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Titanic
The Titanic sank in less than 3 hours despite its 16 watertight
compartments. Of 2220 passengers and crew aboard - 1513 died,
including a few millionaires. Three survivors are still alive today.
The Titanic carried passengers transferred to it from two other cruise
liners due to a strike.
The radio operator of the "Californian" was asleep and did not hear
the Titanic's distress signals.
The story of a huge gash inflicted on the 269 meters long ship is a
myth. Sonar findings indicate that the damage was limited to 35 meters
of the hull and had a surface area of merely 1 square meter. The ship
seems to have broken in three pieces BEFORE it sank.
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/
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Tussaud, Madam Marie
Marie Tussaud (her real name was a less French sounding Grosholtz)
must have been a remarkable woman. From truly humble origins - her
mother worked as the housekeeper of one, Dr. Philippe Curtius - she
sprang to fame in less than 10 years. The good doctor owned and
operated a small wax museum in Paris and, when he died in 1794, Marie
- who was his trainee and maybe more - inherited his collection of
death masks and a house or two in Paris.
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