The Titanic was described in the popular press as "practically unsinkable". This was not unusual ? for decades, ships had watertight compartments to limit flooding in case of an accident, and the press used this phrase as a matter of routine for many years. After the Titanic sank, the story of her loss was turned into a modern fable and the original description "practically unsinkable" became just "unsinkable" in order to sharpen the moral of the story.

You have to realize the time period in which Titanic was built. The gilded age was an era when new and wondrous things were happening every day. The Titanic's shear size gave an impression of invulnerability. Most people don't realize it, but the White Star line never actually claimed Titanic was unsinkable. This line was made popular by the press of the time, and maybe a few over-zealous shipyard workmen.

A - No. It appears that no one from the White Star Line actually stated this officially. The press of 1912 reported the following after the disaster "...and they said she was unsinkable. Who was "they?" The nautical magazine Shipbuilder, while publishing articles about the engineering feats accomplished in building Titanic, wrote "With Titanic's transverse bulkheads and watertight doors, it renders this vessel practically unsinkable.

The inspiration behind it was ... It's difficult always to trace those lines because so many things tend to coalesce, and in fact it ended up being quite similar to a book called Anthem by the writer Ayn Rand. But I didn't realize that while I was working on it, and then eventually as the story came together, the parallels became obvious to me and I thought, 'Oh gee, I don't want to be a plagiarist here.' So I did give credit to her writings in the liner notes.

By a dream. This furry creature once came into my dream and experienced its adventure directly ahead of my closed eyes. It was a lot of dramatic and the main hero called Asheron has interesting nature. He was an orphan without friends, so he thought differently than others. That's why I was interesting by him and then I decided to save his story. (And it's a true he was far too much cute ^^!)

My major inspiration, ironically, was Guy Noir, a radio noir detective creation of Garrison Keillor's. (It's ironic because the story ended up being almost completely empty of noir features.) I thought, Wouldn't it be sweet to cast Fangtooth as a gumshoe? That set the stage for the story's setting (see below).

RMS" means "Royal Mail Ship". (Some say "steamer.") This title shows that the Titanic had a charter from the British government to carry British (i.e., the royal) Mail. Occasionally the prefix HMS (His Majesty's Ship) is seen in print, but that usage is incorrect since H.M.S. is reserved for British war ships. The names "Olympic", "Titanic", and "Gigantic" come from Greek mythology. The ancient Greeks believed that the universe created the gods, not the other way around.

The story of the ship is and many of the characters were really on board. However, the love story is completely fictional.

The keel for Titanic was laid in March 1909, and her hull was launched May, 1911. She was then towed to a fitting out basin where her interiors were installed. She was completed in Feb 1912. So it basically took 3 years to build the Titanic.

The name comes from the founders of the company, widows and widowers, who found one another in chat rooms on America Online. See also our History page.

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Pretty darn well! After receiving 14 nominations, "Titanic" won 11 tying "Ben Hur" (1959) for the most Oscars for a single film. The winners are: It's kind of hard for us to remember that this euphoria and this success is for a film that's based on a real event that happened, where real people died, that shocked the world in 1912. I'd just like everybody to go with me for just a second.

He is constantly reading - (magazines, newspapers and journals) (Science, Discovery, Scientific American, anything with a good science section) quot;These ideas really come from anywhere, newspapers, magazines, journals, the scary things rattling around inside my and my writing staff's heads." He came up with the idea for an episode called DPO about a kid who could control lightning from hearing a song called Ring the Bells by James. (He doesn't like the one on their album.

I draw whatever interests me at any given moment. I like to focus on sweet designs that will bring a smile to children and adults, alike. My pictures are never vulgar or offensive. Some of the pictures that appear on our clothing and gift items actually come from my storytelling performances, where I've sometimes included stories using pictures and props that I've created by cutting up tiny pieces of colored felt and gluing them together to create characters and animals and various objects.

Under admiralty law, the owner of a ship retains rights to its wreck, unless the owner abandons it or an unusually long period of time has passed since the vessel sank. In those situations (as was the case with the Titanic) an admiralty court can name another party "salvor in possession" of the wreck if that party lays claim to it by recovering objects from the site. To maintain its exclusive rights to the wreck, the salvor-in-possession must continue to actively work the wreck site.

Let's talk about the genesis of such an incredible story. From the early conception, we wanted to keep a strong link with the Sands of Time?, as the Prince will still be able to use the Powers of Time. We worked with talented Hollywood script writers to define a set of strong emotions. And with their help, we came to a game that will feel like a thriller, generating a certain sense of fear and oppression but still with a lot of action.

Because Clicker Training is based on Operant Conditioning (OC) theory, we try to use terminology very precisely. Unfortunately, some OC terms have rather different meanings in the theory than they use in ordinary life. For example, "positive" in OC means "added or given", while in common terms it means "something good". "Punishment" in OC means "something that makes a behavior decrease" while in common terms it means "something painful or uncomfortable".

The Mersy Inquiry determined that there were 1,316 passsengers on board: 325 in first-class, 285 in second, and 706 in third-class. At the time of the sinking, the Ship's crew consisted of 885 men and women divided between three departments: Deck Department, 66; Engine Department, 325; Victualling (Passenger Care) Department, 494. Not included in this list are the eight members of the Ship's band who were technically from another company and traveled under second-class tickets.

White Star publicly announced their intention of building the Titanic in 1907 during the maiden voyage of RMS Lusitania, owned by their archrival the Cunard Line. This was done in an attempt to get some of the publicity being lavished on the Cunarder and draw attention to the new, larger Titanic, to follow five years later.

The White Star Line decided to build three identical ships, called "sister ships" from the one set of plans that Harland and Wolff was preparing. These ships were later given the names "Olympic", "Titanic", and "Britannic". It was common for steamship companies to build several ships from the same plans. A great deal of money could be saved this way since engineers only had to draw up one set of blueprints for the whole series of ships.

While the general concensus as to why Titanic sank is: "the Ship hit an iceberg;" in fact, the sinking resulted from a whole series of circumstances.

Originally, the wireless signal for a ship in distress was cqd, but in 1908 a new signal, sos, was introduced since the combination of three dots, three dashes, and three dots could be easily recognized by even the greenest amateur. Records show that the sos call was used at least as early as 10 June 1909, by the Cunard liner SS Slavonia.