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To: the OlLine Rebel

“hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic and became a legend”

1. Inattention
2. Big ice cube
3. Big hole
4. Lots of dead people

What else needs knowing?


7 posted on 03/09/2012 7:35:04 AM PST by jagusafr ("Write in Palin and prepare for war...")
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To: jagusafr

Fenway Park opened.


8 posted on 03/09/2012 7:37:23 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: jagusafr

There were also reports of sub-standard brittle Rivits and brittle steel that was used in the construction of White Star Lines RMS Titanic.


14 posted on 03/09/2012 8:12:27 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: jagusafr
What else needs knowing

There is a theory that she was on fire and that's why she was running flat out for port. If evidence of burning is found it would tend to support this theory. There is also some speculation that she had substandard coal due to a coal strike.

15 posted on 03/09/2012 8:19:39 AM PST by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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