River would benefit from a breath of fresh air. But providing the fish with more oxygen won't come cheap. Three options unveiled last week by a group formed to...
summary from source:

Ideas on Liberty
The Cuyahoga revisited
05/01/2000: 1,145 words, approx. 4 pages
Party in the summer of 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught fire. Piles of logs, picnic benches, and other debris had collected below a railroad trestle, which impeded their movement down the river. These piles only lacked a spark to set them afire. A passing...
summary from source:

AP News
Ind. refinery dispute illustrates debate
9/10/2007: 744 words, approx. 3 pages
The images of oil and debris burning in Cleveland's Cuyahoga River in 1969 still stand as an iconic symbol of modern-day industrial pollution.Subsequent demands for environmental protection led to passage in 1972 of the federal Clean Water Act and pledges to eliminate discharges of pollutants...
summary from source:

AP News
3 shot dead in Ohio fireworks dispute
7/5/2007: 416 words, approx. 1 pages
A neighbor apparently angry about fireworks at a noisy Fourth of July party shot three people to death early Thursday and wounded two others, police said.Terrance Hough Jr., a 35-year-old off-duty firefighter, was arrested in connection with the shootings, police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said.No...
 


 

Cuyahoga River

Print-Friendly
About 11 pages (3,327 words) in 3 products




Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy |