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Originally Posted by bfisher
[...] There was an element of luck in where Mont Blanc blew up; the explosion occurred in the upper Narrows. This concentrated the worst effects in the Richmond area; Richmond Bluff and Citadel Hill shielded much of the city from the direct blast.
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Thanks. I did not find the maps and photos in the book all that useful for this sort of understanding, not even when viewed on a larger screen.
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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
... and a non-scholarly book should designed for an end-to-end read. This did not feel like that--every third chapter had to reiterate what had come before, as if the reader were jumping to this section specifically for the the contents outlined in the chapter header. That's my gripe. Mayhaps no one else is bothered by that, but it's one of my buttons.
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Yes, I did notice this in a few places.
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Sad but true. Still, they were talking figuratively about being overwhelmed by the US in a free trade arrangement. How do you think ours is going? [...]
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Somewhere between irrelevant and negative. The Canadians were not wrong, the US can be overwhelming.