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Titanic the Experience: Wreck site expert to speak Sunday
Titanic the Experience has a limited number of seats left for its "Titanic 101" sessions with P.H. Nargeolet on Sunday afternoon. The International Drive attraction will be home to informational sessions marking the 101st anniversary of the singing of...
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Titanic: For many victims, their final resting place is in Halifax, Canada
Halifax, Canada — A cold wind ripped through Fairview Lawn Cemetery. Then came the frigid rain. In a minute, I was thinking, the headstones will be shivering. "Now," said Blair Beed, my guide, "imagine how it would have been in those lifeboats....
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Leonardo DiCaprio, Halliburton Company, Lifestyle and Leisure, Arts and Culture
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Why are we still so fascinated with the Titanic?
HALIFAX, Canada — Simple, says the gravedigger. It's about the movie. No, says the academic. It's about the money. Absolutely not, says the model-ship builder. It's about people. This is what happens when you ask why the sinking of the Titanic...
Tags: Arts and Culture, World War I (1914-1918), James Cameron, Woodlawn (Bronx, New York), Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Titanic violin found: Instrument recovered in attic bears message
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThe violin of the Titanic bandleader, who played as he and bandmates went down with the ship, has been recovered, ...... -
Titanic II blueprints unveiled, but don't call it "unsinkable"
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Australian mining entrepreneur Clive Palmer on Tuesday unveiled blueprints for Titanic II, a modern replica of the doomed ocean liner, although he stopped short of calling the vessel unsinkable. The ship will largely recreate the...
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Unsinkable ship, unthinkable disaster
Who was on board and who survived?
That's what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line's famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank 100 years ago Sunday in the North Atlantic Ocean. News of the ocean liner's peril was...Tags: Chicago, Atlantic Ocean
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Caldecott, Newbery Medals awarded by American Library Assn.
The American Library Assn. announced its 2013 book award winners Monday at its annual national conference, held this year in Seattle. While the best-known awards are the John Newbery Medal and the Caledecott Medal, there are dozens of awards, each of...
Tags: Scholastic Inc., Explosions, Family, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Book
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Jewels of Titanic on display at International Drive attraction
Jewelry that went down with Titanic and stayed on the floor of the ocean for 75 years is on display for a limited time at Titanic: The Experience on International Drive. More than a dozen items are on exhibit through March 12, including diamond rings,...
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April: Teacher of the Year, The Aegis honored
The title of Teacher of the Year for Harford County was given to Christina O'Neill, Bel Air Middle School language arts teacher. O'Neill was chosen from the more than 3,200 teachers in the county. Election Day for the Harford County presidential primary...Tags: Churchill Downs, Crimes, Harford Community College, Easter, Teaching and Learning
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Album review: Bob Dylan rides this 'Tempest'
Bob Dylan "Tempest" Columbia; 3 stars Not to be morbid, but every time I take a day off or leave for vacation, I say a little prayer for the health of Bob Dylan. So large is his presence on generations of American music fans that when his heart...Tags: Music Theater, Music, Bob Dylan, Mark Twain, John Lennon
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Liner tragedy worse than Titanic
This month the world marked the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. As tragic as the loss of the most famous cruise in history was, however, there was another cruise liner whose story was even more horrific. The Cap Arcona, named for a cape in...Tags: Berlin (Germany), Joseph Goebbels, World War II (1939-1945), United Kingdom, Nazi Party
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Remembering big loss of 'humanity'
The centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic was in April (the topic of two recent columns). But we also just marked another important date in the history of transportation. It was 75 years ago this month that the airship Hindenberg burst into...Tags: Pompano Beach, Nazi Party, Abraham Lincoln, Germany, Air Transportation Industry
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