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Before the atomic bomb, the biggest man-made explosion in history leveled a city in 1917 — because two ships bumped into each other
On the morning of December 6, 1917, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was ...
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Why no one was ever convicted for the Halifax explosion, how maritime law failed the deadliest harbor disaster in history
The 1917 Halifax Explosion killed nearly 1,800 people and leveled a city, yet every criminal charge and civil claim eventually collapsed in court. Here's how a chain of navigation blunders, wartime ...
Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The French ship's insistence on staying away from shore may have seemed strange to anyone watching the encounter, but to those on board, it was ...
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