Kenyan Building Collapse Kills 6, 14 Still Missing

Six people died and 14 were still missing after a three-story building collapsed on the outskirts of the country’s capital, a police official said Tuesday, as experts warned that irresponsible contractors were to blame.

Policeman Samuel Mukindia said two people died while receiving treatment at a Nairobi hospital. The bodies of three men were pulled from the rubble at the building site in Kiambu. Another victim, a woman, was crushed to death. Police said 13 people were injured.

The Kenya Red Cross said 14 people were still unaccounted for after being reported missing by their relatives and friends.

Millicent Wairumu said she believed her younger brother David Wachira was trapped in the rubble. She cooked him breakfast Monday morning and asked him to workFor genealogical research in Delaware, the following timeline of events should help any genealogist understand the area with an historical and genealogical point of view:

1497-1498. Italian explorer Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) is commonly held to be the first European to visit North America, landing in 1497 on the island now called Newfoundland. In 1498, the ships log and published reports from Cabot’s second trip to North America seem to confirm that he had visited the coast of present New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Cabot was the first of many European explorers seeking the Northwest Passage to the Pacific. He was commissioned by the English King, Henry VII.

1524 French Exploration. Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian sailing for King Francis I of France, sailed past