The 90,300-sq-ft facility located in Holyoke, Mass., is operated by a consortium of Massachusettsâs most research-intensive universities. See Figures 1 and 2. The integration of power and life safety systems requires an understanding of both the sources of power and the specific requirements of the life safety loads. It also requires a team approach of various types of consulting engineers including electrical, life safety, mechanical, and fire protection.
Rosenbergs executed. On this day in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths,...
The USA is the only country in the Americas to have carried out executions in 2013, with 41% taking place in Texas alone. In Central and Southern America and the Caribbean, a total of 15 death sentences were recorded in four countries- Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana Barbados and the Bahamas.