Tim Attwood wrote:
>> I wonder if 50 years from now there will be people "9/11 deniers" who 
>> seriously claim there was never a World Trade Center at all, and the 
>> whole collapse was just made up. (As in now we have holocaust deniers, 
>> in other words.)
> 
> During WWI the Germans blew up the Black Tom ammo dump in NY harbor, the 
> explosion damaged the statue of liberty and shrapnel set fires in Jersey 
> City. The blast was so large it registered more than
> 5.0 on the Richter scale, broke thousands of windows in Manhattan,
> and was felt in Philadelphia.

I have read of the Halifax explosion, but did not know of Black Tom 
Island. It was interesting to read on the internet about it.

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