Here is this week's DU Friday history challenge!

[CTyankee]

What famous disaster is captured in this photograph?



Extra credit: identify the name of the photographer and the building in which it was taken.

Good luck!

[sandnsea]

1. This day in history?

Or just random history?

[CTyankee]

5. No, not this day. nt

[Divine Discontent]

2. is that mud in the pic?

I'm still trying to figure it out.

tough one.

[Robb]

3. I got it, but I had to cheat.

:D

[Divine Discontent]

7. how did you cheat, you dirty little freeper!

j/k

[CTyankee]

8. Shsss...for a while, OK...

[Robb]

14. You bet.

I love this kind of thing. :thumbsup:

[immoderate]

4. Did her sheep run away?

--imm

[Uncle Joe]

6. Saint Mary gets dirty.

The photographer was Larry Flynt, this was one of his early works.

[CTyankee]

9. Interesting story line you got there, but nope.

[WinkyDink]

10. I can't think of anything other than the bombing of Coventry Cathedral. But it looks like a flood.

[CTyankee]

13. That's a good guess (hadn't thought of that)...but...

[Ron Green]

11. Florence, 1966.

Right?

[CTyankee]

12. Did you remember this photo from somewhere? nt

[Ron Green]

15. Probably, along with others of the flood.

There was a big feature about it in a Time-Life book from some years ago.

[CTyankee]

22. Helluva photo. The photog. caught a helicopter in to get it and others...

[canetoad]

23. Correct

Church of Santa Croce, photo by David Lees.

[CTyankee]

24. How did you get that?

[CTyankee]

26. Hey, can you add which great art piece in Santa Croce was so terribly

affected?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. The Great Damn Kids Got Play-Doh All Over The Carpet Massacre.

Just look at the expression on that poor woman's face.

[CTyankee]

18. what a smart pick!

[Blue-Jay]

17. Reminds me of:

Quite possibly the best Dr Who episode EVER.

[CTyankee]

19. that's closer than you think!

[Blue-Jay]

20. Don't blink.

Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And DON'T BLINK.

[CTyankee]

21. I've seen some strange stuff from Renaissance sculpture...nt

[DiverDave]

25. YES!

and Sally Sparrow can make me tea anytime...snarf ;p

[Kaleva]

27. The Mother Mary of sewer backups.

[CTyankee]

28. That flood was THAT and more...the river Arno can be quite violent.

This particular church got the worst of it.

The sewage in the streets and houses was a real problem, as you can imagine. I don't know how the Florentines escaped dire health and disease problems...30 people died, tho, mostly in the rushing water, by drowning. Many thousands of old books had to be rescued and dried out page by page. Quite a story in 1966...