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BBC News	OCEAN SCIENCE GIANT ALVIN SET FOR UPGRADE Few research tools in the history of science can match the achievements of Alvin the US manned deep-submersible....	16th December 2010
Metro Canada - Calgary	SCIENCE CENTRE TO GO DOWN WITH TITANIC Organizers of a Titanic-themed exhibition hope to send the current Telus World of Science headquarters off in style....	5th February 2011
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review	CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER SEEKS LOCAL TITANIC CONNECTIONS The Carnegie Science Center today put out a call seeking local connections to the doomed RMS Titanic. On May 24, the North Shore Science Center will open Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, featuring a recovered piece of the ship's hull and more than 260 artifacts. Western Pennsylvania RMS Titanic descendants are asked to tell their family histories by sending an e-mail....	15th May 2008
The Daily News Online	TITANIC SURFACES AT SCIENCE CENTER A collection of items from the ill-fated Titanic is featured in a recently opened exhibit at the Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave....	4th November 2009
Orlando Business Journal	TITANIC RESURFACES AT SCIENCE CENTER G. Michael harris, owner of the now-closed Titanic - The Exhibition is finalizing a 12 month run of the exhibit, with an added scientific component, at the Orlando Science Center starting Dec. 15....	9th September 2007
io9	10 UNSINKABLE SCIENCE FICTION STORIES ABOUT THE TITANIC The RMS Titanic sank almost a century ago, but it's still sailing through the imaginations of science-fiction writers and artists. Here are 10 Titanic tales, including Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke, and Doctor Who....	16th April 2009
WBIR-TV	TITANIC PIGEON FORGE PUBLISHES KODAK BOY'S BOOK Luke Copas is a whiz in science class. "We're studying the food chains the food webs and food pyramids" says Copas describing this weeks science lesson....	23rd September 2010
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review	SCIENCE CENTER GETS SET FOR 'TITANIC' SUMMER The Carnegie Science Center will open a special summer exhibit on the Titanic, the ship that struck an iceberg 96 years ago on the night of April 14th, and sank into the Atlantic Ocean early the next morning. ...	19th April 2008
14WFIE.com	TITANIC EXHIBITION AT LOUISVILLE SCIENCE CENTER Relics from the Titanic are on display in Louisville. The Science Center is hosting Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. Six of the 150 items are being displayed for the first time....	2nd December 2009
TravelVideo.tv	TITANIC TO DOCK AT LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER STARTING OCTOBER 3, 2009 Tickets are now on sale for Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, viewed by more than 22 million people worldwide and hailed as a must-see. The Exhibition features 150 artifacts and opens at the Louisville Science Center in Louisville, Ky., on October 3....	22nd September 2009
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
International Falls Daily Journal	TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION Exhibit at Science Museum bring visitors closer than ever the real TitanicOn June 12, the Science Museum of Minnesota will open the doors of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, an exhibition that features a spectacular collection of more than 250 authentic artifacts recovered from the haunting wreckage of the world-famous ocean liner....	22nd May 2009
Pittsburgh Post Gazette	TITANIC ON THE OHIO: EXTENSIVE 'ARTIFACT EXHIBITION' SURFACES AT THE SCIENCE CENTER "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" takes visitors on a vivid journey through one of history's most tragic chapters -- the sinking of RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912.The traveling exhibition opens Saturday at Carnegie Science Center's SportsWorks....	22nd May 2008
Orlando Sentinel	TITANIC SAILS: EXHIBIT MOVES FROM INTERNATIONAL DRIVE TO ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER 'Titanic The Experience," once an International Drive staple, has new quarters at the Orlando Science Center. It's a move forward for the exhibit, which has entrenched itself in a 1912 mind-set. ...	24th December 2007
Airflights - Westcliff-on-sea	TITANIC EXHIBITION TO SURFACE IN ORLANDO An exhibition exploring the Titanic is to move to the Science Centre in Orlando this year.Titanic - The Experience will move from the shut-down Mercado shopping centre on International Drive to the Science Centre in December, the Orlando Sentinel reports....	29th October 2007
northernlife.ca	SCIENCE NORTH COMMEMORATES THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC It was majestic. It was technologically advanced. It was supreme luxury. It sank off the coast of Newfoundland nearly 100 years ago and 1,517 people perished. More importantly, 706 survived to tell their stories. Fascination with the Titanic continues to this day, and on April 14, 2012, Science North will commemorate the sinking of the Titanic with a gala evening befitting of the most famous ocean liner in history. This event will bring people back in history to that fateful evening in 1912, and will include a modernized version of the last dinner served to the first class guests on the Titanic. ...	14th June 2011
	BRITANNIC FUNNEL From 'La Science et la Vie', January 1914...	1914
Minneapolis Star Tribune	WHAT REALLY SANK THE TITANIC? Tim Foecke grew up in Edina and Howard Lake and earned B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in material science and engineering from the University of Minnesota....	11th June 2009
La Science et la Vie	TITANIC BOILERS From 'La Science et la Vie', June 1913...	1913
La Science et la Vie	OLYMPIC ENGINES From 'La Science et la Vie', June 1913...	1913
La Science et la Vie	WATERTIGHT DOORS ON BOARD A WHITE STAR LINER From 'La Science et la Vie', June 1913...	1913
La Science et la Vie	SUBMARINE SIGNALLING SYSTEM ON A WHITE STAR LINER From 'La Science et la Vie', July 1915...	1915
Daily Mail	MR. BEESLEY THOUGHT MISSING Mr. LAWRENCE BEESLEY. - Son of the late Mr. H. Beesley, bank manager, Wirkshire [sic], Derbyshire, late science master at Dulwich College....	18th April 1912
York Daily Record	NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN TITANIC ARTIFACTS ON DISPLAY IN HARRISBURG An exhibit of artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Titanic brings to town 150 pieces never before seen at Harrisburg's Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts....	30th March 2010
La Science et la Vie	COLOGNE TRAIN STATION Alfred Nourney left Cologne, Germany, from this train station...	1915
Belfast Telegraph	STRANMILLIS PUPILS DOCK FOR TITANIC HISTORY LESSON Stranmillis Primary School pupils have enjoyed a titanic experience at Belfasts maritime landmark sites courtesy of the Northern Ireland Science Park....	22nd February 2011
Minneapolis Star Tribune	TREASURES FROM TITANIC'S RESCUE SHIP TO VISIT Artifacts from the ship that responded to the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 will make their worldwide debut at the Science Museum of Minnesota in June, officials for the St. Paul museum announced Tuesday....	1st April 2009
KARE	TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION A 3,000 pound piece of one of history's best known stories recently arrived at the Science Museum of Minnesota. It came to Saint Paul on a special flatbed truck. Then museum crews had to rent a heavy-duty fork lift to move it....	12th June 2009
Canada.com	JOURNEY ON THE TITANIC I am handed a White Star Line boarding pass, bearing a name - my new identity for the next hour - before I enter the Titanic exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre.My name is Mrs. William Coutts, but you can call me Winnie. I'm from Southampton, England and I'm boarding the RMS Titanic here with my two young sons. We'll be staying in the third-class cabins....	3rd August 2007
KPNX-12	TITANIC EXPLORER DEBUTS NEW SCIENCE PROGRAM With a hearty laugh, Dr. Robert Ballard, world renowned oceanographer and discoverer of the Titanic, likes what he's seeing in north Phoenix. It's Ballard's latest project, and sharing his discoveries has been worth the struggle. "I go to incredible places, but it's hard to take a lot of people with me," Ballard confided....	7th April 2008
Yourhub.com	TITANIC AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE: There is something special about that ship, the RMS Titanic, which sank over 95 years ago on April 15, 1912. The ship, built in Belfast, Ireland, set sail for America at noon on April 10, 1912 on its maiden voyage and sailed off into history and folklore as well....	28th December 2007
Christian Science Sentinel	TESTIMONIES OF HEALING Lawrence Beesley It would be impossible within a limited space to do more than enumerate the profound changes of thought which Christian Science has wrought in me during the seven years I have known of it. When I first saw the text-book, "Science and Health with Key ...	20th December 1912
	PARSONS STEAM TURBINE INVENTOR From 'La Science et la Vie', July 1915...	1915
MinnPost.com	NEW TITANIC EXHIBIT COMING TO SCIENCE MUSEUM Nearly 10 years ago, Minnesotans streamed into St. Paul's Union Depot to see some long-lost pieces of history - artifacts from the Titanic. More than 400,000 people lined up to see clothing and personal items that went down with the ship, along with a 20-ton chunk of the ocean liner's hull. Not to mention the ship's whistle.Well, it's coming back....	20th November 2008
The Times	BEESLEY CLAIMS WAR COMPENSATION At the Defence of the Realm Losses Commission yesterday, Mr L. Beesley, described as a practitioner of Christian Science, claimed compensation in respect of the requisitioning by the War Office of rooms at Pembroke House, Oxford Street, in May 1917, ...	22nd January 1919
4RFV	PIONEER PRODUCTIONS BRINGS SCIENCE TO STORY OF TITANIC Independent producer Pioneer Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4, National Geographic Channel US and Discovery Canada to present the story of 'Titanic' from a new analytical perspective in a drama documentary....	21st August 2008
Belfast Telegraph	£50 TITANIC CHARGE: WHY IT'S NEEDED The people behind one of Northern Ireland's iconic Titanic attractions have insisted they will make the ship's centenary a success. The bosses at Northern Ireland Science Park have said they will build a Titanic legacy which the province can be proud of after facing stinging criticism for introducing a £50 fee for coaches to visit the Titanic's Dry Dock and Pumphouse....	28th March 2010
Regina Leader-Post	FROM THE WRECKAGE OF THE TITANIC Almost a century after the Titanic - at the time, the world's largest ship - sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives, the dramatic story continues to fascinate people around the world. Beginning Saturday, visitors to the Saskatchewan Science Centre will have an opportunity to journey back in time and take a poignant look at this iconic ship and its passengers....	30th September 2011
Denver Business Journal	TITANIC EXHIBIT COMING TO DENVER Dressed in its best artifacts, the exhibit "Titanic -- The Artifact Exhibition" will hit the Denver Museum of Nature and Science full throttle within the next month or so. On April 10 -- the 92nd anniversary of when the Titanic left port -- the museum will make an official announcement of when the exhibit will arrive here and how long it will stay....	30th March 2007
Examiner.com	TITANIC ARTIFACTS ON VIEW IN ROCHESTER MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER BEGINNING OCTOBER 1 Almost a century ago on a calm April night in 1912 the "unsinkable" Titantic went down after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 of the 2280 passengers on board the maiden voyage of the world's largest ship perished that night including business tycoons, artists and film stars, government dignitaries and immigrants dreaming of a new life in America.....
yesweekly.com	STORIES FROM THE TITANIC Imagine, as I am now, that my name is Mr. Wallace Henry Hartley, 33, of Dewsbury, England, a violinist and bandleader. The year is 1912, and a couple days earlier I was chosen to lead the band on the brand new showpiece of the White Star cruise line: the RMS Titanic. Hartley is the name on my boarding pass, handed to me at the entrance to the new Titanic exhibition at the Greensboro Natural Science Center, which runs through Nov. 27 — everybody gets one, embossed with an actual name of one of the 1,316 passengers on board for the vessel’s maiden voyage....	3rd August 2011
Realscreen.com	JAMES CAMERON TEAMING WITH NAT GEO FOR TITANIC DOC Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron will bring together the director with some of the world’s leading Titanic experts for what the network is calling “the ultimate forensic investigation into the science behind what sank the unsinkable ship on her maiden voyage.” The experts will also examine Cameron’s feature film take on the event, and bring to the fore what technology has revealed about the shipwreck since 1997....	7th December 2011
Portsmouth Herald News	TITANIC SITE SCUBA DIVER VISITS BERWICK ACADEMY World-renowned diver John Chatterton has been involved in many high-profile shipwrecks, but it was his work diving at the site of the Titanic that brought him to Berwick Academy.On Thursday morning, sixth-graders in Susan Morris' science class could not stop asking questions of Chatterton as he recounted his adventures diving for the famous ship....	11th December 2007
The Tribune	WITNESS NIGHT OF THE TITANIC Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the Titanic a ship widely heralded as 'unsinkable' struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Over the course of the next few hours, a great tragedy unfolded as weather, ice, the sun and human error all contributed to the sinking of this unsinkable ship. In Night of the Titanic, now playing at the Burke Baker Planetarium, experience the Titanic's last day to discover what went wrong, and examine the changes in Arctic ice patterns that may help scientists prepare for the future....	7th April 2008
Orlando Sentinel	TITANIC TO SAIL TO NEW I-DRIVE LOCALE The Titanic exhibit that sailed into Central Florida almost a decade ago is headed back to International Drive, with plans for a $2 million investment to modernize and expand the attraction.Titanic -- The Experience, which introduces visitors to the world of the ill-fated ocean liner, will end its temporary run in the Orlando Science Center on Oct. 12. It will move to a 20,000-square-foot location at 7324 International Drive, a mile north of the now-demolished Mercado shopping-and-dining complex where the attraction had spent the first eight years of its existence....	11th September 2008
Titanic Commutator	FATE DEALS A HAND [EXCERPT] George Behe Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1982 Deeply engrossed in their own conversation, three men sat in nearby easy- chairs. One was Charles C. Jones, the superintendent of an estate in Vermont, while A. H. Barkworth was an English Justice of th...	1982
gigcity.ca	A BOATLOAD OF UNHAPPY MEMORIES IN TITANIC EXHIBIT There’s no other way to describe it: it’s a Titanic show. Telus World of Science will feed the public’s continuing morbid fascination with the world’s most famous ocean liner disaster, beginning Oct. 8, when Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition begins a limited engagement. It’s a touring show of 200 items from the legendary shipwreck. Titanic — which its engineer had bragged was unsinkable — struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. More than 1,500 people died, notably due to an absence of adequate life rafts. That unsinkable confidence, it turns out, really was a downer....	8th September 2011
thisislancashire.co.uk	BLUE PLAQUE TRIBUTE TO CHORLEY'S HIGH-RANKING TITANIC SURVIVOR A BLUE PLAQUE has been unveiled on the gates of a high school to commemorate Lancashire man who was the highest-ranking survivor of the Titanic disaster. Charles Lightoller, the son of mill owners, grew up at Yarrow House, Chorley on the site later occupied Albany Science College . He was 38 at the time of the ship’s maiden voyage and was Second Officer. On the night of April 14, 1912, he commanded the last bridge watch before the ship’s collision with an iceberg. ...	14th September 2011
	WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC Returned Hartley's body in Great Britain...	1915
New York Times	MANILA HONORS BUTT Cathedral Dedicated to Titanic Hero and to Dr. Freer --- MANILA, May 1---The Rt. Rev. C. H. Brent, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Philippines, to-day dedicated memorial windows in the American Cathedral here to Major Archibald W. Bu...	11th May 1914
	THE BLUE PLAQUE Blue Plaque on his old House...
Christian Science Sentinel	TESTIMONIES FROM THE FIELD It is difficult to tell from the experience which follows, but the student of the Christian Science will readily see in it that acceptance of the truth made the overcoming of fear possible, even as in the case if disease, and that divine Princi...	October 1912
The Times	BEESLEY THE SCIENCE TEACHER ON SOLAR PANELS "Cookery by Sunlight" To the Editor of the Times Sir - Your leading article on this subject in to-day's issue reminds me that in 1913 I was the guest of friends in Pasadena, California, whose house was fitted with an apparatus f...	26th January 1922
Evening Bulletin	MRS. A. H. RICE DIES IN PARIS AT 69 Wife of Explorer and Surgeon Was Widow of G. D. Widener --- Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, the former Eleanor Elkins, of this city, died suddenly yesterday at her home in Paris. She was 69. Mrs. Rice's first husband was G...	14th July 1937
Progress	PORT SUNLIGHT Progress : the Journal of Lever Brothers Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Tit...	July 1912
Progress - the Journal of Lever Brothers	PORT SUNLIGHT DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY ASSOCIATED Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Titanic heir of all the ages of constructive ...	July 1912
MinnPost	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 topic raises questions about the historical accuracy of the 1997 hit movie that catapulted the disaster into the realm of popular culture. ...	14th June 2009
MSNBC	SCIENTISTS STUDY 3D PHOTO MAP OF THE TITANIC WRECK SITE Alan Boyle Experts are still analyzing their newly made 3-D maps of the Titanic shipwreck site, but they can already see that the great ship’s breakup was messier than most folks, including "Titanic" film director James Cameron, may have thought. “...	24th September 2010
	TITANIC'S UNKNOWN CHILD Sandi Krawchenko Altner A small pair of brown shoes have provided the determining factor in deciding the true identity of Titanic's Unknown child. ...	28th April 2011
New York Times	MARCONI CHEERED FOR WIRELESS FEATS Modestly Gives Credit to Other Inventors and Speaks of Life Saving from Titanic --- FIRST LECTURE IN AMERICA --- Prof. Pupin Childes Speaker for Praising Other Inventors for Discoveries That Were Only by Marconi ...	18th April 1912
Titanic Research	LAWRENCE BEESLEY AND MACPHAIRSON CLONGLOCKETTY ANGUS Pat Cook A progress report on the long awaited Annotated Beesley....	27th January 2001
The Times	A VICTIM OF THE TITANIC. MEMORIALS OF HENRY FORBES JULIAN. By HESTER JULIAN (Griffin & Co. 6s. net.) There is no way of summing up the total loss to the nation and to the world of such a disaster as the wreck of the Titanic. The mere tale of the number...	19th June 1914
New York Times	P. A. B. WIDENER HOME; SUBPOENAED AT PIER His Famous $500,000 Van Dykes Sent on Six Weeks Ago to Lynwood Hall --- SERVED IN TRACTION SUIT --- Dr. Holland Decorated by Kaiser and Fallieres for Gifts of Carnegie Casts of Diplodocus --- Afte...	10th July 1908
Titanic Research	THE FINAL IDENTIFICATION OF THE 'UNKNOWN CHILD' Alan Ruffman The Final Identification of the ‘Unknown Child’ of the TITANIC buried as Body No. 4 on May 4, 1912 in the Fairview Lawn Cemetery of Halifax, Nova Scotia...	9th September 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