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Disasters

The 365 Crete Earthquake and Tsunami: A Disaster that Devastated the Ancient Mediterranean World
Humbug Billy and the 1858 Bradford Sweets Poisoning: A Disaster That Shocked – and Transformed – Britain
The Zanclean Flood: When a Dried Out Mediterranean Suddenly Refilled in a Massive Megaflood
The Great Molasses Flood: When Boston Was Engulfed in a Sticky Tsunami
The Harrying of the North: The Brutal Norman Pacification of Northern England Likened to Genocide
The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake: The Natural Disaster that Fueled the Enlightenment
The Raid on the Medway: When the Dutch Humiliated the English Navy in its Home
The Texas City Disaster: America’s Deadliest Industrial Accident Wrecked a City and Killed Hundreds
The Destruction of Convoy PQ 17: One of WWII’s Worst Allied Naval Disasters
Before He Committed Genocide, Pol Pot Used to Be Known as ‘A Very Nice Man’
The Erfurt Latrine Disaster: When Dozens of Aristocrats Were Drowned in Excrement
The Anschluss: Hitler’s Annexation of Austria, and the Appeasement that Emboldened Him to Launch WWII
10 of History’s Worst Examples of Bad Generalship
The Bay of Pigs: Mistakes That Transformed an Invasion Into a Fiasco
‘Don’t Worry About It’: Kermit Tyler, the Officer Who Ignored Radar Warning of Japanese Planes Approaching Pearl Harbor
Mount Pelee and the Destruction of Saint-Pierre: The Twentieth Century’s Deadliest Volcanic Eruption
The Devastatingly Deadly 1918 Philadelphia Parade That Was Held in the Middle of a Pandemic
The Black Tom Explosion: When Kaiser Wilhelm’s Agents Almost Blew Up the Statue of Liberty
‘Mokusatsu’ and the Translation Error That Led to the Atomic Bombing of Japan
The Sinking of the Lusitania: A WWI Tragedy Shrouded in Controversy
The Ancient Antioch Earthquake That Almost Killed Two Emperors
Operation Downfall: The Planned Allied Invasion of Japan
China’s ‘River of Sorrows’ and the Catastrophic 1887 Yellow River Flood
Things That Weren’t Thought Through: The Upgrade That Sank the Mary Rose, King Henry VIII’s Flagship
Public Panics: The Great Poisoning Scare of Milan
What is the Historic Context of the Bible’s Noah’s Flood Narrative?
Mistakes: The Great Leap Forward that Set China Back
Hotel New World Collapse: When DIY Designs by Unqualified Architects Led to Disaster
The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD – Ancient Rome’s Most Memorable Natural Disaster
Did a Real Life Natural Disaster Inspire the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah Narrative?
The Johnstown Flood – Thousands Perished When A Dam Collapsed After Gilded Age Tycoons Modified it for their Private Resort