Where is this? #3

Historically significant location… Where and why?

http://hackingthemainframe.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10021/whereisthis3.jpg

Halifax harbour, site of the Halifax explosion.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Halifax_explosion.png/320px-Halifax_explosion.png

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_explosion

[quote]The Halifax Explosion occurred on December 6, 1917, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, when a French munitions ship, the Mont-Blanc, collided with a Norwegian ship, the Imo, headed for wartime Belgium. The Mont-Blanc caught fire and then exploded, killing 2,000 people and injuring thousands more. The explosion caused a tsunami, and a pressure wave of air so powerful that it snapped trees, bent iron rails, and demolished buildings, carrying the fragments of them for hundreds of metres.

This was the largest man-made explosion until the first atomic bomb test explosion in 1945 and still ranks highly among the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions.[/quote]

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Heh, I recognized it right away. Spent a bit of time there.