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The Morning Halifax Vanished: The 1917 Explosion That Rehearsed the Atomic Age

Raymond on August 3, 2026

An early twentieth-century harbour at dawn, ships anchored in still grey-green water

On a cold December morning in 1917, a burning munitions ship drew crowds to their windows. Then the north end of Halifax simply ceased to exist — nearly 2,000 dead in the largest man-made explosion the world had yet known.

The Ship That the World Forgot: The MV Doña Paz and the Deadliest Peacetime Shipwreck in History

Raymond on February 10, 2026

A crowded passenger ferry glowing with light on a calm sea at dusk, painted in a minimalist sumi-e style

It killed more people than the Titanic and the Lusitania combined, and you have probably never heard its name. The story of the MV Dona Paz is the deadliest peacetime disaster in maritime history, and a portrait of everything that can go wrong at once.

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