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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jlblonde, post: 1456974, member: 32000&quot;]No HD, you were right the first time:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Wikipedia</b></p><p><b>Mount Pelée eruption</b></p><p><br /></p><p>On May 8, 1902, a blast from the volcano <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pelée" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pelée" rel="nofollow">Mont Pelée</a> destroyed the town of St. Pierre, killing almost all of its 29,000 inhabitants. The only survivors were a shoemaker and a prisoner who was saved by his position in a jail dungeon with only a single window. Because Saint Pierre was the commercial capital of the island, there were four banks in the city—the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Banque_de_la_Martinique&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Banque_de_la_Martinique&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Banque de la Martinique</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banque_Transatlantique" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banque_Transatlantique" rel="nofollow">Banque Transatlantique</a>, a branch of the Colonial Bank of London, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crédit_Foncier_Colonial&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crédit_Foncier_Colonial&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Crédit Foncier Colonial</a>. All were destroyed. The town had to be completely rebuilt and lost its status as the commercial capital, a title which shifted to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort-de-France" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort-de-France" rel="nofollow">Fort-de-France</a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort-de-France" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort-de-France" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort-de-France" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort-de-France" rel="nofollow">T</a>his little tid bit of info used to show up on the History Channel in the 90&#039;s as a bumper between episodes or commercial breaks. Hosted/Narrated by Sam Waterston.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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