TRIVA FUN

[crash325]

Mine tailings collapse draining settling pond causing mud flow/flood down stream? I remember seeing a program on one but I don't recall the casualties being that high.

Harry K

1 Last hint. It was a dam collapse, built by a hunting club.

 

[crash325]

1 Last hint. It was a dam collapse, built by a hunting club.

Here is what wikipedia says. About the same information that I had.

1889: Johnstown Flood
Main article: Johnstown Flood

Carnegie was one of more than 50 members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, which has been blamed for the Johnstown Flood that killed 2,209 people in 1889.[35]

At the suggestion of his friend Benjamin Ruff, Carnegie's partner Henry Clay Frick had formed the exclusive South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club high above Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The sixty-odd club members were the leading business tycoons of Western Pennsylvania and included among their number Frick's best friend, Andrew Mellon, his attorneys Philander Knox and James Hay Reed, as well as Frick's business partner, Carnegie. High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown. With the coming-of-age of railroads superseding canal barge transport, the lake was abandoned by the Commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests and eventually came to be owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in 1881. Prior to the flood, speculators had purchased the abandoned reservoir, made less than well-engineered repairs to the old dam, raised the lake level, built cottages and a clubhouse, and created the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. Less than 20 miles downstream from the dam sat the city of Johnstown.

 

[crash325]

What is the oldest continuously occupied city in the USA. :confused3:
It is not Boston Or NY. & not in Virgina.

Anybody going to guess on this one????:confused3:

 

[bcp]

Taos?

Bruce

 

[cqaigy2]

Anybody going to guess on this one????:confused3:

St Augustine Florida?

 

[turnkey4099]

What is the tallest mountain on earth?

Harry K

 

[crash325]

St Augustine Florida?

You got it correct.
Even though some dummy didn't get the question quite correct.

What is the tallest mountain on earth?

Harry K

If your talking above sea level Mount Everest.

The tallest in feet is under the sea, but I don't know its name or if it even has a name or "Hawaii"???

 

[Jim Shooz]

That would be Haleakala.

 

[turnkey4099]

That would be Haleakala.

Or Mauna Loa. They both seem to be just over 30,000. Measured from their base which is way under water of course.

Harry K

 

[cqaigy2]

You got it correct.
Even though some dummy didn't get the question quite correct.

I knew what you meant. I believed "continuously occupied" you meant by peoples of European origin.