Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThe wreck of the Titanic—which was discovered on September 1, 1985—is located at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, some 13,000 feet (4,000 metres) underwater. It is approximately 400 nautical miles (740 km) from ...
The gadflies at the Motley Fool even began a contest to see who could come up with a raise-the-Titanic-style rescue plan for Priceline. (Sample suggestion: replace spokeswarbler William Shatner with Wayne Newton.) Everybody is piling onto the former billionaire and his busted business plan....
If our political culture is, as Thiel says, something like rearranging furniture on the Titanic, is the goal to “have dissident voices,” or to turn the ship around by whatever means possible? Whither, in all of this, religion? These questions and others were taken up most substantively in...
Has all the Atocha treasure been found? A second hurricane on October 5 further destroyed the wreck, and despite six decades of searching by Spanish salvagers,no trace of Atocha or its treasures would be found. the search for Atocha
And you really need to roll that around in your head. Back in 1912 when the Titanic was sinking, by and large the men aboard swiftly figured out that they were going to have to die if the women and children were going to live. Sure, there were a few cowards but if you, say, roll...
no matter what. And the big dark cloud hanging over us has a name: Recession. The good thing this time is that you have experience from the pandemic back in 2020. You can quickly draw conclusions about what you did and didn't do to ride out the horrible pandemic in the best possible...
I had a sense that for decades, everyone kind of expected a sudden, catastrophic loss of credibility at every significant moment – a single spectacular event, abrupt like the sinking of the Titanic. But on and on the ship of national corporate media went, seemingly undisturbed by any such ...
Millvina Dean never married. For many years after the sinking,she never spoke of it to people around her. But that changed after September 1, 1985 when the wreck(残骸)of the Titanic was discovered. Thatset offa wave of interest in the ship, especially after the movie Titanic.“They found...