Monday, 5 January 2009

Swimming in treacle?

On 15 January, 1919, a huge tank of molasses collapsed in Boston, Massachusetts, causing a gigantic wave of the black, sticky liquid to rush through the city - leaving trains and houses in its wake. 21 people died in the disaster, and it took months to clean up the mess.

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A42129876

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