Today, April 14th - a historical date

[Harry]

Two events of historic proportions happened on the date of April 14th:

In 1912 The Titanic struck an iceburg and in 1865 President Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. The 14th in 1865 was also a Good Friday as it is this year.

Lizzie was alive for both events but was too young (not yet 5) to remember the Lincoln assassination. Emma would have been 14 in 1865, in school, and probably very aware of the times.

We could only guess what they thought of the Titanic sinking. It certainly must have brought back memories to Lizzie of her 1890 trip.

[1bigsteve]

Cool, Harry. My grandparents remembered the Titanic but to them it was like "so what?"

Charlie Chaplin came over to America on board the Olympic, Titanic's sister ship, in 1910 but never said a word about either. I guess people who were there didn't have the interest in those big events that we do now.

Don't forget the Masada event on April 14, 73.

-1bigsteve (o:

[doug65oh]

The play "Our American Cousin" is avalable in plain text format at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3158 for those interested. By modern standards it's probably a bit cheesy, but still makes an entertaining read.

[Wordweaver]

Cool, Harry. My grandparents remembered the Titanic but to them it was like "so what?"

In my childhood, I knew someone who had helped build the Titanic. The Belfast shipyard workers -- in fact, the whole city -- went into mourning for the disaster.

That was forty years ago; he would have been in his late 70s then. A century really isn't a long time. Here we are in the new millennium, but I remember people who were born in the nineteenth century -- some of them as early as 1880.

Lynn

[Kat]

Tonight on Discovery Channel is a new program called:

Iceberg That Sank the Titanic
DSC 41 Apr 15 10:00pm 
Special/Other, 60 Mins.

Conditions leading to the formation of icebergs; the infamous shipwreck.


Original Airdate: April 15, 2006.
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Future Airings:

* Iceberg That Sank the Titanic, DSC Apr 16 02:00am
* Iceberg That Sank the Titanic, DSC Apr 22 02:00pm
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There are older shows starting at 8 PM.

[1bigsteve]

Thank you, Kat. I'll be watching that show.

-1bigsteve (o:

[Kat]

That was cool!
The inevitability of the whole thing: Like Fate!
15,000 years to form that ice and then it broke off (calved) and how long it took to get to where it was struck. And how long it lived afterwards (not long- 2 weeks I think) before dissolving.
Very interesting.

It was "calved" around the time the Titanic was beginning to be built, 1909!
Sounds like a date with Destiny.

[Edited to change date from 1809 to 1909!]

[1bigsteve]

Those were cool shows. Thanks for letting us know they were on, Kat. I couldn't make it all the way through the one on ice (had to get my beauty sleep) but they were all good. There was a lot of stuff there I didn't know about.

Did any of you know that the artist who was drawing the pictiure of Rose in Cameron's movie Titanic was James Cameron himself? It was his hand you see actually drawing that picture.

-1bigsteve (o:

[Kat]

I haven't seen the movie Titanic but Cameron was very knowledgeable with a great amount of enthusiasm.
I admit the ice berg show (the newest one on Titanic to air) was a bit boring- the voice-over was hypnotic.
Still I made it through.

[1bigsteve]

I haven't seen the movie Titanic but Cameron was very knowledgeable with a great amount of enthusiasm.
I admit the ice berg show (the newest one on Titanic to air) was a bit boring- the voice-over was hypnotic.
Still I made it through.

You ought to get the wide screen version, Kat. It is a very good movie! Keep a hanky with you. Oh, and some popcorn too.

I love that film!! I saw that at the theater several times and it just blew me away.

-1bigsteve (o: