23, 1915, without any of the fanfare the Titanic enjoyed. Less than a year later, HMHS Britannic struck a mine and began sinking at the bow. In just 55 minutes, faster than the sinking of the Titanic, the Britannic sank in the Mediterranean. Of the more than 1,000 people onboard, ...
23, 1915, without any of the fanfare the Titanic enjoyed. Less than a year later, HMHS Britannic struck a mine and began sinking at the bow. In just 55 minutes, faster than the sinking of the Titanic, the Britannic sank in the Mediterranean. Of the more than 1,000 people onboard, ...
The Olympic class included the Olympic, the Britannic and the Titanic, What you may not know is that the Titanic wasn’t even the flagship of this class. All in all, the Olympic class ships were marvels of sea engineering, but they seemed cursed to suffer disastrous fates. The Olympic ...
while today the general perception of Washington is of regal bearing and the picture of a powerful, confident, dignified leader, Maclay claims Washington was anything but during his inauguration speech, noting, “this great man was agitated and embarrassed more than ever he ...
of her son. That included her step-son Britannicus. And it included her husband, the fourth Roman emperor, Claudius, poisoned with a dish of mushrooms. After which her own son, the 16-year-old Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, was hailed as his successor on the steps of ...
as the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude, and from the point of such intersection due west along and with the said parallel, shall be the line of demarcation between the Territories of His Britannic Majesty and those of the United States,...
Stories abound describing arsenic's deadly use. For example, in biomedical historian James C. Whorton's book "The Arsenic Century" (Oxford University Press, 2010), Whorton recounted the legend of Roman emperor Nero ridding himself of his 13-year-old stepbrother and potential rival Britannicus by...
And that is just what I did! I used a super simple method that just about anyone can do to turn it into a fun Summer sign: I knew I could whip it up in a few minutes if I used mysilhouette, but since not everyone has access to a fancy cutting machine, I went old school this...
The Tudors, the Stuarts, and now the Windsors. It's a family name that has old and ancient roots... isn't it? The Windsor name was announcedon July 18, 1917. Since Queen Victoria, the family had been "of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha," which is about as German-sounding as you could pos...
fraught, as few students are drawn to the dwindling trade. “Anyone with any talent in metalworking is snapped up,” he says. TaylorHood employs the man who taught the founders and who now teaches their young apprentices: “A lot of the old ways are still relevant on the floor,” Taylor...