Thursday, April 19, 2012

Past Disasters

The roughly 3,000 people killed on 9/11 stand as a record.  But when you rank disasters in terms of the percent of total population killed it recedes.  For one, there's the 1,600 killed in a steamboat explosion (the Sultana carrying former prisoners of the Confederacy north).  Given US population then it would be more than 4 times worse than 9/11.

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