Paris in the 18th century Picpus. Among those executed in the last great surge of the reign of terror were the eminent chemist Lavoisier (8 May 1794) and the poet Andre Chenier, executed 25 July 1794, just two days before the end of the Terror. On June 8, 1793, at the debut of the new wave of terror, Robespierre presided over the Festival of the Supreme Being in the huge amphitheater on the Champs de Mars which had been constructed in 1790 for the first anniversary of the Revolution; the ceremony was designed by the painter David, and featured a ten-hour parade, bonfires a statue
Terror of the Tug coal-mining region of West Virginia and Kentucky. Terror of the Tug Terror of the Tug is a play written by Jean Battlo and based on events in the life of Police Chief Sid Hatfield just after the Matewan Massacre, a notable event in the history of West Virginia and its Pocahontas Coalfield, and the history of mining labor relations in the United States. The events in the play "Terror of the Tug" took place after the historical events of the Coal Wars battle, depicted in the 1987 movie "Matewan". The "Tug" of the title is the Tug Fork of the