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Titanic's shipbuilders tackled an olympic task
USA TODAY
The bows of Olympic, foreground, and Titanic take shape under construction scaffolding in the Belfast shipyard sometime between 1909 and 1911. The bows of Olympic, foreground, and Titanictake shape under construction scaffolding in the Belfast ...
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USA TODAY
Events around the world mark Titanic centenary
Boston.com
By Jill Lawless AP / April 14, 2012 LONDON—From Titanic'sbirthplace in a Belfast shipyard to its resting place in the North Atlantic, thousands were gathering Saturday to remember the cruise ship that embarked on its maiden voyage as an icon of ...
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Boston.com
Fascination with Titanic goes on, 100 years later
The Seattle Times
A century after the ship hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and three years after the death of the last Titanic survivor, the disaster feels as familiar as if it happened yesterday. By Joel Achenbach AP In this April 10, 1912, photo, theTitanic leaves ...
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Respect, remembrance mix with the macabre
CNN
By Chris Welch, CNN Patrick Druckenmiller, 9, received the trip aboard theTitanic anniversary cruise as a gift from his grandmother, Stephanie Hayes, right. Patrick is dressed as Titanic Capt. Edward John Smith. The cruise aboard the Azamara Journey ...
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Answers to Questions about the Titanic and New York
New York Times
The Lifeboats Made It Q. April 15 — this Sunday — is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. I have read that when the Carpathia picked up the survivors, it also picked up many of theTitanic's lifeboats. What happened to them?
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New York Times
“Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner” by John Maxtone-Graham
Washington Post
This month, much of the world will observe the centennial of the sinking of the great White Star ocean liner, the Titanic. So much has been written about this dreadful event, most notably Walter Lord's “A Night to Remember” (1955), that it is difficult ...
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Reliving the Titanic disaster
Buffalo News
By By Jean Westmoore Nine-year-old Frankie Goldsmith was put in a lifeboat and survived the sinking of the Titanic. Alfred Rush, who turned 16 on April 14, 1912, the very day the ship grazed the iceberg, refused a seat on a lifeboat, declaring "I am a ...
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Buffalo News
Titanic quiz: How much do you know about the doomed cruise?
Chicago Tribune
Friday the 13th seems to be a good day to write about the Titanic-- not just because we find the number 13 creepy but because the cruise was then underway, 100 years ago, with not a hint (at least, not to the passengers) of trouble in sight.
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100 years after the Titanic disaster
Baltimore Sun
By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun A century ago this April 15, Baltimoreans, like the rest of the world, had awakened that Monday morning to the news that the great White Star Liner RMSTitanic on its maiden voyage to New York had been in a ...
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Baltimore Sun
“TITANIC” Tonight at 8 and concluding tomorrow at 9 pm on WCVB (Ch. 5).: C+
Boston Herald
How do you top James Cameron's epic “Titanic,” the highest grossing film of all time and currently back in theaters in a 3-D edition? If you're “Downton Abbey” scribe Julian Fellowes, you send that ocean liner crashing into the iceberg not once but ...
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Titanic + 100: Our Fascination Continues
Patch.com
Richard D. Rabbett, a co-founder of the nonprofit SS United States Conservancy and a former board member of the Providence-based Steamship Historical Society of America, is one of a select few setting sail for the Titanic'sfinal resting place to ...
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Titanic centenary marked around the world
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Passengers in costumes pose for a group picture following a reception at the MS Balmoral Titanic memorial cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, on Friday, April 13, 2012. (AP Photo / Lefteris Pitarakis) Associated Press LONDON - From Titanic's birthplace ...
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Titanic: For many victims, their final resting place is in Halifax, Canada
Los Angeles Times
The J. Dawson at Halifax's Fairview Lawn Cemetry is not Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio's “Titanic” character is fictional) but Titanic boiler-room worker Joseph. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times, Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times / April 15, ...
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The Titanic Proves Its Worth
San Francisco Chronicle
April 15 will mark the 100 year anniversary of the tragic sinking of the Titanicafter it struck an iceberg and sank on its ill-fated journey in 1912. More than 1500 lives were lost, which amounted to over two thirds of the 2228 on board at the time of ...
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Interesting Titanic facts for kids
Washington Post
When the iceberg scraped the side of the Titanic, some ice chunks landed on the forward deck. Passengers playfully began tossing them at each other, and a game of ice football broke out. About the Titanic Size: The Titanic was almost three football ...
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Kids were onboard the Titanic, too
Washington Post
Steward on the RMS Titanic, April 14, 1912 It wasn't the loud scraping noise that woke 12-year-old Ruth Becker and her mother that freezing April night. It was the sudden silence. Like others aboard the grand new ocean liner RMSTitanic that moonless ...
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Titanic's sinking remembered worldwide
San Francisco Chronicle
Providence, RI -- Two Titanic survivors who became tennis pros are being honored at Rhode Island's International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum. On Cape Cod, a wreath will be laid for a radio operator who relayed Morse code messages as the ill-fated ...
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Titanic: 100 Years Later
Patch.com
By Philip R. Devlin RMS Titanic departing Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912. Wikipedia Commons public domain As midnight approached on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic was steaming confidently toward New York Harbor on its maiden voyage from ...
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Titanic allure to continue
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Ed Kamuda got the Titanic bug as a teenager in the 1950s, after seeing a Hollywood melodrama (“Titanic,” starring Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb) in his father's movie theater. He began writing to Titanic survivors, some of whom sent him artifacts ...
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Titanic's 'hallowed ground' and artifacts may get new protections
KWCH
By Richard Simon WASHINGTON -- On the 100 th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, lawmakers are moving to further protect the shipwreck site. The RMS Titanic Maritime Memorial Preservation Act would impose penalties of up to $250000 a day and ...
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What sank the Titanic?
Christian Science Monitor
By Randy Dotinga / April 13, 2012 Science teacher Lawrence Beesley later wrote about the last moments on the Titanic, listing scientific details that show insight into what caused the sinking of the ship. Did hubris doom the Titanic?
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Christian Science Monitor
Titanic business lesson: A blind belief in technology can put leadership ...
Boston.com
This May 31, 1911 photo made available by the Library of Congress, shows the hull of the SS Titanic. under construction in dry dock. April 15, 2012 is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, just five days after it left Southampton on its ...
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Boston.com
Titanic tale unsinkable as pop culture influence
CTV.ca
When the cold, murky waters of the North Atlantic claimed the lives of more than 1500 passengers on the Titanic on April 15, 1912, no one imagined that songs, books, IMAX movies and YouTube videos would be memorializing this tragedy well into the 21st ...
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CTV.ca
ABC's 'Titanic' can't stay afloat with so many stories to tell
Los Angeles Times
Julian Fellowes' overly stuffed script for the 'Titanic' miniseries makes one yearn for the sweeping simplicity of the James Cameron film. Julian Fellowes' "Titanic" miniseries revisits the disaster. (Laurence Cendrowicz / ABC) By Mary McNamara, ...
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Los Angeles Times
'Titanic,' a Mini-Series, Starts on Saturday on ABC
New York Times
There's no new way to sink the Titanic, not after so many books and movies and so much James Cameron. And it probably doesn't make sense to experiment with alternative endings, even if it is fun to imagine what might have happened if the ship had ...
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New York Times
Church joins Titanic remembrances
By By ENS staff
[Episcopal News Service] When people mark the 100th anniversary April 15 of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, Anglicans and Episcopalians will be among them. Memorial services are planned on both sides of the Atlantic to commemorate the ...
Episcopal News Service
On The Road: 100 Years Since Titanic Sank « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
By Kent
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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
Centennial reignites Titanic interest - NashuaTelegraph.com
By onlineeditor@nashuatelegraph.com (The Nashua Telegraph)
If the technology that allows humans to float safely through the RMS Titanic'smassive underwater.
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Special Titanic commemorative Morse transmission | Southgate ...
A special Titanic commemorative Morse transmission will take place from the German Weather Service at Pinneberg on 14 April 2230 UTC on 147.3 kHz.
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Titanic Survivor's Journal Depicts Helplessness - Baltimore ...
ABERDEEN, Md. -- The story of one of the 700 people who survived theTitanic's sinking a century ago lives on in Harford County. Friday, April 13, 2012.
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Titanic's legacy: A fascination with disasters ... - Bangor Daily News
By UnBylined
Epic disasters — the anguished cries, the stories of heroism — are the central narratives of our age, both enthralling and horrifying. And our obsession began a century ago, unfolding in just 160 terrifying minutes, on a supposedly unsinkable ...
Bangor Daily News
Weekend reading: The Titanic, the Pulitzers and Tucker Carlson ...
By Andrew Beaujon
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Poynter.
100 years later: diners honor Titanic victims with last meal | News ...
It's the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and people were commemorating the event in style. Welcome to April 1912. The people are dressed to the nines, the table is set and soon what many know as the final dinner on the Titanic ...
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Titanic survivors' descendants to recall disaster | BrainerdDispatch ...
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As a little boy, Tom Goldsmith followed his grandfather into his north-central Ohio den and begged him to tell him about theTitanic. His grandfather, Frank Goldsmith, was a 9-year-old traveling in third class when he ...
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Photos: RMS Titanic | FOX13Now.com – Salt Lake City, Utah News ...
By Meredith Forrest Kulwicki
Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The passenger cruise ship collided with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. The sinking of the Titanic caused the deaths ...
FOX13Now.com – Salt Lake City,...
The car that went down with the Titanic | Fox News
Over the years, hundreds of artifacts from the Titanic have been retrieved from the depths of the North Atlantic Ocean since the discovery of the wreck in 1985.
www.foxnews.com/leisure/.../car-that-went-down-with-titanic/
Unusual Titanic Stories: Kidnapping, Cross-Dressing ... - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: As a luxury liner, the RMS Titanic set sail with provisions suited to its first class clientele: 800 bundles of fresh asparagus, 36000 oranges, ...
news.yahoo.com/unusual-titanic-stories-kidnapping-cross-dres...
BBC News - Titanic: Faces of the crew
Seven hundred of the 912 crew on the Titanic died. Find out more about the people who worked on the ship by rolling over the images.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17669380
5 Real People in 'Titanic' Movie - ABC News
Leonardo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet played made-up people, but not all 'Titanic' characters were fictitious.
abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/real-people-titanic.../story?id...
Submersibles come of age on Titanic centenary | CTV News
CTV News Video
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'Titanic' Accuracy Tightened by Neil deGrasse Tyson : Discovery News
As James Cameron's "Titanic" gets re-released in 3D, only one significant change has been made to the movie -- astronomers will be impressed.
news.discovery.com/.../neil-degrasse-tyson-tightens-titanic-acc...
Titanic Would Encounter More Icebergs Today?
If Titanic had sailed a hundred years later, it may have encountered many more icebergs, possibly due to global warming, scientists say.
news.nationalgeographic.com/.../120403-titanic-100-anniversa...
Titanic memorial cruise traces doomed ship's path - World - CBC News
The Titanic Memorial Cruise departed from the southern coast of England on April 8 to follow the original route of the famous ocean liner, pausing at the exact ...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/.../f-titanic-memorial-cruise.html
100 years later, Titanic's allure still strong - CNN.com
A woman buys a souvenir print of the Titanic shortly after the disaster. HIDE CAPTION. Titanic's maiden voyage. Titanic survivors. Titanic news. Titanic news ...
www.cnn.com/2012/04/06/travel/titanic-cruise.../index.html
Star excited by Titanic site gig - National News, Breaking News ...
Sean Paul will perform at MTV's Titanic Sounds festival on Friday
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