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Shore News Today | (2009) | IN-DEPTH EXPLORATION OF TITANIC AT NEXT HISTORICAL SOCIETY TALK The next historical society meeting will be a Titanic event. Tom Maddox of Estell Manor, the owner of East Coast Diving in Northfield, will share his experience of being one of the last divers to see the Titanic during a Greate Egg Harbour Historical Society presentation 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 at the Egg Harbor Township Community Center.... | 20th October 2009 | ||
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KNORR The Research Ship Knorr, from which the wreck of the Titanic was discovered, 1st September, 1985The vessel is pictured at Woods Hole, Massachusetts in October 1999.... | |||||
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PURSUIT OF GRACE: ABOARD THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND A new historical fiction novel about the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. This historically accurate account is written by a Salvation Army Staff Band member, the same band whose predecessors were aboard the Empress the night the ship sank.... | |||||
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(2009) | NOVELIST POISED TO MAKE HISTORY WITH TITANIC BOOK June 2009 - Vineland, N.J. - In an ambitious first novel, author W. Mae Kent accomplishes a literary feat that has never been attempted before: she tells the story of the only black passenger traveling on the ill-fated Titanic. While Kent’s ... | 9th September 2009 | |||
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(1996) | MICHEL NAVRATIL JR IN PARIS At a Titanic Historical Society's Meeting... | 1996 | |||
| New York Times | (1954) | $5,000,000 IS WILLED FOR BLOOD RESEARCH Page 14, Column 4 PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3-- Jefferson Medical College and Hospital will receive more than $5,000,000 for blood research under the will of Thomas Drake Martinez Cardeza, Philadelphia art collector, explorer ... | 4th August 1954 | |||
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FRED FLEET'S GRAVE Arranged and paid by the Titanic Historical Society... | |||||
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The Daily Journal (Vineland, N.J., U.S.A.) | (2009) | EXTRA-BIG LESSON AT V'LAND SCHOOL Third graders research and imitate Titanic passengers.... | 21st April 2009 | ||
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The Republican | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR, MILLVINA DEAN, WILL BE MISSED BY SPRINGFIELD-BASED TITANIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY By RAY KELLY rkelly@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - Millvina Dean kept a low profile about her connection to one of the world's most well known disasters until she was urged into the media spotlight by the Indian Orchard-based Titanic Historical Society.... | 3rd June 2009 | ||
| (1912) | LETTER FROM F.D. MILLET AND THE NEW BEDFORD LIBRARY A letter written by F.D. Millet shortly before he left on a trip to Rome early in 1912. In the letter he discusses his plans for painting murals for the New Bedford Public Library in Massachusetts that was being remodeled. In the letter he mention... | 6th February 1912 | ||||
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NEW BOOK ABOUT TITANIC An interesting and amazing research has just... | |||||
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Fleetwood Today | (2008) | TITANIC TALK PLANNED A TALK on the legendary sunken liner, Titanic, is to be given tomorrow (Thursday March 6) by Poulton woman Jill Marr. The talk will be given at a meeting of Fleetwood and District Historical Society.... | 5th March 2008 | ||
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Las Vegas Weekly | (2009) | TITANIC EXHIBIT AN EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND CHILLING REMINDER OF HISTORICAL TRAGEDY There's a definite chill in the air when you step out on the deck re-creation of the new Titanic exhibit. One moment you are marveling at the stunning staterooms and grand lobby of the great ship, and the next you're so close to the icebergs, you can actually touch them.... | 2nd January 2009 | ||
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MARK CHIRNSIDE’S RECEPTION ROOM Titanic and 'Olympic' class research site, with a focus on Mark Chirnside's books and articles.... | |||||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | HISTORIC HOME OF TITANIC SHIPYARD FOUNDER RAZED TO THE GROUND Residents last night spoke of their 'absolute shock' after the historical homes of Gustav Wolff - of Harland and Wolff fame - which they fought to save, were demolished. The two 19th century cottages in east Belfast were last summer spot listed by the Environmental Heritage Service (EHS) after a campaign was launched to prevent their destruction.... | 20th January 2009 | ||
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Crosby Herald | (2008) | WATERLOO'S TITANIC LINK IS MARKED AT NEW HOME DEVELOPMENT A NEW building development marks Waterloo's historical link to the Titanic.The former coach house in Murat Street, which was once the property of Titanic owner Thomas Henry Ismay, has been transformed into a new housing development.... | 24th April 2008 | ||
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Boston Globe | (2007) | FAMILY BATTLES MUSEUM OVER TITANIC LEGACY In 1987, five years after Goldsmith's death, his widow found among his personal papers a manuscript in which he put down his memories of the fateful day. Now, 20 years later, Goldsmith's family is battling the Springfield-based Titanic Historical Society, over the rights to the manuscript.... | 8th May 2007 | ||
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The Ulster Herald | (2007) | TITANIC FAMILY TALE INSPIRES MARTINA'S LATEST WORK OF FICTION WHEN Omagh author Martina Devlin was doing some research for a book, she stumbled upon some facts which suggested that in her own family history, there was Titanic tragedy and romance to rival that of the greatest of Hollywood love stories.... | 30th August 2007 | ||
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune | (2008) | EXPERT ON THE TITANIC WILL SPEAK AT LIBRARY Kenneyth Chamberlin, a member of the Titanic Historical Society, will present a talk about the 1912 sinking of the luxury ocean linear."The Titanic: A Night to Remember" will be at 1 p.m., Oct. 18, at the Manatee County Central Library, 1301 Barcarrota Blvd. W., Bradenton. Admission is free. The Friends of the Central Library are sponsoring the program.... | 6th October 2008 | ||
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Daily Telegraph | (2006) | NATIONAL ARCHIVES TO PUT TITANIC RECORDS ON THE NET ?2.5m deal to scan and place online the National Archives' entire historical database of passengers who embarked on sea voyages from Britain's shores between 1890 and 1960. This includes the one and only voyage of Titanic, which was made into a Hollywood blockbuster starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio.The estimated 30m individual records include details of emigrations to Australia, North and South America, India and Africa.... | 2nd April 2006 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2008) | NOMADIC JOINS ELITE LIST OF FINE SHIPS The Titanic's little sister has joined an elite list of the finest historical ships in the UK to have survived to the present day. The SS Nomadic (pictured above) joins the likes of the Cutty Sark, the Mary Rose and the Royal Yacht Britannia on a list of just 61 ships that form the Core Collection of the National Register of Historic Vessels (NRHV). The 96-year-old, Belfast-built ship was tender to many of the great transatlantic liners and also served in two world wars.... | 5th September 2008 | ||
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Business Wire | (2006) | CARPATHIA PLAN FOR RMS TITANIC INC. NULL... | 20th January 2006 | ||
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Louisville Courier-Journal | TITANIC EXHIBIT COMING TO LOUISVILLE A major touring exhibit that includes artifacts from the ill-fated cruise ship Titanic will be at the Louisville Science Center starting in October. "'Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition' will allow many Louisvillians to experience the Louisville Science Center again, in a new way, with their children and grandchildren," said Joanna Haas, the Science Center's executive director. "We are proud to host this blockbuster exhibition, and thrilled to give our visitors the opportunity to explore this historical ship and to investigate, question and seek answers together."... | ||||
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(1911) | DOROTHY GIBSON IN "HANDS ACROSS THE SEA" A scene from "Hands Across the Sea," produced by Éclair-America, the company’s debut film and Dorothy Gibson’s first starring role. She actually took several parts in this movie, which was an historical tableau enacting events of the American Revolut... | 1911 | |||
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The Times | (2006) | TINY FLAWS THAT CAUSED A TITANIC WASTE OF LIFE New evidence suggests that the rescue of 1,500 people would have succeeded but for weak rivets that allowed the hull to 'unzip', Mark Henderson reports THE most celebrated disaster in maritime history owed as much to substandard rivets as it did to the iceberg, an analysis of the sinking of the Titanic has revealed. The liner would have survived the collision for long enough for most of, or even all, its passengers to be rescued had it not been put together with weak rivets that caused its hull to 'unzip' on impact with the ice, according to the new research.... | 16th September 2006 | ||
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PR-CANADA.net | (2008) | IUNIVERSE WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF TITANIC: RELATIVE FATE BY V.C. KING Nearly one hundred years after the catastrophe, people around the world are still intrigued by the events leading up to the ultimate destruction and sinking of the historic ship, Titanic. Wanting to engage readers in a present-day story fabricated from the legendary ship, author V.C. King put her research skills, interest in the topic and natural story-telling abilities together to create her second published book, Titanic: Relative Fate.... | 20th May 2008 | ||
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ABC News | (2006) | TITANIC SPLIT THEORY CHALLENGED "This ship didn't split apart because it sank," said John Chatterton, a co-host of the History Channel's "Deep Sea Detectives." "It sank because it split apart. And if you're the person onboard a ship, having it split apart is even scarier than having it slowly sink."Chatterton and his co-host, Richie Kohler, set out on an expedition to research the legendary ocean liner last summer. They encountered two huge sections of the bottom - 60 feet by 90 feet - from the area where the ship had split in two. That led to a new theory about how the Titanic had sunk. ... | 26th February 2006 | ||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1996) | OLDEST TITANIC SURVIVOR PLANS VISIT TO SITE Ceremony will honor tragic sinking BOSTON -- The oldest living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic wants to visit the site this summer and throw a rose into the Atlantic Ocean where her father went down with the ship 84 years ago. ... | 10th April 1996 | |||
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ET Research | (2005) | TITANIC TEXT : DEMYSTIFYING HISTORICAL STUDY Internet research tips for beginners From biographies and cultural essays to technical papers and scientific analyses, ET Research at Encyclopedia-Titanica.org is the leading online destination for original, in-depth studi... | 20th September 2005 | ||
| The Daily Banner | (1912) | VICTIM SENDS A MESSAGE FROM SPIRIT WORLD Paris, May 14 William T. Stead, the famous writer and delver into the psychic, who went down in the wreck of the Titanic, is said to have sent a message from the spirit world saying that his death was painless and perfectly calm. ... | 14th May 1912 | |||
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Shrewsbury Chronicle | (2006) | TITANIC SURVIVOR IN SHREWSBURY Hollywood's romantic version of the tragedy that occurred on April 14, 1912, aboard the "ship God couldn't sink," the SS Titanic, probably isn't the way one Shrewsbury resident remembers it. Her story does have a real hero - a man who sacrificed... | 9th February 2006 | ||
| (2005) | BRAVERY AWARD I have in my possession (recently discovered) a rare illuminated accommodation awarded to the Purser (Ernest G F Brown RNR) of the RMS Carpathia, the first ship to rescue the survivors from the “Titanic” sinking. Ernest Brown was originally from ... | 1st April 2005 | ||||
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MinnPost | (2009) | TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS ST. PAUL; RESEARCHER SAYS HIT MOVIE NOT ACCURATE As the Titanic exhibit opens today at the Science Museum of Minnesota -- with artifacts from the 1912 shipwreck along with newly discovered articles from the ship that rescued many of the passengers -- a Minnesota writer with a passion for the top... | 14th June 2009 | ||
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EurekAlert | (2006) | WOODS HOLE ENGINEERING TEAM FROM TITANIC DISCOVERY TO BE HONORED The underwater research vehicle Jason Jr., which gained international attention for its exploration inside the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic in July 1986, and its engineering team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will be honored July 14... | 12th July 2006 | ||
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CROW'S NEST TELEPHONE KEY RMS Titanic: Second Officer David Blair OBE. Iron key with brass oval tag attached "Crows Nest Telephone Key". Research by Henry Aldridge and Son, and eminent Titanic historians has established that the key was either to the portable Grah... | |||||
| New York Times | (1929) | WALDMANS SEEK DIVORCE Mother of Children Who Fell to Death Here Sues in Paris --- Copyright by The Chicago Tribune Co. --- PARIS, Nov. 27---Mrs. Barbara Guggenheim Waldman, whose two children were killed in a thirteen-story fall from the roof o... | 28th November 1929 | |||
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ET Reviews | (2002) | COMPELLING TITANIC THOUGHTS FROM THE ROCK It is often not an easy task, nor a popular enterprise, to be a revisionist of ocean liner history. Proof of this is found, for example, in Coli... | 29th September 2002 | ||
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TDN | (2009) | TITANIC'S HISTORY LIVES ON THROUGH LOCAL MAN When John Stuart saw a newspaper article Monday about the death of the last Titanic survivor, his first thought was, 'My gosh, I talked to her. I have her signature.'The retired Castle Rock history teacher chatted with Millvina Dean at... | 5th June 2009 | ||
| (2003) | EDWARD JAMES WILLIAM ROGERS (FAMILY RESEARCH) Edward James William Rogers was born on 9th September 1880, to Robert James Rogers and his wife Priscilla Susan (nee Bagley). His father was a bricklayer and the family lived at 3 Robert Street, North Woolwich. Edward JW was baptized on 3rd November ... | 2003 | ||||
| Unidentified Encyclopædia | JOHN HARPER [Extract] John Harper, the newly called pastor of Moody Church in the early 1900's, manifested his Christian character in the sinking of the Titanic. Dr. W. B. Riley related the death of Harper. "We have the history of John Harper's en... | |||||
| (2003) | EDWARD HENRY BAGLEY (RESEARCH ABOUT HIS LIFE) Edward Henry Bagley was born to Edward Bagley and his wife Lucy Bagley (nee Longhurst) on the 4th March 1879. The family lived at 17 Wightman Street, Plaistow, London. His father worked as a labourer at a soap works, and by the time of the boy's bapt... | 2003 | ||||
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examiner.com | (2009) | 'TITANIC' TO DROP ANCHOR IN TENNESSEE There have been maritime disasters that have taken more lives, and larger ships have sank since, but none have held the fascination like the RMS Titanic. Numerous books, movies, and even a musical have been written about her; there is a Titanic Hi... | 8th July 2009 | ||
| (1911) | MISS DOROTHY GIBSON, HARRISON FISHER MUSE, NOW PICTURE STAR Miss Dorothy Gibson, the well-known beauty who is the muse of Mr. Harrison Fisher, the popular illustrator of feminine charms, has forsaken the studio of the artist for that of the motion picture. Miss Gibson, who is the sitter for man... | 1911 | ||||
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JOHN COTTER, HARBOR PILOT FOR QUEENSTOWN To all who are interested in John Cotter, Harbor Pilot for Queenstown My name is Peter Gauthier and I am the Great, Great Grandson of said John Cotter. Specifically, one of his daughters Maggie or Margaret, who my mother is named ... | |||||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (2001) | LAST MALE SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DIES One of the last known survivors of the Titanic, Michel Navratil, has died in southern France at the age of 92. He was just three years old when the ship hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic and sank shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912. ... | 2nd February 2001 | |||
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NEBRASKAN SURVIVOR RARELY SPOKE OF TRAGEDY Einar Gervasius Carlson, formerly Karlsson was born in Oakarshamn, Sweden on June 19, 1890. He was 21 years old when he and a friend, Johan Charles Asplund boarded the Titanic for the United States. They were originally booked on the ship Adriatic... | |||||
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BBC News | (2008) | DRAMATIC FOOTAGE OF BRITANNIC Forgotten by many and unheard of by most. Yet the sister-ship of the Titanic is starting to escape from the shadow of the iconic shipwreck.HMHS Britannic was completed at Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard two years after Titanic was lo... | 21st November 2008 | ||
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ET Reviews | (2009) | RETURN TO TITANIC, BY DR. ROBERT D. BALLARD Minnetonka, Minnesota. May, 1988... In a one-level rambler on a street with the pretty name "Croftview Terrace", a young boy sits mesmerized. A letter in his hand. A letter written on the stationary of the Woods Hole Oce... | 9th April 2009 | ||
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Duluth Weekly | (2009) | TITANIC AQUATIC AT THE GEORGIA AQUARIUM Historical Exhibition Welcomes 150,000th Visitor This WeekATLANTA (April 22, 2009) Premier Exhibitions, Inc. today announced its new blockbuster attraction, Titanic: Aquatic at the Georgia Aquarium, will be extending its run through Sept... | 29th April 2009 | ||
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ET Research | (2008) | DETERIORATION OF THE RMS TITANIC The RMS. Titanic has laid 2.5 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean since her sinking, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on April 14, 1912. Many questions were raised on the state of the vessel condition and how sh... | 11th January 2008 | ||
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Southern Daily Echo | DESIGNERS UNVEILED FOR SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM THE team that will design Southampton’s £15m Titanic museum has been appointed. In a major step forward for the world-class tourist attraction, Southampton City Council has appointed award-winning architects Wilkinson Ey... | ||||
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South Devon Herald Express | (2009) | TRUE IDENTITY OF TITANIC VICTIM Thursday, April 23, 2009, 09:04HISTORIAN Mike Holgate has discovered the answer to a mystery surrounding the identity of a Torquay man who died on the Titanic.Despite the vast amount of research undertaken during the 98 years ... | 29th April 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1962) | HOKAN B. STEFFANSON DIES AT 78; FINANCIER WAS ON THE TITANIC Page 45, columns 2-3 Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, a financier, died Monday night at Doctor's Hospital after a long illness. His age was 78 and he lived at 56 East Fifty-seventh Street. Mr. Steffanson was a survivor of t... | 23rd May 1962 | |||
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ET Research | (2002) | THE LAST OF THE LOST A Preliminary Report on the Palaeo-DNA Project and the Unidentified TITANIC Victims in the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Cemeteries Revised abstract of a May 4, 2002 talk presented at the 2002 Convention Titanic Inte... | 3rd August 2002 | ||
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BBC News | (2009) | VOYAGE RETRACES TITANIC JOURNEY A holiday company is to retrace the voyage of the Titanic as part of the 100th anniversary of the disaster. The 12-night cruise, with tickets priced from £2,595, will follow the route of the ill-fated ship which sank in April 1912 ki... | 8th October 2009 | ||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1987) | UNTITLED EXTRACT Mrs. Mary Davies Wilburn, the oldest known living survivor of the Titanic disaster. Mrs. Wilburn, who was 104, died on July 29, 1987 at the Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York. For the past eight years, she was a resident at the Loretto ... | 1987 | |||
| New York Times | (1893) | NOW ABRAHAM & STRAUS BIG CHANGE IN A BIG STORE WHICH ALL BROOKLYN KNOWS --- One of the most interesting business changes of the year went into effect yesterday, when the retail dry goods firm of Wechsler & Abraham became the firm of Abraham & Straus, the ne... | 2nd April 1893 | |||
| Brighton Argus | (2005) | CAR BOOT BARGAIN HUNT FINDS TITANIC TREASURE A rare item of memorabilia from the Titanic worth thousands of pounds has turned up at a car boot sale. Amateur historian Trevor Bailey, of Kings Road, Brighton, and his daughter Rachel paid just £10 for the bundle... | 2nd April 2005 | |||
| New York Times | (1956) | ALEXANDER RICE, EXPLORER, WAS 80 Physician and Author Dies---Made Trips on the Amazon and Taught Navigation --- Special to The New York Times --- NEWPORT, R. I, July 23---Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, explorer of the Amazon, author and member of the summe... | 24th July 1956 | |||
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Orland Park Prairie | TITANIC ARRIVES IN ORLAND PARK It was a honeymoon gone wrong for John Henry Chapman and his bride, Sarah Elizabeth Lawry. Lawry, 29, of Spokane, Wash., was headed from Southhampton, England, to Fitzburn, Wisc. with her husband to be closer to her brother, William. The... | ||||
| Santa Barbara News-Press | (1990) | RUTH BLANCHARD DIES, WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Ruth Becker Blanchard, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Friday at home in Santa Barbara. She was 90. Mrs. Blanchard died of complications of a stomach ulcer and old age, said Don Lynch, spokesman for the Titanic Hist... | 8th July 1990 | |||
| 1976 LETTER FROM MRS. SNYDER ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE ON TITANIC By letter postmarked 11/22/76, Mrs. Rawley Miller (Mrs. Snyder's daughter) was so wonderful as to send me the following typewritten letter, signed by Mrs. Snyder, with a handwritten note from Mrs. Miller. ... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1930) | ORIGIN OF NAMES OF HOTELS HERE Named for Interested Families or After Well-Known European Hostelries --- ST. REGIS CALLED FOR LAKE --- Suggested to the Late John Jacob Astor by Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson --- So numerous are the hotels of New Yo... | 9th March 1930 | |||
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ET Reviews | (2004) | THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC BY MARK CHIRNSIDE Titanic is arguably the most famous ship in history, and her popularity has often come at the expense of her siblings. Yet she was but one of a trio of sister ships. The number of titles that have attempted to tell the story ... | 6th December 2004 | ||
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ET Reviews | (2009) | THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NIGHT The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost The “Californian Incident”, as it has become known, has probably generated more debate, destro... | 16th June 2009 | ||
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ET Research | (2002) | RMS TITANIC: A LEGAL UPDATE 1 Introduction Although Titanic sank 90 years ago, it remains the focal point for legal appeals and international treaty negotiations. This paper provides an overview[1] of t... | 15th March 2002 | ||
