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The Hindenburg
The Presented Elements
The images and videos have a lot to tell. The bright orange explosion starts at the top aft end of the Hindenburg, which was sagging noticeably in the rear, and
travels upwardly at a fast rate of speed until it spews out of the nose of the zeppelin, as it is engulfed in a gargantuan hydrogen gas fueled fire while it crashes
to the ground. What you see is what you get; a spectacular 34 second, near 200,000 cubic meter hydrogen gas explosion which resulted in the total destruction of the
flying machine,1 accompanied by disturbing imagery of people running from the inferno while on
fire. Multiple videos and photographs captured the catastrophe, while an announcer agonized the phrase “Oh, the humanity!”, to create a pragma-dialectic
iconic image event that is still widely recognized across the world since its occurrence in 1937.
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