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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford cover image

The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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What Happened to Miss Rice?

Cigar bombs are described in several different ways, one of them is a cigar bomb. Another i've seen as a pencil bomb. So apparently they would just pass undetected because they would be so small. And say, be boarded on to a ship, and there, their slow burning fuse could sort of eat away at the pencil bomb and and cause an explosion,. often when the ship was way out.

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