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Edited on Thu Dec-30-04 09:30 PM by brentspeak
Lisbon was hit by a terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami in 1755. Killed 90,000 people. Are there monuments in the city that commerate that event, or the Marquis of Pompal, the prime minister who basically prevented the whole situation from completely spiralling out of control?
Bizarre trivia from the Lisbon earthquake: The survivors of the quake fled to the relative safety of the docks, where they witnessed the sea receding (as it always does prior to a tsunami). It revealed centuries of sunken ships and treasure. But twenty minutes later, the tsunami hit.
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