Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast · Brad Choma
The Great Wanggongchang Armory Disaster of 1626 | Episode 95
·53 min·5 clips
A 1626 Beijing explosion ripped clothes off people kilometers away and rained body parts from the sky.
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A dark, fast-moving account of an ancient explosion that left the city shattered and the aftermath hard to imagine.
The Wanggongchang Armory Disaster episode turns an ancient Chinese explosion into a bleak, sharply drawn account of scale and aftermath. It lingers on the blinding flash, the shockwave, the damage to the city, and the strange debris left behind, including clothes in trees,…
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You want an ancient-China explosion explained with savage, brisk dark humor.
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