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> The fire is believed to have started in Laurence Malone's bonded storehouse on the corner of Ardee Street, where 5,000 hogsheads (262,500 imperial gallons or 1,193,000 litres or 315,200 US gallons) of whiskey were being stored... Hogsheads sound like a fictional unit of measure made up to mock the imperial system.
the idea of Irishmen drinking themselves to death in a whisky flood is... something my wee dram of Irish blood is not qualified to comment on, but it only killed a dozen people. Near twice that number died in the molasses flood in Boston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood The density of molasses is about 1.4 tonnes per cubic metre, 40% more dense than water, resulting in the molasses having a great de…
> The fire is believed to have started in Laurence Malone's bonded storehouse on the corner of Ardee Street, where 5,000 hogsheads (262,500 imperial gallons or 1,193,000 litres or 315,200 US gallons) of whiskey were being stored... Hogsheads sound like a fictional unit of measure made up to mock the imperial system.
Fun fact: hogsheads are abbreviated as hhds :)
the idea of Irishmen drinking themselves to death in a whisky flood is... something my wee dram of Irish blood is not qualified to comment on, but it only killed a dozen people. Near twice that number died in the molasses flood in Boston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood The density of molasses is about 1.4 tonnes per cubic metre, 40% more dense than water, resulting in the molasses having a great de…
If there's an actual flood of heated alcohol, then you might get poisoning just from inhaling? It's hard to avoid breathing, really.
Got to love the anachronistic use of euros. No doubt any attempt to correct it would be rapidly suppressed
Got to love the anachronistic use of euros. No doubt any attempt to correct it would be rapidly suppressed
Wikipedia has consistent style rules around usage/conversion of currencies[1][2], so yes your edit would probably be swiftly reverted if it didn't follow those.
I'm not really sure why you're using such a conspiratorial tone.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Date...
[2] (From above page) "For obsolete currencies, provide an equivalent (formatted as a conversion) if possible, in the modern replacement currency (e.g. decimal pounds for historical pre-decimal pounds-and-shillings), or a US-dollar equivalent where there is no modern equivalent."
The title should mention the year. Got me scared for a moment!
Agreed, "Dublin Whiskey Fire of 1875" or some such, would be fine. From the article: None of the fatalities suffered during the fire were due to smoke inhalation, burns, or any other form of direct contact with the fire itself; all of them were attributed to alcohol poisoning. What a way to go.