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To: NRx

Oo! Will check that out thank you! I was aware of RMS Mauritania, but not that one.

Those ships symbolize so much about that period: the British Empire at its peak, the turn of the 20th Century, science, industry, and man’s triumph over the nature and its elements...

And then the iceberg...

Then World War I...


2 posted on 03/30/2018 4:10:34 PM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
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To: GoldenState_Rose
Those ships symbolize so much about that period: the British Empire at its peak, the turn of the 20th Century, science, industry, and man’s triumph over the nature and its elements...

They made a lot of money selling drugs to the Chinese. Much of their wealth came from that.

3 posted on 03/30/2018 4:15:37 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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