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0topics0postsDashCon and the Ball Pit That Became the Story
Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel · United States · 11–13 July 2014
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Internet culture & public spectacle
0topics0postsFyre Festival: The Luxury Pitch and the Empty Site
Festival site near Rokers Point, Great Exuma · The Bahamas · 27–28 April 2017
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Internet culture & public spectacle
0topics0postsStorm Area 51: When the Joke Reached Rachel
Rachel and the approaches to the Nevada Test and Training Range · United States · 19–22 September 2019
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Natural disasters
0topics0postsThe 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fires
San Francisco and the San Andreas Fault rupture zone · United States · 18–21 April 1906
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Natural disasters
0topics0postsThe 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami
Prince William Sound rupture zone and south-central Alaska · United States · 27 March 1964
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Natural disasters
0topics0postsThe 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami
Pacific coast of Tōhoku, northeastern Honshu · Japan · 11 March 2011
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Epidemics & public health
0topics0postsThe Broad Street Cholera Investigation
The former Broad Street pump, now Broadwick Street, Soho · United Kingdom · August–September 1854
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Engineering failures
0topics0postsThe Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident
Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 4 · Ukraine · 26 April 1986
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Internet culture & public spectacle
0topics0postsThe Four Seasons Total Landscaping Press Conference
Four Seasons Total Landscaping, 7347 State Road · United States · 7 November 2020
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Engineering failures
0topics0postsThe Great Boston Molasses Flood
Former Purity Distilling tank site on Commercial Street · United States · 15 January 1919
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Fires
0topics0postsThe Great Fire of London
Pudding Lane and the medieval City of London · United Kingdom · 2–6 September 1666
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Social movements
0topics0postsThe Opening of the Berlin Wall
Bornholmer Straße border crossing and crossings across Berlin · Germany · 9 November 1989
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Social movements
0topics0postsThe Stonewall Uprising
Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and surrounding Greenwich Village streets · United States · 28 June–3 July 1969
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Fires
0topics0postsThe Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The Asch Building, now NYU’s Brown Building · United States · 25 March 1911
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Unresolved phenomena
0topics0postsThe Tunguska Event
Forest near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River · Russia · 30 June 1908
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