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2 weeks agoThis Christmas Tradition Reminds Me of What America Has Lost
On December 6, 1917, in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, a Norwegian freighter called the Imo collided with a French cargo ship called the Mont Blanc. It happened that the Mont Blanc was headed for a military convoy loaded with some 2,300 tons of picric acid, 200 tons of TNT, 35 tons of benzol, and 10 tons of gun cotton, all destined for the battlefields in France. The collision shoved the Mont Blanc, now on fire, toward the shoreline.
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