I think that the largest explosion in recorded history was that of the volcano Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815.
Did anybody other than that particular group of monks record that explosion? It seems strange that no one else would have noticed it.
in case you are still looking, the T. C. on Magnum stood for Theodore Calvin
Opus said:
OK, you got me there. I was thinking of explosions on this here planet earth. Otherwise we could probably count the comet that crashed into Jupiter back in 1994 as the biggest. I always thought the answer was when the volcano Krakatoa (which was near Java) erupted in 1883.
And since I seem to have killed this thread, here are the answers to my other ones:
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Portugal has the oldest border in the world.
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The Sutter Buttes in the Sacramento Valley in California are considered the shortest (length, not heighth) mountain range in the world.
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Mount Diablo in the San Francisco Bay Area has the biggest 360-degree view in the USA.
Please let me know if there are any other threads that need a quick death, and I’ll be happy to post to them.
I’d like to cut your head off so I can weigh it. What do you say?
What this mean does:
I would assume that anyone, anywhere sitting on a flagpole, or other such structure would also have a complete 360-degree view of their environment.
'Splain, please.
I would assume that means the most area that can be seen in all directions.
And since no one took a stab at my other question, Tirana, the capital of Albania, was named after Tehran, Iran.
Five presidents are not buried in the US. Which five, and where are they?
-Dave
“Violence is the last refuge of the ignorant.”
-I. Asimov
It stood for “William,” according to Maynard. 
“If you drive an automobile, please drive carefully–because I walk in my sleep.”–Victor Borge
I agree…
I’m still digging around for some more details on the event of 1178, it was hard enough coming up with just one cite to back me up. Oh well, at least I have a hobby now.
Maybe it’s because the general public wasn’t heavily into taking [written] notes or keeping diaries back in the 12th century. Still, you’re right in that it should have been recorded somewhere else, and not necessarily in writing- comet Halley wizzed past the Earth in 1066 and every 76 years thereafter; half a dozen or more painters inserted the apparition into paintings they were working on at the time.
WAG: having a lower gravitational field and essentially no atmosphere, most of the liberated lunar rock & dust was lost to space. In that case, [the observable duration of] the event would have been over fairly quickly. More, being composed cheifly of inert (or at least non-combustible) material, I suspect the brightness of the explosion would have died down fairly quickly.
Any resident astronomy buffs are hereby welcome to poo-poo these theories.
It has to do with how far you can see in that 360-degree view. From the top of Mt. Diablo you can see the Sierra Nevadas to the East (100+ miles?), the Pacific Ocean to the West(60 miles?), and a great deal of the Sacramento Valley and other mountainous features to the North and South (don’t have any idea how many miles). I probably didn’t word the question very well. Sorry.
Okay- I’ll be able to get some sleep tonight after all. From the September 1999 edition of Astronomy:
My research effort was being hampered by my misspelling of the chronicler’s name. How powerful this explosion was has now been answered, but it still leaves the question of why nobody else made note of it. Religious silence maybe? The celestial bodies were thought at that time to be “heavenly” objects (I just saw the evil one- better shaddup about it lest I be burned).
trick question daddy:
Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, William Jefferson Clinton
a quick and easy one …name the 2 state capitals that rhyme
a quick and easy one…
name the 2 state capitals that rhyme
Nice work Dekayx! Two for two.
I believe that Tambora in 1815 was larger than Krakatoa in 1883.
Re. Maynard’s ‘G’…
Nope, according to Maynard: “Maynard G. Krebs, the ‘G’ stands for Walter.” Repeated only 'bout a million times on the show.
Boston and Austin.
I think the only character to be mentioned in all 5 series was Q, but I could be wrong.
Who’s song was ‘Shout’? and who had a UK hit with it?
well, at least one person wants to meet me…
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Cheers!!
Tears for Fears, unless you mean that awfull “you know you make me wanna…” song :o
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Here’s one most people, Catholics included, seem to get wrong:
“The Immaculate Conception” refers to the conception of whom?