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prnewswire.com	TITANIC EXPLORER ROBERT BALLARD SAYS MAKE SCIENCE EDUCATION 'TOP PRIORITY' The oceanographer and explorer best known for discovering the Titanic urged federal lawmakers to continue investing in science education or "risk losing our standing as the most innovative and creative nation"......	7th April 2011
	MURDOCH MEMORIAL PRIZE STEWARTRY OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT COUNTY COUNCIL EDUCATION COMMITTEE DALBEATTIE HIGH SCHOOL Dalbeattie District School Management Committee hereby certify that CHARLES CONNOR has been the Winner of a Prize of FOUR POUN...
New York Times	PROFANITY AND CULTURE [LETTER TO THE EDITOR] To the Editor of The New York Times: Owing to the extensive use of profane and blasphemous language having become so common seemingly among people in all walks of life, many people have be...	31st October 1910
Herkimer Evening Telegram	'TITANIC, THE MUSICAL' OPENS THURSDAY The Ilion Central School production of 'Titanic, the Musical' will kick off Music in Our Schools Month this weekend, getting a jump start on the national celebration of music in education which runs throughout March....	27th February 2008
pocklingtonpost.co.uk	CHILDREN RAISE TITANIC'S AWARENESS WITH PROJECT Youngsters at Mount Pleasant Junior School in Market Weighton have submerged themselves into a topic looking at Titanic, the ship that sank in the Atlantic on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York almost 100 years ago......	13th May 2011
Staffordshire Advertiser	STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Mr. Leonard Hodgkinson, the fourth senior engineer, was a Stoke man, and has many relatives and friends in the district. As a boy he received his education at St. Thomas's School, Stoke. He served an apprenticeship with Messrs. Hartley and Arnoux, wh...	20th April 1912
Romsey Advertiser	TITANIC ART READY FOR MUSEUM LAUNCH SCHOOLCHILDREN combined art and history to create a display piece for Southamptonâ€™s new Sea City museum. The city council invited Wellow Primary School to put together a picture of the Titanic for one of the education rooms at the attraction ahead of its opening next year. Kerry Somers, history leader at the school, said the 10- and 11-year-olds jumped at the chance to create the exhibit. ...	1st December 2011
	INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Norman Harrison (1873-1912) AMIMechE Elected: Associate Member of the Inst...	17th November 1911
express.co.uk	MY GRANDFATHER TOOK TITANIC'S DEADLY SECRET TO THE GRAVE - EXPRESS.CO.UK MANY families have a secret, a skeleton that stays well and truly locked int he closet. City high-flier and novelist Louise Patten knows all about this kind of cloak and dagger concealment because for almost a century her own family has kept a secret of historical magnitude. Her story is not a tale of illegitimate heirs or ill gotten gains. Instead Louise, 57, who is married to former Conservative education secretary and life peer John Patten, claims to know what caused the Titanic to sink....	31st October 2011
	THOMAS HUGHES 1822-1896 (FATHER OF MRS. LILIAN CARTER) Lilian's father, Thomas Hughes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. He was a Liberal MP and barrister and spent much time promoting Working Men's Education and the Co-operative movement. He is most well known as author of 'Tom Brown's School...
The Guardian	OBITUARY OF BARBARA DAINTON Barbara Dainton, who has died aged 96, was one of the last surviving passengers from the Titanic, though her family were brought up never to mention it. She was well into her 80s before she spoke in public about the tragedy. Barbara's pare...	14th November 2007
The Guardian	NORTHERN IRELAND LOOKS TO TITANIC FOR ECONOMIC BOOST The most famous ship to sink is being used to refloat Northern Ireland's flagging economy. On the banks of the river where the Titanic was constructed, a leisure and education project is almost complete. The Stormont government hopes it will attract 50,000 extra tourists a year. With its gleaming glass, curved shape and illuminated roof, the Titanic building resembles the Bilbao Guggenheim. Like the Basque country museum, the tourist centre on the Lagan represents a society moving on from ethnic conflict and terrorism....	10th October 2011
New York Times	STRAUS MEMORIALS HELD Anniversary of Titanic Disaster Marked by Two Meetings --- Memorial services for Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster, were held yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Straus Memorial Hall of the Edu...	16th April 1913
Concord Journal	CAROLINE LAMSON BROWN The death of Mrs. John Murray Brown on Tuesday, June 26th, at the Emerson Hospital in Concord, removed from the scene a type of the handsome, accomplished woman who so well represented old New York in the late sixties and seventies of the last centur...	28th June 1928
New York Times	INCREASING PROFANITY AMONG BOYS [LETTER TO THE EDITOR] To the Editor of The New York Times: Of late we see accounts both in the United States and Canada calling attention to how profane and bad language is increasing among the boys. The truth of this cannot be denied by any one...	30th June 1909
	TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTES : LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE : WILDE C.23. Wilde. Read letter dated 28th May, 1914, received from Mr. O. Jones Williams (one of the Guardians of the children of the late Chief Officer Wilde). The Hon. Secretary reported that he had requested Mr. Williams to attend at the ...	8th June 1914
New York Times	SIR COSMO DUFF-GORDON Survivor of Titanic Disaster Dies in London at Age of 68 --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 20---Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, survivor of the Titanic disaster of 1912, died in London today at the age of 6...	21st April 1931
The Nation	STEAD AND FUTRELLE article...	25th April 1912
Washington Times	CLARENCE MOORE, WHO MAY HAVE LOST HIS LIFE, WELL KNOWN IN CAPITAL Clarence Moore, of Washington, whose name is included in the list of first-cabin passengers on the Titanic, left Washington March 16. He was particularly interested in seeing the Liverpool steeplechase races while abroad, and if he remained to see th...	16th April 1912
New York Times	PROFANITY AMONG BOYS [EDITORIAL] The statement made in a letter to THE TIMES this morning by Mr. GEORGE WRIGHT that blasphemous and degrading language is increasing not only among the illiterate but "among those in the higher walks of life" may be doubted. Quite possibl...	30th June 1909
Newark Evening News	WORD RECEIVED HERE OF C. M. HAYS'S RESCUE Among those well known in this city and suburbs whose name has been flashed as among the rescued from the Titanic, is Charles Melville Hays, president of the Grand Trunk and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway companies, of Canada, of Canada, a nephew of...	16th April 1912
	GENERAL INFORMATION Sofia was a maid. She was born in the village of Riistavesi, near Kuopio, in 1874. She moved to Helsinki in 1905, where she worked at the School For The Blind for three years. After this job she worked for some time at the Missionary House, and then ...
	PROFILE FROM THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS William Edward Hipkins (1858 - 1912) MIMechE Elected: Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1898 Designation: Managing Director Business address: Soho Foundry, Smethwick, Birmingham ...	1898
Chorley Guardian	THE TITANIC DISASTER: A NATIVE OF CHORLEY SAVED Mr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the second officer of the ill-fated Titanic, who is among those who were saved, is a native of Chorley. He is the son of Mr. Fred J. Lightoller, and was born in 1874, receiving his education at the Chorley Grammar S...	27th April 1912
	TITANIC SCHOOLS PROJECT Terry Madill conducts a schools visit to the Titanic Quarter, Belfast, helping to educate young people about what life was like for those who worked on the building of the Titanic, the world's most famous ocean going liner...	30th August 2011
New York Times	FRIENDS OF MAJOR BUTT WOULD ERECT A MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM AT HIS ALMA MATER, SEWANEE, ... Friends of Major Butt Would Erect a Memorial Gymnasium at His Alma Mater, Sewanee, to Whose Endowment Fund J. P. Morgan Has Promised $150,000 --- High on the Cumberland plateau, midway between Nashville and Chatanooga, [sic] in ...	9th June 1912
New York Times	CLARENCE MOORE Washington Banker One of the Best-Known Sportsmen in America --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15---Clarence Moore of 1,748 Massachusetts Avenue, a passenger on the Titanic, is one of the best-known s...	16th April 1912
New York Times	MEMORIAL NOTICE STRAUS-Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society (Orphan Asylum,) passed at a meeting specially called for the purpose of considering the tragic and untimely death of Isidor Straus: Isidor Straus t...	4th May 1912
New York Times	THE SMART MYSTERY A young man of 20 years and a girl of 18 were the objects of a great deal of sympathy when the Titanic went down last April. They were the children, according to gossip, of JAMES MONTGOMERY SMART, who perished in the wreck. Orphaned and desolate, som...	8th January 1913
New York Times	WILLIAM DICK DIES; AN INDUSTRIALIST Director of the National Sugar Refining Co., Best Foods, Inc., and Irving Trust Was 65 --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- ISLIP, L. I., Sept. 5---William K. Dick, industrialist, banker and grandson of a pioneer in the f...	6th September 1953
New York Times	SEEK THE CHILDREN OF TITANIC VICTIM John M. Smart's Son and Daughter at School in Europe, Ignorant of Father's Fate --- HE HAD JUST VISITED THEM --- But Said Nothing of His Personal Affairs to His New York Business Associates --- By Marconi Tra...	5th June 1912
The Times	HAROLD COTTAM Obituary...	31st May 1984
New York Times	CAN FIND NO TRACE OF SMART CHILDREN Estate of Titanic Victim Cannot Be Settled Until They Have Been Notified --- SUPPOSED TO BE IN EUROPE --- Father Was Returning from a Visit to Them and All His Private Papers Were Lost with Him --- Frederick ...	14th July 1912
	ALFRED NOURNEY OBITUARY Arne Mjåland Translated from German language by Arne Mjaland: He died 60 years after the Titanic. Tennis club lost honour member . On the April 15 1912 he experienced the most terrible night in his life. In February this ye...	18th November 1972
New York Times	HENRY B. HARRIS Well-Known Theatrical Manager Who Has Won Many Successes --- Henry B. Harris, who leaped into prominence in the New York theatrical field only about half a dozen years ago as manager, and producer, was, nevertheless, a veteran of many y...	16th April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal	ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC News of Relatives Anxiously Awaited by Families In This City ---------- SCHOOL FLAGS ORDERED AT HALF-MAST ---------- Fred Jefferies, of 21B Florida street, is anxiously awaiting word of his sister, two brothers and...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	FRANCIS D. MILLET, SOLDIER, PAINTER, AND CONNOISSEUR Francis D. Millet, while comparatively unknown even to Washingtonians, despite the fact that he has made this city his home for years, and has given the best of his artistic life toward the beautification of Washington, was one of the city’s most pic...	16th March 1912
Rockford Morning Star	TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES IN ROCKFORD DAGMAR BRYHL NOW WITH RELATIVES IN PEARL STREET. WILL RETURN TO SWEDEN Worst Experience of Night of Horrors Was When She Was Unmercifully Parted From Sweetheart and Brother Entirely unnerved by the strain...	26th April 1912
New York Times	DAUGHTERS OF JACOB HONOR IDA STRAUS Unveil Tablet in Their Home Commemorating Her Beautiful Life and Heroic End --- AGED CHANT PRAYERS FOR HER --- Self-Sacrificing Devotion of Titanic Victim Held Up as an Inspiration to the Women of Her Race ---...	25th November 1912
Belfast Telegraph	EU FUNDING TO BOOST RESTORATION OF TITANIC TENDER SHIP The restoration of a tender ship which ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic was boosted today with the award of over Â£2 million in European funding. Last month auditors expressed concern that the Â£7 million refit of the derelict SS Nomadic may not be completed, on schedule, for the centenary of its launch in Belfast in 2011 due to a cash shortfall. ...
San Francisco Chronicle	NEW TITANIC EXHIBIT IN SAN FRANCISCO In telling the oft-told tale of engineering hubris and an iceberg in the night, the show's organizers and designers feed the public's sturdy appetite for Titanic lore and kitsch. They do it by merging some 300 relics with reconstructed spaces from the ship, theatrically dramatic lighting, ambient sound and period music, photomurals, video and hands-on details. The viewer's sensory pleasure is foremost throughout, right down to a freezer-cooled iceberg you can walk up to and touch. Everything here is meant to seduce and entertain -- with a pinch of education as a bonus -- and much of the show succeeds in doing just that. ...	12th June 2006
Titanic Review	E.J. THE STORY OF EDWARD J. SMITH. CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC Brian J. Ticehurst THIS is Gary Coopers second book on the RMS Titanic's Captain. His first book The Man Wh...	5th May 2009
New York Times	CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS Grand Trunk President Planned Great Canadian Transcontinental --- Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies, has been considered one of the most brilliant and successful of railroad of...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	PRESIDENT'S AIDE AMONG PASSENGERS ON CRIPPLED SHIP Major Butt Was to Have Returned to Capital Shortly --- Major Archibald Butt, military aid to President; Clarence Moore, prominent in Washington social and financial circles, as well as one of the city’s best known horsemen; Frank D. Mil...	16th April 1912
New York Times	BUSINESS MEN OF NEW-YORK---ISIDOR STRAUS Isidor Straus is a fair type of the broadminded, public-spirited men through whom this city maintains its commercial supremacy and its metropolitan character. Knowing the entire alphabet of his business, quick to seize upon and improve opportunities ...	29th October 1893