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The Belle Isle Aquarium is a public aquarium located in Belle Isle Park in Detroit, Michigan. Designed by noted architects George D. Mason and Albert Kahn, [5] it opened on August 18, 1904, and was the oldest continually operating public aquarium in North America when it closed on April 3, 2005. [2] The aquarium reopened to the public on August ...
1908 – Rhoads Opera House fire, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killed 170. [ 6] 1908 – Parker Building, New York City, January 10. 1908 – Collinwood school fire, in Collinwood, Ohio (soon absorbed by Cleveland ), on March 4, killed 175. 1909 – Flores Theater fire, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, on February 15, killed 250.
Hellshire Beach, Jamaica, is located near Portmore, and famed for its fried fish and safe swimming. [1] It has near white sands with a very small trace of black sand. [1] Exposed when there is a sea running to the south, the waters close to shore are often quite cloudy due to the stirred up sand. [1]
Stony Island is an island in the Detroit River, in southeast Michigan.It has been used for hunting and fishing as long as humans have inhabited the region; from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, it was the site of a small settlement and served as a central location for the construction of the Livingstone Channel, as well as various civil engineering projects involving the Detroit ...
October 21, 1975. The Fisher Building is a landmark skyscraper located at 3011 West Grand Boulevard in the heart of the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan. The ornate 30-story building, completed in 1928, is one of the major works of architect Albert Kahn, and is designed in an Art Deco style, faced with limestone, granite, and several types ...
The Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge is one of over 540 National Wildlife Refuges managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service within the Department of the Interior. It occupies 7.88 square miles (20.41 km 2) of scattered property but has drawn boundaries for further expansion. [ 3]
A list of fish of Jamaica. Jamaican waters contain maccaback and saltwater fish. [1] Saltwater. The chief varieties of saltwater fish include: Kingfish; Jack;
Alligator Pond is a fishing village on the southwestern coast of Jamaica in the parish of Manchester. [ 3] Unlike the tourist-oriented coasts in the northern part of the country, Alligator Pond's shoreline is as much about work as play; here fishermen launch their boats to catch some of the island's best-regarded fish while women conduct the ...