Survival

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The Associated Press	NYC'S ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL FIGHTS FOR LIFE A Greenwich Village charity hospital that has saved lives for more than 160 years - treating everyone from survivors of the Titanic to those injured on 9/11 - is now fighting for its own survival....	26th March 2010
Tampabay.com	THIS MOLLY IS STILL UNSINKABLE Long before Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin was born, a gal from Missouri was shattering glass ceilings of her own.Molly Brown, the child of Irish immigrants, married a lucky gold prospector in 1886 and came into money. But it was her unlikely survival of the Titanic disaster in 1912 that made her famous....	30th September 2008
Camden Daily Courier	NOTHING HEARD OF FREDERICK SUTTON Relatives and friends of Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, who was on board the Titanic when she sank on Sunday night after colliding with a huge iceberg, have given up all hope of his survival. Mr. Sutton was president of the Collingswood National B...	18th April 1912
coventrytelegraph.net	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S SON RECOUNTS STORY TO COVENTRY SCHOOLKIDS - COVENTRY TELEGRAPH THE son of Titanicâ€™s oldest survivor came to Coventry to share his motherâ€™s harrowing tale of survival on the maiden voyage. Edith Brown was just 15 when she sailed on the Titanic as a second-class passenger with her mum and dad. Before her death in 1997 at the age of 101, she told her 10 children about the tragic sinking of the legendary vessel, which struck an iceberg 400 miles off Newfoundland, Canada, on April 14 1912....	28th November 2011
The Times	TITANIC AND THE LUSITANIA DISASTERS REVEAL DIFFERENCE IN SURVIVAL INSTINCTS Almost 100 years after the Titanic and the Lusitania sank in the North Atlantic, the contrasting fates of their passengers have helped to explain how altruism can take over from the selfish instinct to save oneself. A scientific comparison of the two maritime disasters, which together claimed more than 2,700 lives just three years apart, has suggested that self-preservation can be trumped by social pressure to stand back while others are rescued, but only when people have sufficient time to think. ...
Denver Post	LENA STOIBER ROOD SEEKS HUSBAND BY ADVERTISING He Was On Titanic - She Hopes He May Have Escaped Death. Hoping against hope that her husband, Hugh Rood may have by some chance escaped death in the Titanic disaster, Mrs. Lena Stoiber Rood is making every effort to locate him, if he ...	6th May 1912
BBC News	BELFAST SURVIVOR SET FOR HOMECOMING Amid the shipwrecks scattered about Le Havre docks in France is a survival story. The SS Nomadic, a rusting relic so nearly sent to the scrapyard, is ready to come home. The Nomadic is to return to Belfast Weeds grow on its deck, and year after year of recent neglect have taken a heavy toll. Step onboard and you see the enormity of the renovation task. Look hard enough, however, and you do glimpse the potential. The question is will the millions needed be raised to do the job? ...	11th July 2006
Unidentified Newspaper	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
New York Times	HOW J. B. THAYER DIED Swept from Raft to Which His Son Managed to Cling --- The manner in which John B. Thayer, Second Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, met his death along with eighteen or twenty other men was described last night by Mrs. W. C. ...	19th April 1912
Titanic Review	SHADOW OF THE TITANIC: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORIES OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED Mark Chirnside Mark Chirnside reviews Andrew Wilson's new book exploring the later lives of Titanic's survivors....	29th November 2011
PRLog.org	TITANIC SURVIVOR WAS PLANNING 100TH ANNIVERSARY CRUISE Jun 12, 2009 - Millvina Dean, the last surviving passenger from the Titanic who died recently, was planning to go on a 100th anniversary memorial cruise back across the Atlantic in 2012....	15th June 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald	TITANIC SURVIVOR MR THOMAS TAVERNER Mario J. Borg Hi there all, it is me Mario J. Borg from Sydney Australia writing about the TITANIC Survivor Mr Thomas Taverner again and you you all can read this article: TITANIC Survivor Mr Thomas Taverner was invited to a special meeting in George Street at The Flying Angel Mission to Seaman in 1962 ...	7th April 1962
Times-Tribune	50 YEARS AFTER: A MEMORY OF THE TITANIC Rosemary Mossien BY ROSEMARY MOSSIEN Vivid memories of the horror of the sinking of the "unsinkable" ocean liner Titanic 50 years ago April 15 are recalled by Mrs. John Black, 11 Kay Terrace, only Rochesterian who is a survivor of the tragedy....	1962
Titanic Review	A RARE TITANIC FAMILY: THE CALDWELLS' STORY OF SURVIVAL Mike Poirier Families are often the guardians of history. Who would have imagined that a new, amateur photo taken aboard Titanic on the day she sailed would grace the cover of a book? Julie Hedgepeth Williams, a journalism professor, has gone throu...	11th February 2012
The Times	MILLVINA DEAN, LAST LIVING SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, DIES AGED 97 Nearly a century after she was rescued from the decks of the sinking Titanic, the last remaining survivor of the disaster has died, aged 97....	31st May 2009
Washington Times	MISS GRACIE HEARS FATHER IS AMONG PASSENGERS SAVED Capital Resident Said to Be Aboard the Carpathia With Others Taken From the Titanic --- STEAMER IS NOW HEADED FOR SOME AMERICAN PORT --- Col. Archibald Gracie, 1627 Sixteenth street, is saved from the wreck of the Titanic ...	16th April 1912