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No Quickenings on Holy Ground
This month's FT has a roundup of lightning related deaths, including one where Highlander fans can fill in some details ;-)
Church vaults were often used to store large quantities of gunpowder - a terrible place to hoard explosives, as lightning frequently strikes high church steeples. In 1769, lightning hit a church tower in Brescia, near Milan, and blew up the 100 tons of gunpowder stored there. The explosion leveled one sixth of the city and killed about 3,000 people, possible the worst recorded lightning disaster in history. Times, 26 June 2007
... and of course two guys with swords were not involved at all...
Church vaults were often used to store large quantities of gunpowder - a terrible place to hoard explosives, as lightning frequently strikes high church steeples. In 1769, lightning hit a church tower in Brescia, near Milan, and blew up the 100 tons of gunpowder stored there. The explosion leveled one sixth of the city and killed about 3,000 people, possible the worst recorded lightning disaster in history. Times, 26 June 2007
... and of course two guys with swords were not involved at all...