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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to ...
Three Rivers Arts Festival is an outdoor music and arts festival held each June in the Downtown district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The festival features live music and performance art, as well as visual art and vendors who sell their wares. The event is centered in Point State Park. Founded in 1960 by the Women's Committee of the Carnegie ...
The progressive derecho tracked across a large section of the Midwestern United States and across the central Appalachians into the mid-Atlantic states on the afternoon and evening of June 29, 2012, and into the early morning of June 30, 2012. It resulted in a total of 22 deaths, millions of power outages across the entire affected region, and ...
The Washington D.C. Temple (known as the Washington Temple until 1999) is the 18th constructed and 16th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is located in Kensington, Maryland, United States, just north of Washington, D.C., near the Capital Beltway. The intent to build the temple was announced on November 15 ...
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire (PBF) provides fire suppression and prevention for the City of Pittsburgh, as well as BLS response on medical details. [ 3] In all, the bureau is responsible for 55.5 square miles (144 km 2) with a population of 305,841 as of the 2013 Census estimation. [ 4] The Bureau was the first fire department in the United ...
Jul. 24—Firefighters were beginning to battle a large fire around 11 p.m., after an explosion was reported earlier Monday night at Brunot Island on the Ohio River, authorities said. Emergency ...
Civic Arena (Pittsburgh) / 40.44167°N 79.99000°W / 40.44167; -79.99000. The Civic Arena, formerly the Civic Auditorium and later Mellon Arena, was an arena located in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Civic Arena primarily served as the home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city's National Hockey League (NHL) franchise, from 1967 ...
In an effort to recreate the “peace and love” vibes of the iconic 1969 Woodstock music festival, concert organizers chose to celebrate the event’s 30th anniversary with Woodstock ’99.