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POPSTitanic-survivor dies Two months old she was saved from the Titanic-disaster and now she is having her ashes shattered in the sea.
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POPSCIA said/didn't say xxx about ???, Dems demand
A "hot topic," dispute has been floating around the mainstream news, perhaps as dangerous as the tip of an iceberg to our Titanic ship of state....if we ever find out what it's about. The Brits are scheduled to have another investitation into the lies used to mislead nations into the Iraq war but I understand it's going to be a Secret Hearing. Some Brits protest this and I urge them on even more. This current USA brouhaha about what our current CIA Director said....or what he's alleged to have said....which is now denied by CIA PR official...about a topic that can not be revealed, apparently indicating there was some CIA misleading...but which is also now denied, all about something nobody knows.... It does remind one of the classic: "Who's on First," comedy skit (some baseball familiarity useful)...but the essential idea is not knowing what is being talked about because all the answers are questions, lack of info and timeline confusion. What? you might ask, is going on?
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POPS "And The Band Played On" many of them unfilled. You are not a ship’s officer. As a matter of fact, technically speaking you are not even on the ship’s payroll. All had been forced to take a pay cut, from six pounds ten shillings down to four pounds, and their 10 shilling uniform allowance – that was about two dollars and fifty cents a month – had been cut out completely as exorbitant. When these men complained about the pay cut to the White Star Line, which owned Titanic, they were told that hence forth they would not even be paid the token shilling that made them crewmembers. They would be carried simply as Second Class Passengers. And that’s what they were on that morning. Underpaid, overworked, second-class passengers who had every right to try and gain a place among the 338 men that survived to tell the story, a story ennobled by the universal praise from the survivors for these eight men who did not run from a duty that existed not on paper but only in their own magnificent hearts.
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POPSA "forward" worth forwarding I found this forward in my email inbox today... I looked it up on Snopes.com (which I do to anything that sounds remotely political...) It said it was CORRECTLY ATTRIBUTED... So I thought I'd pass it around in case others haven't come across it yet. Origins: The above-quoted editorial, offering a scathing condemnation of the Bush administration and condemning a lack of strong leadership in the U.S. government, hit our inbox mid-April 2007, attributed to 82-year-old businessman Lee Iacocca (best known for his tenure in the automotive business as the head of Ford and then Chrysler). The attribution was correct, and the timing was no coincidence, as the text was an excerpt from the opening of Iacocca's just-released book, Where Have All the Leaders Gone?, written with Catherine Whitney and published by Scribner. http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/iacocca.asp
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POPSThe Little Titanic At 17.41p.m. Hans Hedtoft informs "we are sinking slowly" and at 18.06 the trawler picks up the beginning of an SOS after which there was no longer connection to the Greenlandic ship. No wreckage could positively be identified as coming from Hans Hedtoft. And not until 9 months after the loss, the only piece of wreckage washed ashore on Iceland: a lifebuoy. The Hans Hedtoft sank 40 years ago.
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POPS Titanic Economic Menace In the present challenging world economy, such follies, such self-inflicted burdens, have, recalling the words of Benjamin Franklin - “even a small hole can sink a big ship” - , morphed into the iceberg that could well help to hole H.M.S. Britannia below the water-line. Carl Mortished so tellingly reminds us: “... the flow of oil, food and raw materials will shift increasingly towards China and India, rather than towards America and Europe. Life will become more expensive and more difficult for Europeans.” Self-indulgent ‘Green’ trumpery can have no place in the real-world economic battles that lie ahead. This is no computer model, the political party which grasps this truth first, and is then straight and honest with the electorate about the limitations of ‘Green’ policies, will not only improve Britain’s position, but, in the longer run, could well hone its own competitive, political edge as the British public returns to basics.
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POPSThe last meal of the Titanic Ninth Course Pate de Foie Gras Celery Tenth Course Waldorf Pudding Peaches in Chartreuse Jelly Chocolate & Vanilla Eclairs French Ice Cream Each of the 10 courses was served with a special accompanying wine. Following the tenth course, fresh fruits and cheeses were available followed by coffee and cigars accompanied by port and, if desired, distilled spirits. and then you know the rest of the story......
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POPS"I'll Never Let Go, Jack" Kind of like watching a sinking ship slowly go down, the last few survivors of one the greatest tragedies of our time slowly fade into the past. I had to clip this one, though, since I've been on a privacy vs public life kick (it's not just me - if you read the Op Ed in Boston's Metro on 11/7 you'd see the same thing!). This article brings up another interesting point about how we approach the public sphere has drastically and swiftly changed. We are all so eager to post blogs and comments on what we ate for breakfast, or what we're listening to, or what we thought of the latest film; and yet, this woman was from a time so removed from that that she didn't even want the ending of her life to be mentioned in public.
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POPSHidden Expedition: Titanic Game Download On April 14, 1912, the great steamship RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and within hours, sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. As part of the Hidden Expedition Adventure League, it's your job to explore the wreckage of this once-majestic ship and collect antique artifacts. Through 14 diving missions you will scour 17 locations on the ship for cleverly hidden clues that will lead you to the ultimate artifact: The Crown Jewels. Get ready to lose yourself in a historic adventure of epic proportions!
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