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A Titanic immersion: Museum-goers will feel the cold, hear the engines whir
Friday 10th October 2008 5:11 PM
Trading Markets
Tom Zaller peered out the tiny porthole into the looming darkness two miles below the ocean's surface and saw an object in the massive debris field filled with items both heartbreaking and utilitarian from the Titanic. There was no mistaking what he saw: a toilet. Sitting upright, still with its handle and part of the seat.
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Troubling new evidence leads local author to rewrite Titanic's final chapter
Friday 10th October 2008 5:09 PM
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Somebody had better call James Cameron and tell him his movie needs to be revised. The big finish in "Titanic" -- in which characters Rose and Jack cling to the stern of the ship before it slips into the sea -- is wrong. The 1997 film depicted the prevailing theory at the time to explain Titanic's sinking. After striking an iceberg, the ship sank bow-first, the stern bobbing up at a 45-degree angle and the ship breaking in half under the pressure.
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Aboard the Titanic
Friday 10th October 2008 5:03 PM
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Twenty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. Colder than freezing. Colder than an iceberg. That was the temperature of the ocean on the night of April 14, 1912, when the "unsinkable" British steamer Titanic struck an iceberg and sank. Of the more than 2,200 passengers aboard, 1,500 died in water made colder than ice by the ocean's salt level.
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"Titanic" is a fascinating, emotional journey
Thursday 9th October 2008 2:26 PM
OnMilwaukee.com
It was nearly a century ago now that the RMS Titanic, the world's largest and most luxurious vessel, sank during her maiden voyage after colliding with a North Atlantic iceberg. Most of us are familiar, if not fascinated, with this historic tragedy and the real objects and real stories presented in the Milwaukee Public Museum's "Titanic -- The Artifact Exhibition," opening Friday, Oct. 10 and running through May 25, 2009, bring us even closer to the fateful events of April 14 and 15, 1912.
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Possessions of Titanic lifesaver
Thursday 9th October 2008 2:25 PM
The Sun
THIS is the first picture of Titanic hero Edmund Stone — and the possessions recovered from his body. Steward Edmund, 33, used the master key to enter first-class cabins and alert sleeping passengers as the ship began to sink.
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It's return of Titanic
Thursday 9th October 2008 2:21 PM
The Sun
A REPLICA of sunk liner Titanic is to be built in its home port as a tourist attraction. Southampton council hopes to finish the £15million project in time for the 100th anniversary of the disaster in April 2012.
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Titanic exhibition opens in Milwaukee Friday
Tuesday 7th October 2008 2:56 PM
Chicago Tribune
Items from the ill-fated Titanic sail into the Milwaukee Public Museum this Friday. "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" tells the story of the hundreds of people aboard through authentic artifacts and room recreations.
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"Titanic' expert to reveal artifacts from sunken ship
Tuesday 7th October 2008 2:39 PM
State-Journal.com
When Frankfort's Titanic authority Roland Herzel travels across the ocean and a storm hits, his mind immediately goes to the night that ill-fated ship sank. "There was no moon. There were no waves to allow them to see the iceberg," that night in 1912, Herzel says. The captain, overconfident in his impeccable sailing record, failed to ask for help right away.
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Titanic's Last Secrets
Monday 6th October 2008 10:13 PM
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
No ship in history has the notoriety of the Titanic. There are more than 130 books inspired by the doomed liner. Google supplies 3.5 million references. More than a dozen motion pictures are devoted to the disaster, and the last one, James Cameron's 1997 award-winning "Titanic," no doubt has shaped many people's opinions about what happened the night of April 14, 1912.
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Titanic news: Latest book and the first reporter to talk to survivors
Monday 6th October 2008 9:50 PM
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Above is a publishers’ video about the book “Titanic’s Last Secrets,” reviewed Oct. 5 by W.E. Mueller. This is the latest exploration about how the Titanic sank (and according to this book, James Cameron’s famous movie has it wrong).
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