Interesting, lengthy read regarding Great Lakes Ore Carriers like the Edmund Fitzgerald...
[In the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald]('https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/arts/edmund-fitzgerald-gordon-lightfoot.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s08.-Imu.Pz90r1bbgysO&smid=url-share')
Of all WWI explosions, Halifax, NS was the unfortunate winner...
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The [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]pyrocumulus cloud[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrocumulus_cloud') produced by the explosion[/CENTER]
On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]SS Mont-Blanc[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Mont-Blanc') collided with the Norwegian vessel [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]SS Imo[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Imo') in the harbour of [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]Halifax, Nova Scotia[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax,_Nova_Scotia'), Canada. Mont-Blanc, laden with [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]high explosives[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_material'), caught fire and [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]detonated[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonate'), devastating the [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]Richmond district[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_Nova_Scotia') of Halifax. At least 1,782 people, largely in Halifax and [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]Dartmouth[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth,_Nova_Scotia'), were killed by the blast, debris, fires, or collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured. The blast was the [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]largest human-made explosion[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions#Largest_accidental_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions_by_magnitude') at the time.[[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)][1][/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKnauer201256-1') It released the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]kilotons of TNT[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent') (12 [[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)]TJ[/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terajoule')).[[COLOR=rgb(51, 102, 204)][2][/COLOR]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion#cite_note-FOOTNOTERuffmanHowell1994276-2')
doesnt seem to sabotage...
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doesnt seem to sabotage...
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Absolutely not sabotage, just one of the largest conventional explosion ever, bigger & deadlier than Black Tom island, which was sabotage.
Has anyone suggested sabotage in TN?
Absolutely not sabotage, just one of the largest conventional explosion ever, bigger & deadlier than Black Tom island, which was sabotage.
Has anyone suggested sabotage in TN?
me.
Oops...
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Oops...
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Another illegal immigrant built pos.
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[HEADING=2]Sticker shock: Car prices top $50K for first time in US, Kelley Blue Book says[/HEADING]
:oops:
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Just what LI needs...
[HEADING=2][SIZE=7]New York Confirms State’s First Locally Acquired Case of Chikungunya[/SIZE][/HEADING]
Testing proved that a Long Island woman had been exposed to the mosquito-borne virus, which is more commonly seen in the Caribbean and Central and South America.
New York health authorities confirmed Tuesday that a person who fell sick on Long Island had been infected with the debilitating mosquito-borne virus chikungunya and appeared to have caught the virus locally — the first time such a case had been identified in the state.
The announcement came after the state’s public health laboratory in Albany, the Wadsworth Center, conducted confirmatory testing, a process that took more than two weeks.
“We urge everyone to take simple precautions to protect themselves and their families from mosquito bites,” Dr. James McDonald, the state health commissioner, said in a statement.
In late September, [The New York Times reported that a 60-year-old woman]('https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/nyregion/chikungunya-mosquito-illness-long-island.html') in Hempstead, a hamlet about 20 miles east of Manhattan, had tested positive for the virus in a preliminary screening test. The woman said in an interview with The Times in September that she had not recently traveled outside Long Island. Tuesday night’s announcement from state health officials appears to be referring to her.
Chikungunya is known for causing severe joint pain, which can clear up quickly or linger for months or even years, leaving some people unable to work or resume their old lives. Symptoms also include fevers, rash and muscle pain.
Chikungunya cases have surged worldwide this year, with [China facing its largest outbreak]('https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/world/asia/china-chikungunya-virus-mosquitoes-covid.html') since the first cases in that country were detected in 2008.
The disease was first identified in Tanzania in the early 1950s, but established itself in the Western Hemisphere only in 2013. Since then, it has torn through the Caribbean and Central and South America, becoming endemic across much of the region.
But the United States has largely been spared. Though a few thousand U.S. residents have been infected with chikungunya through travel, there have been only 13 instances of people catching the virus in the United States in the past decade and a half, all in Florida and Texas.
Until the Long Island patient tested positive, few suspected that the virus was circulating in New York.
“An investigation suggests that the individual likely contracted the virus following a bite from an infected mosquito,” the state health department said. “While the case is classified as locally acquired based on current information, the precise source of exposure is not known.”
Experts speculated that the mosquito that infected the woman might have hitched a ride on a plane or ended up in the luggage of a returning passenger. The statement from the Health Department noted another possibility. A mosquito might have bitten a New Yorker who had been infected abroad, leading the mosquito to become infected and potentially transmit the virus onward when it bites another person, according to the news release.
The health authorities are aware of at least [a half-dozen]('https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/mosquitoes/reports/2025/docs/mbi_report_2025_mmwr40.pdf') [people in New York]('https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/han/advisory/2025/han-advisory-16-travel-associated-infectious-diseases.pdf') who tested positive for chikungunya this year after traveling abroad to countries where the virus is circulating.
Two types of mosquitoes are known to effectively transmit chikungunya. One of them, the Aedes aegypti, or yellow fever mosquito, is not naturally found in New York. But the other type, Aedes albopictus, commonly called the Asian tiger mosquito, has extended its range to parts of New York after landing in the United States [about 40 years ago]('https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/24/us/mosquito-is-linked-to-deadly-virus-worrying-health-officials.html').
Dr. McDonald characterized the current risk of infection as “very low,” but urged people to avoid mosquito bites and to wear long sleeves and long pants when outdoors.
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REALLY? People in the profession of manufacturing cars for consumers were actually surprised how this went?
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How much do they pay these blowholes?
[HEADING=2]Major retail chain closes dozens of stores nationwide, citing ‘unprecedented’ tariffs[/HEADING]
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[HEADING=2]Major retail chain closes dozens of stores nationwide, citing ‘unprecedented’ tariffs[/HEADING]
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Over the years, Orvis expanded its product line to include sportswear, fine gifts, home furnishings, luggage and travel accessories.
However, the company announced plans to shift its product focus back to its origins, according to a statement obtained by Fox Business.
“We’re stepping into an exciting new chapter — one focused on our core passions of fly fishing and wingshooting,” Perkins said.
Over the years, Orvis expanded its product line to include sportswear, fine gifts, home furnishings, luggage and travel accessories.
However, the company announced plans to shift its product focus back to its origins, according to a statement obtained by Fox Business.
“We’re stepping into an exciting new chapter — one focused on our core passions of fly fishing and wingshooting,” Perkins said.
Patagonia, North Face, LL Bean, etc., all pounced on Citiot Fashions to stray from their initial lines of business. So glad it's starting to blow up in their faces!!
35 years ago I'd always drop into the Freeport Patagonia Outlet store to check foul weather gear and I got some great deals on superb gear. Move the clock up 10 years and I noticed the expected large rack of foul weather gear morphed into a small display in the back of the store with some other outdoor wear. HOWEVER, if your wife needed some panties, there was a huge display of them!! Needless to say I don't even walk in any more...
Maybe it was coffee. For all the driver knew it was somebody's insulin.
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