99th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic today

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And it seemed like it happened yesterday!

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1. If I could travel back in time I would stop it

just so James Cameron would not be able to make that awful movie which made him enough money to make that even more awful movie Avatar.

The 3D fad would be over and there would be at least two fewer stupid movies.

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2. My mother is already 99 (sitll going)

My dad would have been 99 next week (died in 1963)

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3. My grandparents and great-grandparents were supposed to be on it.

My Dad's relatives, in 3rd class, steerage.

Thanks to a bureacrat in Europe, they missed the boat.
Good thing too, most of those who died were 3rd-class.

My Mom still has the boarding pass.

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4. Legend of the U.S.S. Titanic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFYMjkFYPg
http://www.rkdn.org/titanic%20lyrics.htm

It was back around the turn of the centuries, back around nineteen hundred & thirteen there was a negro pugilist his name was Jack Johnson. Now old Jack Johnson he was the toughest man in the whole wide world he used walk around whoppin' people up side the head 'n makin' all sorts of money ...

Now he wouldn't let Jack Johnson on board
they said this ship don't haul no coal
Fare thee well Titanic,
fare thee well ...

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5. The Titanic is sunk, with great loss of life (Guardian 1912)

The Guardian
Tuesday 16 April 1912

... Late last night the White Star officials in New York announced that a message had been received stating that the Titanic sank at 2.20 yesterday morning after all her passengers and crew had been transferred to another vessel. Later they admitted that many lives had been lost. An unofficial message from Cape Race, Newfoundland, stated that only 675 have been saved out of 2,200 to 2,400 persons on board. This was in some degree confirmed later by White Star officials in Liverpool, who said they were afraid the report was likely to prove true. Assuming that only 675 of the passengers and crew have been saved, and taking the smallest estimate of the number of people on board, the disaster is one of the most awful in the history of navigation, for at least 1,500 lives have been lost.

The stories of the disaster are more than usually conflicting, and it is quite impossible to reconcile the bulk of the earlier and optimistic reports with the sinister news received after midnight. There is unfortunately only too much reason to believe, however, that the latest and worse news is nearest the truth, for none of the later cables contradict each other.

The main hope that remains is that the Virginian or Parisian may have picked up more of the passengers and crew than those saved by the Carpathia. As to this there is no news at the time of writing. A list of the first class passengers (who are reported from New York to have been all saved) appears on page 6.

White Star statement in New York, 9.35pm. Mr Franklin said, "I was confident to-day when I made the statement that the Titanic was unsinkable that the steamship was safe and that there would be no loss of life. The first definite news to the contrary came in the message this evening from Captain Haddock" ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/1912/apr/16/leadersandreply.mainsection

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6. Titanic in 5 seconds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXh4xf49hYk

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7. U.S. Coast Guard marks 99th anniversary of Titanic sinking

The Associated Press
Posted Apr 15, 2011 @ 02:56 PM
NEW LONDON, Conn. —

The U.S. Coast Guard has marked the 99th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic by dropping memorial wreaths near the British luxury liner's resting place in the North Atlantic ... It is an annual tradition for the New London-based Ice Patrol, which was created to monitor iceberg danger as a result of the Titanic's sinking ...

http://www.norwichbulletin.com/government/x1225325634/U-S-Coast-Guard-marks-99th-anniversary-of-Titanic-sinking

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8. Down with the Old Canoe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USxTunf3-tk

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9. When That Great Ship Went Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ulu8bnIBk

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11. The Wreck of the Titanic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAwa7xgiGMM

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12. The Sinking Of The Titanic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_zJKOwN008

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10. God Moves On the Water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG7ceBkco6g

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13. The Legend of the USS Titanic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFYMjkFYPg

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16. The Titanic

It was a midnight on the sea,
The band was playing, "Nearer my God to Thee,"
Fare thee, Titanic, Fare thee well!

Titanic when it got its load,
Captain, he hollered "all aboard!"
Fare thee, Titanic, Fare thee well!

Titanic was comin' 'round the curve,
when it run into that great big iceberg,
Fare thee, Titanic, fare thee well!

Titanic was sinkin' down,
Had them lifeboats around,
Fare thee, Titanic, fare thee well!

Had them lifeboats around
Savin' the women and children lettin' the men go down,
Fare thee, Titanic, fare thee well!

Jack Johnson want to get on board,
Captain he says, "I ain't haulin' no coal!"
Fare thee, Titanic, fare thee well!

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/leadbelly_titanic.html
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/media/audio/leadbelly_titanic.ram

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14. Songe d'Automne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g73kOrhAai4

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15. Has anyone ever since said "Not even God could sink this ship?"

Oh...really?

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