Sunday, August 2, 2009

Ten curiosities of the Titanic


The histories and legends that are counted on this craft are several, from those that narrate the suppositions bad premonitions that motivated the sinking of the ship, until those that speak of extraordinary situations carried out by the passengers in the most tragic moments in the trip. Here a selection of 10 curiosities on the Titanic.
1. - in 1897 the writer
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he/she gave to know their name publication Futility. The plot of this book outlined the history of a called ship Titan which was thought it was indestructible, however its destination was other, since in a night of April this craft collided against something very similar to an iceberg, what would cause its sinking.
This work was written 14 years before the Titanic weighed anchor. It is said that the writer predicted the terrible end of the British ship.
2. - one of the most popular and less proven legends is the one that counts the history of the Egyptian mummy that traveled in the Titanic, which you/they say it was stolen of this country, what unchained a curse that took to this ship to their sinking.
3.-Manuel Uruchurtu the only Mexican that approached was and he died in the Titanic. It is said that it could have been saved, however this man gave him his place in the boat lifeboat to a woman, with the condition that this he went to Veracruz to see the one that would be his widow and it counted him on the last moments in the ship.
4. - studies carried out by the Technological University of Queensland, reveal that the survivors of the sinking, in their North American majority, pushed the Englishmen that made line to take the boats lifeboat and they didn't respect the measures of security.
The conclusion was that they only survived the not well educated ones and of worse manners, as well as those passenger of first class that you/they had a clearer vision of the situation.
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it is famous for the legend of these musicians that you/they played in the last moments of the Titanic on the water. Several rumors exist on the last song that the eight members of this band interpreted, one of the melodies that more it is mentioned it was that of YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. .
6.-one of the most popular sentences and that they say I omen bad luck, it was the marked one for the manufacturers of this enormous ship: “God will not even be able to collapse to the Titanic”, the reality like we know he/she went different to the one predicted by these people.
They had only been enough 5 seconds to visualize the iceberg before the Titanic smashed and to avoid with this the catastrophe. However with 5 seconds less, the collision had been front.
8.-Elizabeth Gladys “Millvina” Dean, is 97 years old and he is the only survivor of the Titanic. Its age to the moment of the sinking of this ship was of 2 months, for what this woman doesn't remember absolutely anything of that happened the dawn of April 15.
9. - when the flares of white color rushed (international sign of aid), to the moment of the sinking of the ship, near crafts thought that they were lights originated for some I celebrate in the Titanic.
10. - they exist several movies that talk about the Titanic, in the second Guerra's World cup years, Hitler sent to film a movie that depicts to a company English coward and a group of valiant and honorable Germans.

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