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Gallons of molasses4
  • By 1916, with the United States still delaying their formal entry into World War I, the tank filled twice to almost two million gallons of molasses. (oldnorth.com)
  • On a bright January day in 1919, the tank finally broke and almost three million gallons of molasses rushed the neighborhood. (klubhouseforkids.ca)
  • A tank containing millions of gallons of molasses erupted in Boston in January 1919, killing 21 people and destroying buildings in the North End. (claritywise.fr)
  • Eighth graders Alma Woods and Ella Horvath at Clearwater Fundamental Middle School in Clearwater, Fla., use their entry to guide us through the very real disaster of the Boston Molasses Flood, an incident that caused millions of gallons of molasses to flood city streets. (kvpr.org)
Great Boston Molas4
  • The main historical source for this campaign is Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo. (tabletop.garden)
  • Puleo is a historian, college teacher, public speaker, and the author of seven books including Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. (constantcontact.com)
  • The book that has been selected for 2014 is Dark Tide: the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo. (somervillepubliclibrary.org)
  • The 90th anniversary of the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 and five years after the publication of his book about the disaster, Dark Tide, Stephen Puleo talks about the enduring popularity of the book. (beaconbroadside.com)
Flood16
  • The Great Molasses Flood of 1919. (newspapers.com)
  • The events of the Molasses Flood and subsequent trial illuminated and exasperated current tensions affecting America at large. (oldnorth.com)
  • Through the lens of the Molasses Flood, one can dive deeper into the tumultuous early decades of the twentieth century to understand its lasting impact on our nation. (oldnorth.com)
  • After respecting download Dark Tide: The Great Molasses Flood You' basics, use as to restate an able request to work also to communications that greed you. (xn--12cm0cjx9czb4alcz2ue.net)
  • The Great Molasses Flood is a weird historical fiction campaign based on a real-life disaster, using the Rosette Diceless system from Future Proof Games , a system designed in part by Gregory, the host and Narrator. (tabletop.garden)
  • I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 is the latest in this exciting series. (wnpl.info)
  • In a poor North End neighborhood in Boston, young Carmen must fight for her life as a tank of molasses gives way to a flood that was far worse than anyone could imagine. (wnpl.info)
  • People stood in a circle during the 100th anniversary ceremony of the Great Molasses Flood at Langone Park in the North End section of Boston on Tuesday. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Boston recently used ground-penetrating radar to determine the location of the giant molasses tank that caused the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 . (bostonglobe.com)
  • At Tuesday's ceremony, Christopher Cook, the city's parks commissioner and chief of environment, energy, and open space, read the names of the 21 victims who died in the Great Molasses Flood. (bostonglobe.com)
  • One of the victims who died in the molasses flood was George Layhe, a Boston firefighter. (bostonglobe.com)
  • He'd heard about the Great Molasses Flood since he was young but didn't know the details about what transpired. (bostonglobe.com)
  • @bostonarchaeo asked the Fiske Center to survey the area where a tank ruptured & caused The Great Molasses Flood 100 years ago today. (bostonglobe.com)
  • A companion children's book has also been selected: The Great Molasses Flood: Boston, 1919 by Deborah Kops. (somervillepubliclibrary.org)
  • Have you heard of the Great Molasses Flood ? (ted.com)
  • A molasses flood occurred in North End, Boston on January 15th, 1919 when a huge tank holding molasses spontaneously exploded. (historycolored.com)
Killing 21 people1
  • In 1919, an industrial accident created a wave of molasses that swept through streets of Boston at 35 miles per hour, killing 21 people in its wake. (ted.com)
Dark Tide1
  • Attractively, if you are remaining things to understand on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or 2005, responsive or Other millions growing download Dark Tide: The Great Molasses lets primarily former: experiences that add Not be SQL Server's practical chapter teens and & as agree to popular nature. (xn--12cm0cjx9czb4alcz2ue.net)
Swept1
  • At 12:45 pm, on January 15, 1919, a tsunami-like wave swept down Commercial Street in Boston's North End neighborhood. (oldnorth.com)
Streets2
  • But nobody imagined that it could one day explode apart, sending a tsunami of molasses into the streets. (peppermintbooks.com)
  • Stomp on a tube of toothpaste to demonstrate what happens to non-Newtonian fluids under pressure-and how a ruptured tank sent a tsunami of molasses through the streets of Boston in 1919. (theredballoon.com)
Disaster6
  • The band's name is a reference to the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919. (wikipedia.org)
  • They're trapped in an increasingly perilous disaster zone of collapsing buildings and tar-like molasses. (tabletop.garden)
  • The theme song for this campaign is " Great Molasses Disaster " by Robin Aigner and Parlor Game , available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license . (tabletop.garden)
  • More than 60 people formed a circle where the molasses tank once stood to commemorate the centennial of the disaster that unfolded when the massive tank burst and set loose a deadly tidal wave of molasses that killed 21 people and injured dozens of others a century ago. (bostonglobe.com)
  • One derailment could bring us face to face with a tsunami of high fructose corn syrup that recalls the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 . (uillinois.edu)
  • Over at Scientific American, Ferris Jabr deftly explains why the Reynolds number of molasses made this disaster all the more lethal, and how microbes are faced with an even more sticky situation on a daily basis. (ted.com)
Neighborhood3
  • In late 1915, this neighborhood became the home of United States Industrial Alcohol's (USIA) newest molasses storage tank. (oldnorth.com)
  • On the North End of Boston, an enormous industrial molasses tank has exploded, reducing a neighborhood to rubble in a moment. (tabletop.garden)
  • One hundred years ago, a killer wave of molasses struck a crowded Boston neighborhood. (peppermintbooks.com)
Tank6
  • This is the context in which the molasses tank on Commercial Street received its first delivery on December 31, 1915. (oldnorth.com)
  • Almost immediately, neighbors and workers reported seeing the tank leaking molasses onto the street. (oldnorth.com)
  • There were warning signs that the molasses tank would break. (klubhouseforkids.ca)
  • The ugly tank, filled with sticky brown molasses, has always leaked. (peppermintbooks.com)
  • The infamous molasses tank was owned by Purity Distilling Company and measured 50 feet tall and 90 feet in diameter, according to a Fiske Center blog post . (bostonglobe.com)
  • Today, the site of the tank is known as Langone Park, and a softball diamond occupies where the infamous molasses tank once stood. (bostonglobe.com)
Recalls1
  • Boston-based public radio affiliate, WGBH, commented that, "Hot Molasses play a power pop that recalls the Canadian Baroque pop explosion of the late 90s and early 00s, from Broken Social Scene and the New Pornographers through Sloan. (wikipedia.org)
Boston Globe1
  • Critic Jonathan Perry of the Boston Globe described Hot Molasses' sound as "tartly flavored, kinetically arranged pop-rock," comparing them to the B-52s and the New Pornographers. (wikipedia.org)
Million1
Wave2
  • This giant wave of molasses took the lives of 21 individuals while injuring 150 others. (oldnorth.com)
  • Take a look even if you are a non-tech like me, although it may make you imagine outrunning a 40-foot (12-meter) high wave of molasses moving at 35 miles (56k) an hour. (claritywise.fr)
People1
  • But the people of Boston's North End -- mostly poor immigrants -- were powerless to complain to the big molasses company. (klubhouseforkids.ca)
Years1
  • Ships bringing molasses to New England from the Caribbean followed the same shipping routes for over 300 years. (oldnorth.com)
Scene1
  • The podcast oozes with highly detailed, (albeit fictionalized) interviews based off of historical research and their storytelling takes you to the scene, where you learn just how quickly molasses can move. (kvpr.org)
City2
  • This was one of the worst catastrophes which has visited the City of Boston in my remembrance … Cold molasses has death-dealing and destructive powers equal to the tornado or the cyclone when it is suddenly unloosed," said Damon Hall in August 1920. (oldnorth.com)
  • Hot Molasses seeks to raise awareness of political causes and advance economic and social justice through music, and has organized and played benefit concerts for charitable organizations including City Life/Vida Urbana, Alternatives for Community & Environment, Opportunity Africa, and Movimiento Cosecha. (wikipedia.org)
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Estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses1
  • At approximately 12:40 p.m on Jan. 15, 1919, a giant tank at the Purity Distilling Co. on Commercial Street in the North End collapsed, sending a wave of an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses through the streets of the city. (bostonglobe.com)
Gallons9
  • At 12:40 p.m. on January 15, 1919, residents in the North End area of Boston heard the sound of an explosion as a fifty foot tall tank containing over two million gallons of molasses collapsed. (strangehistory.com)
  • Purity's vast crude molasses storage tank at 529 Commercial Street was brimming with some 8.7 million litres (2.3 million US gallons) of molasses. (devastatingdisasters.com)
  • On Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1919, at about half past noon, a tank containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst, sending a wave of sticky liquid through the streets of the North End of Boston. (csengineermag.com)
  • When it burst, a two-story-tall wave containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses issued forth, traveling out in all directions like a shockwave. (atlasobscura.com)
  • Eighth graders Alma Woods and Ella Horvath at Clearwater Fundamental Middle School in Clearwater, Fla., use their entry to guide us through the very real disaster of the Boston Molasses Flood, an incident that caused millions of gallons of molasses to flood city streets. (kpbs.org)
  • In 1919 a vast vat containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst, sending a tidal wave of sticky liquid sugar surging through the streets of Boston in Massachusetts drowning twenty one unfortunate passers by in sticky goo. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • The cause of the disaster was a giant, fifty-foot tall storage tank that was being used by US Industrial Alcohol to store over 2.3 million gallons of molasses. (propmodo.com)
  • In 1919, a storage tank containing over two million gallons of molasses burst in Boston's North End neighborhood. (hunchmag.com)
  • In 1919 a bizarre catastrophe struck Boston's North End: A giant storage tank failed, releasing 2 million gallons of molasses into a crowded business district at the height of a January workday. (libsyn.com)
Flood19
  • The infamous molasses flood in Boston was a tragedy like no other. (bostonglobe.com)
  • A sign at the entrance of the park reads: "Boston Molasses Flood - On January 15, 1919, a molasses tank at 529 Commercial Street exploded under pressure, killing 21 people. (strangehistory.com)
  • It may be folklore coupled with autosuggestion, but locals living around the site of the great molasses flood (now a community baseball field) insist that it's still possible to smell the unmistakable sweet odour of molasses on hot days. (devastatingdisasters.com)
  • This week on Fieldstone Common our featured guest is Stephen Puleo, author of the book Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. (fieldstonecommon.com)
  • In Boston's industrial North End is a small, easy to miss plaque memorializing a very strange moment in Boston's history: the Great Boston Molasses Flood, in which a sugary tidal wave wreaked deadly destruction on the city. (atlasobscura.com)
  • The Great Boston Molasses Flood killed 21 people. (atlasobscura.com)
  • While the molasses flood took many lives and destroyed a neighborhood, you would never know it today-save for the flimsy little sign on Commercial Street. (atlasobscura.com)
  • They are also extracting smells from books that were caught up in major disasters including the Boston Molasses Flood. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Books that were salvaged from the flood still smell of molasses. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Fluid dynamics met history for a team of researchers who studied the Boston Molasses Flood, a disaster that claimed 21 lives, injured 150 and flattened buildings in the Commercial Street area of Boston in 1919. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The goal is to take our knowledge and understanding of highly viscous spreading flows and apply that to the Boston Molasses Flood. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Ultimately, we want to use the Molasses Flood as a vehicle for fluid dynamics education and outreach and use it to engage students and the public with physics," said Sharp. (sciencedaily.com)
  • However, at the temperatures relevant to the Boston Molasses Flood, this effect is extremely small. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The physics of the Molasses Flood are relevant to other accidents that affect the public, including industrial spills or breaking levees, but the ultimate goal of this work is educational. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Once I delved into the history of the Boston Molasses Flood, I was surprised by how rich a subject it is, especially for engineering education," said Sharp. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The facility was built at the height of WWI and authorities were more interested in increasing the production of munitions than reducing the risk of a molasses flood so the container was built with about 50 percent less steel than was required for the weight. (propmodo.com)
  • How about the 15-foot-high tidal wave of molasses that tore through the streets of Boston in the Great Molasses Flood of 1919? (concertkatie.com)
  • These events however are paltry compared to the 'Great Boston Molasses Flood' of 1919, when an enormous vat of molasses, a gloopy sweetener used in the production of rum and industrial alcohol, burst open and engulfed everything in its path. (comparecrazy.com)
  • But how many of us have walked the North End Streets of Boston where the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 took place or seen The Capone Cherry Tree gifted to Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, by the notorious gangster? (kathleenpendoley.com)
Wall of molasses2
  • In seconds, a wall of molasses rushing from the tank reached fifteen feet high and began to pour through the streets in the neighborhood around the tank. (strangehistory.com)
  • The wall of molasses was said to be around 25 foot high and traveled 35 miles per hour, killing 25 people (plus several horses) and injuring another 150 people. (propmodo.com)
Scent of molasses2
  • Locals claimed that the scent of molasses could be smelled on warm days for decades to follow. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Today, some residents claim they can still smell the faint scent of molasses on warm days, a reminder of this tragic event. (hunchmag.com)
Purity Distill1
  • In January 1919, the Purity Distilling Company, located at 529 Commercial Street, was in the molasses business-in a nefarious way. (atlasobscura.com)
Disasters1
Tidal wave1
  • Chronicle of the Boston waterfront's molasses tank collapse that flooded the city's North End with a sticky twenty-five-foot-high tidal wave, killing twenty-one people. (klas.com)
Unusually warm2
City's1
  • A storage tank collapsed, sending a wave of molasses 15 to 40 feet high through the city's North End neighborhood, destroying several blocks and drowning pedestrians. (politifact.com)
Boston7
  • One hundred years ago, a killer wave of molasses struck a crowded Boston neighborhood. (womenandchildrenfirst.com)
  • The band's name is a reference to the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919. (wikipedia.org)
  • Critic Jonathan Perry of the Boston Globe described Hot Molasses' sound as "tartly flavored, kinetically arranged pop-rock," comparing them to the B-52s and the New Pornographers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Boston-based public radio affiliate, WGBH, commented that, "Hot Molasses play a power pop that recalls the Canadian Baroque pop explosion of the late 90s and early 00s, from Broken Social Scene and the New Pornographers through Sloan. (wikipedia.org)
  • A fresh shipment of molasses had arrived from the Caribbean to top off the tank only two days prior, and it hadn't fully cooled to Boston winter temperatures. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The 22 people who died in Boston when a tank of hot molasses exploded in 1919 had no part in the decision to make the tank's walls thinner than they needed to be. (aknextphase.com)
  • In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of the Boston Molasses Disaster, which claimed 21. (libsyn.com)
Buckled the elevated1
  • A 40-foot wave of molasses buckled the elevated railroad tracks, crushed buildings and inundated the neighborhood. (strangehistory.com)
Tide1
Attempts2
  • Rescue efforts were a nightmare, as clinging molasses hampered attempts to pull out the injured and recover the dead. (devastatingdisasters.com)
  • The viscosity of the molasses would have then increased dramatically with this cooling, complicating attempts to rescue victims and to begin recovery and cleanup. (sciencedaily.com)
Massachusetts1
Podcast1
  • The podcast oozes with highly detailed, (albeit fictionalized) interviews based off of historical research and their storytelling takes you to the scene, where you learn just how quickly molasses can move. (kpbs.org)
Dead1
Industrial2
  • A key ingredient of their industrial process was molasses, the syrupy by-product of sugar processing that served as a domestic sweetener and could be fermented to produce rum or (in Purity's case) industrial ethyl alcohol. (devastatingdisasters.com)
  • Arthur P. Jell, the assistant treasurer of the American Industrial Alcohol Company wanted to cut the cost of the project and reduced the thickness of the molasses tank's walls. (aknextphase.com)
Miles per1
  • Molasses spread across the city at an estimated 35 miles per hour. (atlasobscura.com)
Area1