Calamities on a Monday
Sep. 24th, 2008 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguyOkay, so while surfing LJ (in the strange, manual method I must use now that work has blocked only friends pages from my view. No, seriously, I can look at individual LJs, but ), I noticed a post by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trollprincess where she mentions having a copy of Laura MacDonald's The Curse of the Narrows.
It's a book about the Halifax Explosion, which is one of the great maritime disasters of history, where a French munitions ship collided with a Norweigan relief ship in Halifax harbour. The munitions ship exploded, causing the most powerful manmade explosion until Trinity. Two thousand Haligonians* and citizens of the surrounding area were killed.
I looked at the Amazon link she proferred for it, and noticed that it had a "Frequently Bought Together" note. Apparently, after reading about the Halifax Explosion, people are also interested in reading Dark Tide, a book by Stephen Puleo that details the great Boston Molasses Disaster.
The description is an interesting one.
Damn. That’s pretty darn nasty. Although the thought of a tidal wave of molasses sweeping through city streets veeeerrrrryyyy slooooooowly is amusing. If horrible.
*One of my favourite words, and curse my wife for being from Dartmouth instead.
trollprincess where she mentions having a copy of Laura MacDonald's The Curse of the Narrows.It's a book about the Halifax Explosion, which is one of the great maritime disasters of history, where a French munitions ship collided with a Norweigan relief ship in Halifax harbour. The munitions ship exploded, causing the most powerful manmade explosion until Trinity. Two thousand Haligonians* and citizens of the surrounding area were killed.
I looked at the Amazon link she proferred for it, and noticed that it had a "Frequently Bought Together" note. Apparently, after reading about the Halifax Explosion, people are also interested in reading Dark Tide, a book by Stephen Puleo that details the great Boston Molasses Disaster.
The description is an interesting one.
In this volume, Puleo, a contributor to American History magazine, sets out to determine whether the collapse of a molasses tank that sent a tidal wave of 2.3 million gallons of the sticky liquid through Boston's North End and killed 21 people was the work of Italian anarchists or due to negligence by the tank's owner, United States Industrial Alcohol.
Damn. That’s pretty darn nasty. Although the thought of a tidal wave of molasses sweeping through city streets veeeerrrrryyyy slooooooowly is amusing. If horrible.
*One of my favourite words, and curse my wife for being from Dartmouth instead.
