IN SWEET TURNED DEADLY: THE GREAT BOSTON MOLASSES FLOOD

On a sultry January afternoon in 1919, the unthinkable took place in Boston's North End. A massive tank overflowing with sticky molasses ruptured without warning, unleashing a wall of thick, brown goo that consumed the streets below. Scores of people met their fate in the unforeseen disaster, swept away the unexpected force of the molasses. The sig