This weekend marks Father’s Day across the world, prompting Martin Fone to take a look at the origins of this day of celebration. The tale he discovered is not what he expected….
The small town of Monongah in West Virginia has the unenviable distinction of being the site of America’s worst mining disaster. At 10.28 am on Friday, December 6, 1907, an explosion ripped through the Fairmont Coal Company’s No 6 and No 8 mines when a spark or a flame from a miner’s…
