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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
Nobody wins a prize without pushing the envelope and taking some risks. Sometimes you win a brief accolade and other times you sink a cruise liner and kill 1500 people. It all balances out.
(Yes, I'm being sarcastic.)
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And sometimes worse disasters are overlooked.
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On April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana, carrying an estimated 2,000 Union veterans home in the dying days of the Civil War, exploded near Memphis, killing most of the men on board.
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The estimates are around 1700 and many burned to death.