Dec 6th's infamy in Canada

[leadbelly]

Today is the 100th anniversary of the Halifax explosion, the largest man-made explosion prior to Hiroshima. Here is a cool interactive presentation:

A city destroyed: 100 years after the Halifax Explosion

Let's also not forget the 28th anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique Massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history:

Ecole Polytechnique massacre - Wikipedia

 

[kevinkr]

Halifax still sends us a Christmas tree here in Boston every year to commemorate the assistance Boston provided in the aftermath of the explosion.

 

[kevinkr]

Received a note that the link "A city destroyed" didn't work, but it does for me. Same link is all over FB.

It is 3D however and you need to have a recent browser for it to work correctly.

 

[planet10]

Doesn’t work in iCab or Safari, works in FireFox.

dave

 

[kevinkr]

Works very well in Microsoft Edge 41.16299.15.0 (quickest load time, very good rendering)

Also Firefox Quantum 57.0, and Opera 49.0 in that order.

Rendering in Firefox was roughly, but perhaps not fully equivalent to Edge, Opera was a bit coarser overall and took slightly longer to load.

All IMO worked acceptably well. Windows 10 Pro 64 bit, all browsers are 64 bit.

 

[paul burchell]

To add to the disaster there was a blizzard the next day.

 

[Tubelab_com]

Attempts to open the Halifax link in IE11 or Firefox redirects my computer to one of several nastyware sites, reimage plus, "your flash player is out of date" reload our new virus infected version, or the bright red screen with the voice telling me that my PC has been locked by Microsoft and I need to call the 1-800-rip me off number. The reset button is the only way out. Of course the virus and malware scanners find nothing compromised on the PC.

 

[Pano]

Worked well for me in FireFox on the MAC. Thanks for the link.

 

[martin clark]

Great vid yesterday by Dr Meghan Gray, over on the ever-excellent 'Sixty Symbols' feed from my alma mater:

YouTube

 

[jackinnj]

The explosion fatalities were on the same order of magnitude as Pearl Harbor, also commemorated today.

 

[nezbleu]

As I walked to work the other day through a neighborhood that has a lot of rundown older houses (slowly gentrifying) I was wondering how many of them predated 1917. Most of them may have been built and/or repaired after the explosion. A few blocks away there are some buildings from the 1790s, pretty close to the harbour but a fair distance south of the epicenter of the blast. There are also a number of stone buildings from Victorian times on Brunswick St. No doubt they lost their windows in 1917.

This year at 9:04 AM on the 6th all the ships in the harbour blew their horns, and church bells tolled.