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The day a wave of molasses swept through Boston

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In January 1919 a storage tank in Boston's North End burst and released 8.7 million litres of molasses.

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The tank3

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    Boston Molasses DisasterWikipedia

    wikipedia.orgArticleAt 0:42 in the video

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    Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919Beacon PressStephen Puleo1 Sep 2003

    The standard history; chapters 3–5 on how the tank was built and never tested.

    penguinrandomhouse.comBookAt 1:15 in the video

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    Purity Distilling Company tank — hearing transcriptsMassachusetts Archives

    mass.govArchiveAt 2:03 in the video

The wave4

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    Molasses Flood: Scientists explain why it was so deadlyThe New York TimesJess Kessler26 Nov 2016

    nytimes.comArticleAt 4:35 in the video

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    Revisiting the 1919 Boston molasses flood (APS Division of Fluid Dynamics)American Physical Society21 Nov 2016

    Cold air made the molasses thicker as it spread, trapping people.

    meetings.aps.orgPaperAt 5:10 in the video

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    Weather Bureau daily map, 15 January 1919National Weather Service

    weather.govGovernmentAt 5:48 in the video

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    Boston Post front page, 16 January 1919Library of Congress

    loc.govArchiveArchived copy

After4

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    The Great Molasses Flood — 100 years laterSmithsonian Magazine11 Jan 2019

    smithsonianmag.comArticleAt 7:22 in the video

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    Boston's Great Molasses Flood (documentary)Internet Archive

    archive.orgVideo

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    Massachusetts building code history, 1919–1923Commonwealth of Massachusetts

    mass.govGovernmentAt 8:10 in the video

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    North End fatality records, January 1919 (dataset)City of Boston

    data.boston.govData