Posted on 04/15/2019 4:00:05 PM PDT by NRx
At 12:27 This Morning Blurred Signals By Wireless Told of Women and Children Being Put Off in Lifeboats- Three Liners Rushing to Aid of 1300 Imperiled Passengers and Crew of 860 Men.
MANY NOTED PERSONS ONBOARD- First News of Ocean Disaster Came in Appeals for Help to Allan Line's Virginian, which Left Halifax on Saturday and Was 170 Miles from Place of Accident When the Last Call for Aid Came
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And it's income tax day.
And Notre Dame Cathedral burned up.
On the bright side, Fenway Park opened up in Boston this week in 1912. Appropriately, the news of the opening of what is now the oldest park in MLB was driven from the front pages by the news of the sinking of the Titanic.
I know it’s Trump’s fault, I won’t even bother watching CNN to find out why.
Trump conspired with the iceberg. Oh, and the Russians, too.
The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot.
STEER RIGHT!!!!
NO, LEFT!!!!!
REVERSE!!!!
Too late!
Something happened to some ship.
And I thought the ides of March were bad.
Beware the ides of April...
William Taft was just trying to get something off the front pages at home.
It was thought March was the cruelest.
“Beware the Ides of March.
So now we (US) have 4 cruel months?
March
April
September
December
There is an excellent 1958 movie about the sinking, A Night to Remember. And a book, same title, by Walter Lord..
Shouldn’t this be in BREAKING NEWS???
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It worked!!
I just would NOT feel safe knowing I was depending on some kids with goggles to make sure we didn’t hit an iceberg the size of Staten Island that would send me and mine to a watery grave.
But that’s just me.
Well, the Ides of March is just one day, not the whole month.
September is only cruel if she gives you bad news when she comes back from summer vacation. SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER - THE HAPPENINGS
Not sure what's so bad about December. I guess Aqualung didn't like it's "foggy freeze," and that it's a pretty dry time for watching "pretty panties run." Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Gordon Lightfoot didn't have too much positive to say about November: "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot.
Unfortunately that weasel JP Morgan called in sick, so he did not go down with the Titanic.
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