A Night to Remember.....................
In 1912, the presidente of Mexico traveled to England as part of a friendship tour...While there, he had taste of a condiment that he truly loved....He loved it so much, he thought his people needed to try it...He then, as a starter, ordered 10,000 cases of this condiment to be shipped to the US and then hauled to Mexico...
The ship the condiment was transported on happened to be the Titanic and as we all know, it hit an iceberg and sank...
The presidente felt so bad his people would not get the condiment that he declared a holiday in its memory...
The sinking of all the mayonaise is how Sinko De Mayo began....
The band on the Titanic stayed at their posts, and played as the ship went down. Heroes all.
Ah, but they were not White Star employees. The liner had contracted with another company to provide the musicians. After the sinking, that company billed the musicians’ families for the cost of the unreturned band uniforms.
How’s that for heartless?
(Public outcry forced the music company to back down.)
Not enough lifeboats and many of those that were launched were not loaded to full capacity.
My Grandfather was one of the early Amateur Radio Operators who built His own Radios and Antenna and was always trying out different kinds and types of Antenna. I ran across a few of His drawings and notes a long time ago. There were also several letters from the other Radio Operators He had made contact with including RCA, CBS, NBC & G.E. along with some of His notes and one was about hearing an SOS from the Titanic. Grandfather contacted the authorities to pass on the information. Nobody would believe Him and they said that the Titanic was “unsinkable”...
I placed my hand on the Titanic once.
I own a piece of Titanic coal.
The 3 NY bankers that could have stopped the Federal Reserve from ever being created died on that voyage.
Ping
Fenway Park opened 3 days earlier!
Watched a new documentary on National Geographic last night. It’s titled: “Titanic: The Digital Resurrection.” Over two years they sent down two submersibles to take thousands of pictures of the wreck and the debris field, then pieced them all together for a life-size image of it all. It was pretty interesting. I would have liked to have seen more of the debris field, which they said is over a 15 mile area. From the debris field images, they were able to find outside parts of the ship, from both sides of the ship, and piece them together to find out where they had been on the ship before it went down.