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    The Black Tom explosion was an act of sabotage by agents of the German Empire, to destroy U.S.-made munitions that were to be supplied to the Allies in...
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  • extremely large explosions, accidental and intentional, caused by modern high explosives, boiling liquid expanding vapour explosions (BLEVEs), older explosives...
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  • in the area in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Black Tom explosion (30 July 1916), Jersey City, New Jersey; act of World War I sabotage...
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    ammunition Black Tom explosion of 1916 Port Chicago disaster in World War II Bombay Explosion (1944), explosion on a ship in Bombay Harbour Explosion of the...
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  • as the Black Tom explosion and none in Halifax during the war). The movie does not show the tsunami which followed directly after the explosion, although...
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    Kurt Jahnke (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    April 1917 munitions explosion at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, "likely" responsible for the Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New...
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  • Later, Witzke himself implied that he had taken part in the massive Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor on July 30, 1916, which killed at least four and...
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    largely successful and he probably played some role in planning the Black Tom explosion of 1916. Also in 1915 he bought ammunition and supplied money to...
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    were amateurish and foiled by local law enforcement, some like the Black Tom explosion caused immense devastation. State-sponsored terrorism is government...
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  • Chesapeake Affair, December 7, 1863 (Perpetrator: British Canada) Black Tom explosion, July 30, 1916 (Perpetrator: German Empire) Battle of Columbus, 1916...
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  • potential) Black Tom explosion, 1916 act of sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents during World War I Kingsland explosion, American...
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    followed the design set by Tilton and Boring. When the Black Tom explosion occurred on Black Tom Island in 1916, the complex suffered moderate damage;...
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    In 1916, on what is now the southeastern corner of the park, the Black Tom explosion killed as many as seven people, caused $20 million in property damage...
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    the Connaught Rangers in India, as well as, by some accounts, the Black Tom explosion in 1916. Parts of the conspiracy included efforts to subvert the...
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    I. In 1937, he voluntarily assisted US lawyers investigating the Black Tom explosion by providing an affidavit from his home in Dublin. According to British...
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  • Jugantar–German plot, the German mission to Kabul, by some accounts, the Black Tom explosion in 1916. Parts of the conspiracy also included efforts to subvert...
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    munitions explosion at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in the San Francisco Bay Area, and was possibly responsible for the July 1916 Black Tom explosion in New...
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    for damages against Germany for the destruction caused by the 1916 Black Tom explosion. He undertook much work for corporations in Nazi Germany and advised...
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    for a moment a giddy, ridiculous tower dominating Paris like a gigantic black smokestack, crushing under its barbaric bulk Notre Dame, the Tour Saint-Jacques...
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    routes. Prime examples of such sabotage are the events of Black Tom and the Kingsland Explosion. Like spies, saboteurs who conduct a military operation...
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  • Hundreds Jersey City, United States Black Tom explosion was a planned detonation of a munitions factory at Black Tom Island in the neutral United States...
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    its ranks. External events, like the Black Tom explosion and specifically the Morgan Munitions Depot explosion, reinforced the need for such a capability...
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    to have been a spectacle more magnificent than the nearby 1916 explosion at Black Tom. From office buildings and tall apartments, people in New York City...
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    Carrying the Light to Asia Libertas personification of Liberty Ellis Island Black Tom explosion Musée Bartholdi National symbols of the United States...
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    back to 1917 with the passage of the Espionage Act and due to the Black Tom explosion. Port Security Units are deployable expeditionary security and anti-terrorism...
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