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The Titanic’s Last Secret
Monday 6th October 2008 8:38 PM
Newsweek
The Titanic sank into the North Atlantic 97 years ago. Since then, as Harvard historian Steven Biel quipped, "Only Jesus and the Civil War have been written about more." In close to 200 books, documentaries and movies—and the highest-grossing film of all time—historians, scientists and Titanic buffs have fervently debated what really caused the biggest passenger ship of her day to sink just two hours and 40 minutes after hitting an iceberg, carrying 1,522 people to their deaths.
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Revealing the Titanic's Secrets
Monday 6th October 2008 7:13 PM
TIME
In his book, Titanic's Last Secrets, Brad Matsen tells the story of wreck divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler and their search for the truth about the Titanic's sinking in 1912. More than just a tragic iceberg crash, the story the divers uncovered is one of bad management, shoddy construction and an ocean liner that sank so quickly that most passengers didn't know what was happening until it was too late. Chatterton and Kohler talk to TIME about deep sea diving, investigating shipwrecks, and the allure of the Titanic.
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The RMS Titanic
Monday 6th October 2008 7:07 PM
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Grab your boarding pass, it's time to embark on an exhilarating voyage aboard history's most notorious ocean liner. By now, the tragic events surrounding the Titanic's maiden voyage and catastrophic sinking, which left 1,523 people dead, are well-known. Countless books, expeditions and motion pictures have meticulosity analyzed, theorized and re-created every aspect of the "unsinkable" passenger liner that hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912.
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Builder completes Titanic matchstick model - 15 years after he started it
Tuesday 30th September 2008 10:33 PM
Daily Mail
Dedicated Tim Elkins has finally finished building a scale model of the Titanic made out of 147,000 matchsticks - 15 years after he started. Builder Tim, 42, has slaved away for 3,500 hours erecting the 1:115 scale of the famous liner at his home in Worthing, West Sussex.
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A boat in the evening at the Gaiety
Tuesday 30th September 2008 10:32 PM
Isle of Man Today
THE Manx Operatic Society is working on one of the most expensive and challenging productions of its 60-year history. Titanic the Musical will be hitting the stage of the Gaiety Theatre in March, complete with custom sets and computer graphics to make the audience feel as if they are really on board the ship.
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Six-foot Titanic model up for sale
Tuesday 30th September 2008 10:28 PM
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
It may be a lot smaller than its seafaring namesake but this model made of matchsticks is certainly a Titanic piece of art. And now the Norfolk-based charity Daisy International, which helps people in Romania, hopes the Titanic model will give a huge boost to its fund to buy much-needed medical equipment for a hospital in the country.
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Last dinner on the Titanic
Tuesday 30th September 2008 10:27 PM
Toronto Star
The year is 1912. As the Titanic steams toward its destiny – an iceberg 563 kilometres off the coast of Newfoundland – its first-class dining room glows with life. Distinguished guests descend the Grand Staircase into a room glittering with silver and crystal, anticipating another sumptuous meal served on 24-karat, gold-rimmed china.
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This Molly is still unsinkable
Tuesday 30th September 2008 10:26 PM
Tampabay.com
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.
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The Secret of How the Titanic Sank
Tuesday 30th September 2008 10:25 PM
U.S. News & World Report
For decades after the disaster, there was little doubt about what sank the Titanic. When the "unsinkable" ship, the largest, most luxurious ocean liner of its time, crashed into an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912, it took more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers to the bottom. As the ship slipped into the North Atlantic, so, too, did the secret of how and why it sank.
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Bullets recovered from Lusitania's "empty" hold
Saturday 27th September 2008 11:39 AM
Encyclopedia Titanica
by Senan Molony - RIFLE ammunition bound for the Western Front during World War One has been raised from the wreck of the doomed Cunard liner RMS Lusitania....