https://freerepublic.com/tag/europeana/ en-us Sat, 14 Feb 2015 21:49:33 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3257589/posts The first-known footage of the Eastland disaster was found by Jeff Nichols, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, while he was looking for unrelated material about World War I, the Chicago Tribune reported. Nichols found the footage on Europeana’s 1914-1918 website. Nichols said he found the clips in Dutch newsreels. Title cards describing what happened precede them. "It's as easily recognizable to someone who cares about Chicago history as the Titanic, so I knew what I had right away," Nichols, who has lived in Chicago for 20 years, told the Chicago Tribune. "I knew folks would... abc https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3257589/posts#comment Sat, 14 Feb 2015 21:49:33 GMT