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In compliance with the law of the sea, women and children boarded the boats first; only when there were no women or children nearby were men permitted to board. Yet many of the victims were in fact women and children, the result of disorderly procedures that failed to get them to the ...
When it became apparent that few male passengers on the Titanic could be allowed to board the limited lifeboats, Mrs Strauss refused to leave her husband, even though to stay with him meant certain death. She was overheard to say: “We have lived together for many years. Where you go, I...
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years, the National Post has covered many of the lesser-known aspects of the disaster, such as how the ship’s chief baker survived by getting severely inebriated, and how, for days after the sinking fellow ocean liners had to pass through seascapes of the Titanic’s floating victims. Thi...
Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask. Rome, Italy Keats-Shelley Memorial House Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end. Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Titanic Museum Attraction A recreation of the doomed ocean ...
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Sudden immersion into freezing water typically causes death within minutes, either from cardiac arrest, uncontrollable breathing of water, or cold incapacitation (not, as commonly believed, from hypothermia); almost all of those in the water died of cardiac arrest or other bodily reactions to freez...