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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Courrières Mine Disaster of 1906

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.224.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

One of the worst mining tragedies in history, the explosion that sent fire through the Courrières mine tunnels claimed more than a thousand lives. It also created awareness of dangerous issues in mines that hadn't received much focus up to that point.

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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com.

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Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly from...

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I'm Tracy V. We'll say...

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Tracy, it's another depressing episode.

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I know, so I...

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We're recording two episodes today.

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The other one is not depressing,

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but as I was looking through our listeners submitted suggestions,

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trying to figure out what we were going to do for today.

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Uh-huh.

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Overwhelmingly, they are massacres and explosions and tragedies,

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and a lot of...

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