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The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
On a January afternoon in Boston, a massive steel tank holding over two million gallons of molasses ruptured without warning. A wave of thick, sticky syrup up to 25 feet high surged through the streets at an estimated 35 miles…
The Vasa: A Warship That Sank in 20 Minutes
In 1628, the Swedish warship Vasa set sail on her maiden voyage, built to be the pride of the Swedish navy — and sank before she’d even left Stockholm’s harbor. Top-heavy with too many heavy cannons and too little ballast…