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200,000 Titanic-Related Documents Published Online
With the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking coming up, ancestry.com has released 200,000 documents online relating to the ill-fated ship. The documents provide information about survivors and the 1,500 people who died, a number of wills, and hundreds of coroner inquests. You can look at the Titanic document collection for free until May 13. From the article: "The records include the ship's official passenger list, which shows the names, ages and occupations of those on board the ill-fated liner.
It also details the nationalities, positions and addresses of the ship's crew which had more than 900 members."
there were a lot of Syrian emigrants on the ill-fated oceanliner. I liked that in Cameron's movie, he actually had some Syrians on screen for 2-3 seconds in steerage, confused about directions. Nice historical touch.
double useless trivia: the movie had to be renamed for the Middle Eastern market, as "Titanic" sounds like a slang term for "let's have sex"
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
200,000?
So that's the precise definition of a boatload.
Titanic-related headlines lately, from Cameron going deep-sea exploring to this current one, would have a suspicious person thinking that a subtle publicity campaign were underway for a Titanic re-release or something... I guess this is the new way to infiltrate the net - keep publishing little bullshit quasi-related stories week after week to keep "top of mind". Just like facebook/Zuckerberg and co did months before "social network" was released, except that one started by trying to bulldoze over a bunch of bad press FB was getting for privacy and TOS change issues, and was going to culminate in the IPO but someone messed up the timing.
Ahh it must be nice to have serious piles of cash and to afford to be subtle. Fortunately not everyone is stupid.
Pointless Titanic 3D "remake" in you nearby cinema.
All this titanic crap is some kind of sick commercialisation of a disaster.
Soon they'll be a titanic ride at some amusement park.
Do we really need this bullshit collateral advertising on slashdot?
who the hell cares? It was a damn ship that sunk. There have been lots of other ships that sank before and after it, with more deaths, more carnage, etc. etc.
Titanic fanbois: But it was sooo romantic!
Me: Shut the fuck up, idiot (smacks fanbois jaw with a crushing uppercut)
This is about as interesting as posting every document related to every person who emigrated from w00tdorf, Germany to yayoubetcha, Minnesota in 1890.
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Why, oh, why couldn't have Celine Dion been on that ship, too?
Are they in 3D? Because I will only pay attention to something if it has "in 3D" in the title.
Good job by ancestry.com. I was not even aware data this detailed even existed. It is nice to get a demographic breakdown of an event that holds such a large place in the popular imagination.
On top of that, it appears to be good marketing for the site as well. The interface seems fluid enough. They are likely to snag a whole bunch of new business with the free trial. Smart move all around.
from the piece-of-shit company:
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save yourself the link clickage. they are selling shit and we just don't care...
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When I was in college, I got myself obsessed with the Titanic disaster for whatever reason. I still find myself going back to it from time-to-time, and with the anniversary coming up, I've been listening more and more to Gavin Bryar's 60+ minute composition 'Sinking of the Titanic', (fave clip) a piece which emulates the sound of the violinists who 'played on', playing underwater. However haunting it is, I used to put it on every night to help me sleep.
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First, they require you to register an email address. Then the documents show up in Flash (which I didn't see because I disabled Flash as it doesn't work with FF 11). There's a "print" button, but it doesn't look like you can download the actual data to do some stat hacking or the like.
If someone can figure out differently, please post how.
2012 is also the 100th anniversary of the Oreo cookie and it is believed to be the end of the world by the Mayan calendar. Coincidence? I think not.......
I find this kind of blatant propaganda spreading disgusting!
The whole idea that the Titanic sank is just another media hoax perpetrated by a clandestine organization to gain sympathy for their cause.
The photo evidence? Doctored...
The survivor interviews? Professional actors playing a role.
The newspaper articles? A fraud perpetuated by media barons.
Notice how in popular movies the passengers on the Titanic are always portrayed as VICTIMS?? They throw in all this sentimental romanticism... don't fall for it! They're manipulating the public and re-writing history.
It's time we stand up against this and tell them we can't be deceived! It's time to teach our children the truth and turn students against their indoctrinating educators. Because if we don't then soon they'll take the reigns of power and change our way of life. It's time to stand up and say...
TITANIC DENIERS UNITE!!!
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Do you think any of those 1,517 passengers who died ever imagined how famous they'd be simply because their ocean liner struck an iceberg and sank? I recently heard a really funny comment on NPR radio during the "Wait, Wait. Don't Tell Me" segment. "Titanic, the movie that spawed a real-life shipwreck."
And the people of Belfast patiently await mention of RMS Titanic's sister-ship and first of class, RMS Olympic, which made her maiden crossing to New York on 31st May 1911 and continued in service until the early 1930s.
A fine example of Harland & Wolff shipbuilding, she even survived the impact of a Royal Navy cruiser which collided with her making 19 knots.
The launch of the Titanic, second of class, was a minor event compared to the ongoing adulation lauded on the Olympic. So you see, the Titanic was neither the largest ship in the World at the time, nor the most famous or glamorous. But that doesn't sell a film very well, does it?
And they hope there's little mention of HMHS Britannic, the third sister - who also had something of an inglorious career.
Her completion was delayed by months when WWI broke out and efforts were shifted to higher priority wartime Admiralty contracts. When she was completed she was laid up for months because the White Star line considered it too risky to place her into service.
Then, after being requisitioned by the Admiralty and just a years service as a hospital ship - she struck a mine off the Grecian coast. Despite post-Titanic modifications (which prevented too many compartments from flooding), a damaged watertight door and open portholes on the lower decks lead to rapid flooding - and her Captain ordered he abandoned only twenty minutes after the explosion. Fifty five minutes after the explosion, she rolled over on her starboard side and sank.
Olympic 45,325 tons. Titanic 46,328 tons.
You should read the contemporary press - all of which lauded Titanic as the largest, most glamorous, most famous, etc... ship of the time. The hyperbole wasn't invented for the film and predates the sinking.
Maybe it's not interesting to you... but the world doesn't revolve around you. This is going to be very interesting to genealogists and historians.
My niece (the family genealogist and historian) has been bouncing off of the walls since she first heard rumors of this... supposedly we have a distant relative who died onboard Titanic and now she has another shot at tracking them down. She hasn't been able to before, but she's very thorough and very persistent in making every effort to verify a story before moving it from the "legend" to the "fact" category. (My family tells lots of tall tales about it's history, some even having a grain of truth.)
You have to give them a credit card and open a trial membership to get access to the data. Cheeky blighters! This is all OUT OF COPYRIGHT!
Because of the water mark!
will they be in 3d or will we have to wait 10 years for them to be "improved with 3d technology"?
http://xkcd.com/
When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.
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200,000 is just the tip of the ....
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
They killed all those rich people and it still isnt obvious that:
1 the boat was build to sink
2 there was no iceberg
All those rich people who had enough money to be against fractional reserve banking. Without their influence it was like taking candy from a baby. The baby is still clueless about his candy.