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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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    Boston Molasses Disaster

    Wikipedia

    Articlewikipedia.orgAt 0:42

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    Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

    Beacon PressStephen Puleo1 Sep 2003

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

    Bookpenguinrandomhouse.comAt 1:15

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    Purity Distilling Company tank — hearing transcripts

    Massachusetts Archives

    Archivemass.govAt 2:03

The wave 4

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    Molasses Flood: Scientists explain why it was so deadly

    The New York TimesJess Kessler26 Nov 2016

    Articlenytimes.comAt 4:35

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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.

    Papermeetings.aps.orgAt 5:10

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    Weather Bureau daily map, 15 January 1919

    National Weather Service

    Governmentweather.govAt 5:48

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    Boston Post front page, 16 January 1919

    Library of Congress

    Archiveloc.govArchived copy

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    The Great Molasses Flood — 100 years later

    Smithsonian Magazine11 Jan 2019

    Articlesmithsonianmag.comAt 7:22

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    Boston's Great Molasses Flood (documentary)

    Internet Archive

    Videoarchive.org

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    Massachusetts building code history, 1919–1923

    Commonwealth of Massachusetts

    Governmentmass.govAt 8:10

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    North End fatality records, January 1919 (dataset)

    City of Boston

    Datadata.boston.gov