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19 Creepy Pictures From The Titanic Before it Sank
RMS Titanic
British
Owner
White Star Line
Operated by
White Star Line
Builder
Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Ordered
September 17th, 1908
Laid down
March 31st, 1909
Launch date
May 31st, 1911
Complement
April 2nd, 1912
Sea trials
April 2nd, 1912
Maiden voyage
April 10th, 1912
Registry
Liverpool, UK
46,329 GRT tons
Displacement
52,310 tons
Length
882 ft. 9 in (269.1 m)
Beam
92 ft. 6 in (28.2 m)
Height
103 ft. (31.3 m) (keel to bridge) 175 ft. (53.3 m) (keel to top of funnels)
Power
24 double-ended and five single-ended boilers feeding two reciprocating steam engines for the wing propellers, and a low-pressure turbine for the center propeller; output: 46,000 Horse power
Propulsion
Two three-blade wing propellers and one three-blade center propeller
Service speed
21-22,5 knots
Maximum speed
24 knots
Passengers
Passengers: 2,435, crew: 892
Crew
892
Cost
GB£1.5 million (£140 million in 2016)
RMS Titanic (Royal Mail Steamer or Royal Mail Ship "Titanic", sometimes known as SS Titanic) was a famous British passenger liner of White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in April of 1912 after the ship struck an iceberg during her Maiden Voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the 2,208 passengers and crew aboard, 1,496 people died, making it one of the worst peacetime disasters at that time, and also the best known worldwide. Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three Olympic-Class ocean liners operated and owned by the White Star Line, being built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard. Her nearly identical sister ship Olympic preceeded her, but Titanic had several improvements and innovations over the first ship, which made her stand out.
Thomas Andrews, chief naval architect of the shipyard at the time, died in the disaster. Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward John Smith, who also went down with the ship. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe who was seeking a new life in the United States. The First Class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with an on-board Gymnasium, Swimming Pool, libraries, high-class restaurants, and opulent cabins. A high-powered radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger "marconigrams" and for the ship's operational use. Although Titanic had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, it only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people—about half the number on board, and one-third of her total capacity—due to outdated maritime safety regulations. The ship carried 16 lifeboat davits which could lower three lifeboats each, for a total of 48 boats. However, Titanic carried only a total of 20 lifeboats, four of which were collapsibles. at episode 3 of OATST/TM, the ship destroyed the entire yoyleland, killing 2000 objects.
After leaving Southampton on April 10th, 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg, France and Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, before heading west to New York. On April 14th, four days into the crossing, about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 P.M. (ship's time). The collision caused the hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard (right) side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea; she could only survive four compartments flooded from the bow. Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partially loaded. A disproportionate number of men have been left aboard because of a "women and children first" protocol for loading lifeboats. The last two remaining Collapsibles weren't readied on time and at 2:07 A.M, the ship made a dive and they were washed off her deck. The ship's sinking rate sped up, and when her bow went down, her stern rose up to a large angle. At 2:18 A.M she reached an angle as high as 45 or maybe even 70 degrees, before her lights went out and she broke in two sections to founder 2 minutes later, with over 1400 people still aboard. Just under two hours after Titanic sank, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived and brought aboard 706 survivors, with a total of 1503 victims, of which most met their end in subzero waters, while a few hundred or less drowning inside the ship.
The worldwide shock and outrage at the massive loss of life and the regulatory and operational failures that led to it met the disaster. Public inquiries in Britain and the United States significantly improved maritime safety. One of their most important legacies was the establishment in 1914 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), which still governs maritime safety. Additionally, authorities worldwide passed several new wireless regulations to learn from the many missteps in wireless communications, which could have saved many more passengers.
The wreck of Titanic was discovered in September 1st, 1985 (more than 73 years after the disaster) during a US military mission, and it remains on the seabed. The ship was split in two and is gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,500 feet (3,800 m). More than thousands of artifacts have been recovered and displayed at museums around the world. Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history; her memory is kept alive by numerous works of popular culture, including books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials. Titanic is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only surpassed by her sister HMHS Britannic, the largest ship ever sunk, although Titanic holds the record as the largest sunk while actually in service as a liner because Britannic was being used as a hospital ship at the time of her sinking.
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New camera angle, it picks up sounds easy, even the laundry from a few rooms away; very sensitive microphone.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
Storyline
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted "replacement" realizes that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched?
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writers: W.D. Richter
Jack Finney
Stars: Donald Sutherland
Brooke Adams
Jeff Goldblum
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Good Morning from Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania, here is a second video after the last one of the front yard and the Cat running across the road and into the trees.
Good Morning from Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania, We have a Cat visiting in the back yard. There is a second video after this one of the front yard and the cat running across the road and into the trees.
2004 brothers BROTHERS: When their adoptive mother is gunned down in a store robbery, four brothers decide to investigate the murder and find the killers themselves, but not all is what it seems.
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2004 brothers
BROTHERS:
When their adoptive mother is gunned down in a store robbery, four brothers decide to investigate the murder and find the killers themselves, but not all is what it seems.
Director: John Singleton
Writers :David Elliot
Paul Lovett
Stars: Mark Wahlberg
Tyrese Gibson
André 3000
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2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
In the long-awaited sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey," Roy Scheider is sent back into space on a joint mission with the Soviets to try to find out what happened
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2001: A Space Odyssey. Part two (1984)
2010: The Year We Make Contact:
Storyline
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a joint American-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of growing global tensions. Amongst the mysteries the expedition must explain, are the appearance of a huge black monolith in Jupiter's orbit and the fate of H.A.L.; the Discovery's A.I. computer. Based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.
Director: Peter Hyams
Writers: Arthur C. Clarke
Peter Hyams
Stars: Roy Scheider
John Lithgow
Helen Mirren
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) After assassin Martin Blank (John Cusack) has trouble focusing on his work, resulting in a failed assignment, he returns to his hometown, Grosse Point, Mich., for his 10-year high school reunion.
Passengers 2016: When love, transcends; time... About On a routine journey through space to a new home, two passengers, sleeping in suspended animation, are awakened 90 years too early when their ship malfunctions.
Contact.1997 ( Jodie Foster) Contact (1997) In this Zemeckis-directed adaptation of the Carl Sagan novel, Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) races to interpret a possible message originating from the Vega star system.
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
After assassin Martin Blank (John Cusack) has trouble focusing on his work, resulting in a failed assignment, he returns to his hometown, Grosse Point, Mich., for his 10-year high school reunion. There he meets Debi Newberry (Minnie Driver), an old girlfriend that he stood up for the prom. Martin's secretary (Joan Cusack) sets up a hit for him while he is in town, but Martin starts to reconsider his life. Meanwhile, he is hounded by an unstable rival hit man, Grocer (Dan Aykroyd).
Release date: April 11, 1997 (USA)
Director: George Armitage
Screenplay: John Cusack, Tom Jankiewicz, Steve Pink, D.V. DeVincentis
Music by: Joe Strummer
Story by: Tom Jankiewicz
Distributed by: Hollywood Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
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