To: grundle
54 posted on
04/14/2012 3:19:40 AM PDT by
PeteB570
( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
To: PeteB570
Me!!!
Although I only learned about it in the last year, when I read a book about forgotten moments in history. I told my husband about it, and he’d never heard of it either. Then again, I’m the history geek in our house. I got excited yesterday when I downloaded ‘A Night to Remember’ on my Kindle for $1.99.
76 posted on
04/14/2012 6:20:53 AM PDT by
Hoosier Catholic Momma
(How long till my Arkansas drawl fades into the twang of southeast Ohio?)
To: PeteB570
Hmm...
Sultana? Mississippi riverboat, end of Civil War, overloaded with freed Union POWs, sloppy boiler repairs at Vicksburg, boilers exploded somewhere upstream of Vicksburg, news swamped by news of Lincoln's assassination.
Largest maritime loss of life in the US?
For more detail than that, I'd have to look it up...
101 posted on
04/14/2012 10:20:07 AM PDT by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: PeteB570
Around 1,600 US deaths. How many US folks know about that one? I did, but shipwrecks in history are an old hobby of mine.
141 posted on
04/16/2012 1:45:27 PM PDT by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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