It would be another 100 years before the world’s first navigable submarine was built by Dutch engineer Cornelis Jacobzoon Drebbel, court inventor to King James I of England. Constructed in the manner of two wooden rowboats joined together and covered in leather to make it watertight, Drebbel’...
Before escaping herself, Brown helped other passengers into lifeboats and even begged the crew member in charge of her lifeboat to return to the ship for more passengers, but he refused. Were Women or Men More Likely to Survive? The survival rate for female passengers was significantly higher ...
On March 31, 1940, Leona Hutton overdosed on painkillers and died in the hospital 13 hours later. Her death was ruled a suicide. Age: Dec. at 56 (1892-1949) Birthplace: USA, Saint Joseph, Missouri Credits: The Man Who Would Not Die, The Secret of the Submarine, The Typhoon, The Typ...
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Years in Service: 3 My father, Leo Levien, was assigned to the USS Iowa after completing his training as a radioman. He wanted to serve in the Pacific where his triplet brothers, all Navy men, were serving and joined the ship at the Brooklyn Naval Yard in 1943. He traveled every mile...
阅读理解: The Red Cross is an international organization which cares for people who are in need of help.A man in a Paris hospital who needs blood, a woman in Mexico who was injured in an earthquake, and a family in India that lost their home in a storm
In the case of this biography, of a woman who was one of the dozen nurses evacuated by submarine from Corregidor before it surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, more copies are in existence; a naval commemorative group did several editions, which were widely distributed. Army nurse Lucy Wilson...
Among the entertainers who died this year was groundbreaking actor Sidney Poitier, who played roles with such dignity that it helped change the way Black people are portrayed on screen. Poitier, who died in January, became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for ...