On the Coconut Grove fire, there are STILL some older building with only doors that open inward; whenever I find one my skin crawls.
Do you know of any contemperaneous books about Jack the Ripper, or is that too far out side your purview?
BTW, I am wildly impressed with the songs; but I’m musically illiterate, what’s the music?
I am also wildly impressed with cornflake’s great-aunt.
Not to many people have heard of the Bath School Disaster. Nobody has mentioned it yet.
Neither one of the books I’ve read (The Bath School Disaster & Mayday) seem to be available at Amazon. The link is pretty extensive though. I haven’t read all the way through it yet, but I do know that the first book is used on the site.
With a death toll of 45 people, considering what has happened recently (Oklahoma City & WTC), it doesn’t seem large. However, it was considered the largest act of terrorism on U.S. soil until Oklahoma City. And take into consideration that all but a few of the victims were children.
The whole thing is a pretty messed up story. You have to read it to believe it.
I actually have heard of that, Lady Ice, but don’t know much about it–thanks for the link.
Not a problem Eve. I don’t come from Bath, but pretty close. My grandmother can remember going over and seeing it afterwards. It’s a big part of the history around here.
I added it to my Bookmarks, to read later. I only know about it because I have one of those 20th Century Headlines books and saw that and thought, “Jesus, this is horrible–howcum I’ve never heard about this?!”
I just took out of the library the new Triangle Shirtwaist Fire book, and And the Dead Shall Rise, about the Mary Phagan/Leo Frank case.
…Their Horns was black and shiny, and their hot breath he could feel…
Ghost herd up in the sky!
hahahahah
Oh, thank you, Forbin–I’d completely forgotten that!
This is one of my favorite “Oh sh*t” stories. Fortunately no one was injured by this. The Japanese built a gigantic neutrino detector deep underground. The detector is a very large pool of water surrounded by just over 11,000 photomultiplier tubes. A photomultiplier tube resembles a very large lightbulb, a large glass envelope in which a vacuum is drawn. Also they are very expensive.
One PMT broke and started a chain reaction. Within a few seconds over half of the PMT’s were destroyed.
The story is here.
Bravo, Eve, bravo!
I liked this (and the previous one) so much that, driving to work, I came up with this. I hope you don’t mind my poor imitation:
Beer, beer, 'orrible beer! Filled us with foam and with fear!
Drink till you’re high and the gutters are dry.
There’s not half enough skittles for the beer.
Beer, beer, 'orrible beer! Lord save us from woes such as this!
Well drink it all down, and then we’ll turn 'round,
And we’ll re-flood the town with our
(Can’t seem to come up with a closing rhyme.)
That would be “The Day the Dam Broke” from “My Life and Hard Times.” Except that …
… it was just a rumor that spurred a panic among the citizenry.
If you’re ever in Columbus, Ohio, you can visit the Thurber house where much of these (obviously fictionalized) events took place.
And of course Alto already posted about the Thurber story. Sorry, but when the board is slow I don’t always try to load the entire thread. That’ll learn me.