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To: caww

Wasn’t an ammonium nitrate explosion (military high explosive being shipped to Europe) but the Halifax ship explosion in 1917 killed 2,000 people (including some from a tsunami in the harbor) and was the largest explosion ever prior to the Trinity nuclear test. My sister does our genealogy but I think I had a distant relative killed in the blast:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion


254 posted on 04/17/2013 10:16:29 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

Terrible events then....


257 posted on 04/17/2013 10:17:53 PM PDT by caww
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