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Re: Post an Interesting Wikipedia Article
by Butterfield Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:59 am
I was reading about this yesterday. How come we never hear about the 1944 "Freckleton air disaster"? I was completely unaware of it unlike perhaps most other major disasters within living memory in the UK which still crop up in the national news from time to time.
A Lancashire-based US Air Force plane lost control during a huge thunderstorm and crash landed on the village of Freckleton in between Blackpool and Preston, exploded and destroyed part of a primary school and a village cafe full of people, killing 61 people including schoolchildren.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freckleton_air_disaster
A Lancashire-based US Air Force plane lost control during a huge thunderstorm and crash landed on the village of Freckleton in between Blackpool and Preston, exploded and destroyed part of a primary school and a village cafe full of people, killing 61 people including schoolchildren.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freckleton_air_disaster
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Re: Post an Interesting Wikipedia Article
by Butterfield Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:18 am
I believe this is where the cafe was...
...where the car park is now...
...and the school was directly opposite, where the memorial gardens are now.
...where the car park is now...
...and the school was directly opposite, where the memorial gardens are now.
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by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:52 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Hassel
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by The Call of the Wendigo Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:55 pm
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by Nightjar Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:24 pm
Explains a lot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Gibson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Gibson
Bibliography
- Is the Pope Catholic? (1978)
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by Nightjar Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:31 pm
Died at the age of only 101.
Why do the good always die so very young?
Why do the good always die so very young?
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by Butterfield Thu Sep 05, 2024 2:56 pm
An interesting article about the elderly man who lived in an isolated house a mile from the foot of the active volcano Mount St. Helens in Washington state, who refused to leave his house in the weeks before the massive eruption in 1980 which ultimately led to his - and his 16 cats - burial deep beneath the "pyroclastic flow" from the volcano. He had become a national celebrity in America in the lead up to the eruption due to many media appearances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Truman
Bonus interview footage from just two weeks before the eruption:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Truman
Bonus interview footage from just two weeks before the eruption:
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by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Mon Nov 11, 2024 5:06 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabcore
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