[re_nortex]

With the 100th Anniversary approaching, would there be any interest in a Titanic ping list?

There are a number of highly intelligent posters here on Free Republic interested in all aspects of RMS Titanic: the history, the legends, the myths (NOPOPE), the people (Captain Stanley Lord), the books and the films.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I loved the Titanic. I got all into it as a child - and within 3 years, it was found. I built/painted a whole model, as well as read everything I could in middle school. I even did a whole long Titanic presentation as a 14yo to my mother’s special-ed emotionally disturbed high school classes (she was in charge of that school, not just teacher). All a year or so prior to the finding.

[Vigilanteman]

I definitely would be interested in such a list. As mentioned in my post #2, I read the entire congressional transcript on the hearings. I've also made it a point to see earlier Hollywood renditions of the Titanic, all of which were far more historically accurate than the late 1990s version.

I'm deeply disturbed by the media cabal's ongoing efforts to erase as much of our religious heritage as possible from accounts of our historical events unless, that is, if it conforms to their anti-religion agenda.

Even the remake of True Grit deleted the hymn singing from the public hanging near the beginning of the film even though it is documented fact from the history of Judge Parker's famous gallows at Ft. Smith.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

If you ever want to hear a spooky, emotional piece of music, check out "The Sinking of the Titanic" by Gavin Bryars. He takes the idea that sound will travel through water indefinitely and combines it with the music the band was playing as they sank beneath the waves. It's a symphonic piece, recorded in a giant empty water tank to give it a metallic, echo-y sound.

Youtube: The Sinking of the Titanic

Same composer also did a great piece where he took a snippet of a British homeless man singing a couple of lines of the hymn "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet," loops it, and then builds an entire symphonic accompaniment around it.

[kalee]

Yes, I would. I have always been interested in the Titanic, my grandmother was born the day the Titanic sank.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Well, I hope you will start it because apparently FR says DeoVind (OP) is banned!

[stylecouncilor]

With the 100th Anniversary approaching, would there be any interest in a Titanic ping list?

Yes! If you start one, please add me. :)

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Seeing you ave very interested in the Titanic, I wonder if you have ever read The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters? It was originally printed in 1912 right after the sinking and is very good.

Here's an amazon link if you don't have it.

http://www.amazon.com/Sinking-Titanic-Great-Sea-Disasters/dp/096652330X

Btw, if you are making a Titanic ping list I would like to be on it......

[MinuteGal]

"Would there be any interest in a Titanic ping list? There are a number of highly intelligent posters here on Free Republic interested in all aspects of RMS Titanic: the history, the legends....."

Since I fit right into this category of posters, LOL, I'd be highly interested in being added to such a ping list if one is initiated.

Leni ("Bahama Mama")
(Organizer of three Freeper fundraising cruises to the Caribbean)

[nutmeg]

With the 100th Anniversary approaching, would there be any interest in a Titanic ping list?

Yes, I'd be interested. Are you running the Titanic ping list? If so, please add me. :-)

My mother and grandparents always told the story of "two Irish relatives" of ours who were in the steerage (lowest class) section of the Titanic, and went down with the ship (two young men). Unfortunately we never learned their names, so I can't prove who they were. Anyway, relatives or not, I've always had an interest in the RMS Titanic.

My husband and I happened to be in Nova Scotia in the summer of 1998 and visited the Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, N.S., the final resting place of many victims of the sinking of the Titanic. One of the graves was marked "J. Dawson". There were mountains of flowers, stuffed animals, movie ticket stubs, etc. on top of this grave, which is actually the grave of Joseph Dawson, an Irishman who worked in the Titanic's boiler room.

Several sobbing teenage girls were standing over the grave, absolutely convinced that the grave belonged to Jack Dawson, the fictitious character in the 1997 movie played by Leonardo DiCaprio. My husband and I couldn't stop laughing - the girls' mother looked pretty sheepish, LOL.