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> 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. As an Irish person myself I've always felt the stereotype was a little overblown.. It seems I'm completely wrong. We will literally drink until we die if there is a literal river of whiskey. I don't know whether to laugh or c…
And of course Wikipedia loves lists, so there is also a "list of non-water floods": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-water_floods The most recent of which being https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_fruit_juice_flood from 2017 - thankfully no victims.
I wonder if there's a definition of a non-water fluid in this context. Would zero-calories lightly flavored seltzer count? Most people probably consider that water... But presumably hard seltzer would definitely count, as would Pepsi Max. So maybe it's a combination of factors like energy content, flavor, aroma, color, etc.
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How come? It gives modern context to the amount lost, in the currency that country now uses. Surely as long as you follow the conversion rates between currencies when they changed, then it's possible to provide an approximate current value in a relatable currency. The confusing bit for me is "equivalent to £5.45 million in 2019" as it is not clear why it would be a value in £, being in Euro using Ireland (and pedanti…
I would lean toward the £ means sterling, as Ireland used that from 1868 - 1928, the period in question (and the punt was de-facto pegged to it until the 70s).
The Pound of today is pretty much a different currency to the 19th century
> 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 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.
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"During the evacuation many people gathered by the streams of whiskey, filling any vessel at hand with the substance."
I witnessed a watered-down version of an incident like this a few months ago on the road between Campos dos Goytecazes and Rio de Janeiro - traffic slows down, then stops, and as we look ahead, trying to see what causes the jam, we find that several people walk along the roadside carrying beer cans and kegs, laughing and being in an excellent mood. Just our luck, driving right into some festivities, we think. Then, m…
Got to love the anachronistic use of euros. No doubt any attempt to correct it would be rapidly suppressed
You'd prefer it in (checks internets) Pounds, Shillings and Pence? OK, but not very useful to the rest of us.
That would make sure nobody alive would understand it.
The intro reads like a joke... whoever wrote it has an excellent sense of comedic timing.
Got to love the anachronistic use of euros. No doubt any attempt to correct it would be rapidly suppressed
I for one can't be bothered to read the sources and will just take in the factoid as-is and move on.