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you ever get surprised by your own recurring issues. like come on man. I thought we were past this.

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DID YOU KNOW: Titanic’s bandmaster received a massive funeral that rivaled that of a British Prime Minister? Wallace Hartley, the 33-year-old head of Titanic’s eight man band, was one of the bodies recovered from the sea by the CS Mackay-Bennett in late April, 1912. Hartley’s remains were returned to his hometown of Colne, Lancashire, and a massively elaborate funeral was held. Over 1,000 mourners attended the funeral itself, while between 30 and 40 thousand people lined the route from the church to the Keighley Road cemetery where Hartley was to be buried. In contrast, when Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman had died in 1908 at 10 Downing Street - to date the only Prime Minister to die at the address - his funeral was much more subdued, with only a few hundred mourners at Westminster Abbey.

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Mikołajki, Poland by artemis.studio

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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL - Costumes

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Titanic (1997) - dir. James Cameron

Victor Garber as Thomas Andrews, father of the Titanic.

In appearance he made a fine figure, standing nearly six feet high, weighing some two hundred pounds, well-built, straight, with broad shoulders and great physical development. He had dark brown hair, sharp clean-shaven features; you would call him handsome; his brown eyes met yours with a look of the frankest kindliness, and when he gripped your hand he took you, as it were, to himself. Even as you see him in a portrait you feel constrained to exclaim, as many did at first sight of him, “Well, that’s a man!” He had a wonderful ringing laugh, an easy way with him, an Irishman’s appreciation of humour. He was sunny, big-hearted, full of gaiety. He loved to hear a good story, and could tell you one as well as another. He had the luck to be simple in his habits and pleasures, his food, his dress, his tastes. Give him health, plenty of friends, plenty of work, and occasionally some spare hours in which to enjoy a good book (Maeterlinck’s Life of the Bee for preference) and some good music, to go yachting on Strangford Lough, or picnicking at the family bungalow on Braddock Island, or for a long jolly ride with Mrs. Andrews in their little Renault round the Ards Peninsula, and he was thoroughly content. When of a Saturday evening he opened the door, so the servants at Ardara used to say, they like all the rest waiting expectantly for his coming, it was as though a wind from the sea swept into the house. All was astir. His presence filled the place. Soon you would hear his father’s greeting, “Well, my big son, how are you?” and thereafter, for one more week’s end, it was in Ardara as though the schoolboy was home for a holiday. You would hear Tom’s voice and laugh through the house and his step on the stairs; you would see him, gloved and veiled, out working among his bees, scampering on the lawn with the children, or playing with the dog, or telling many a good story to the family circle. Everyone loved him—everyone. - Sandra F. Bullock, Thomas Andrews: Shipbuilder

🏷️ : @blanchett / @hannahgrose / @magicaplin / @madeline-kahn / @viggo-mortensen / @usergrinch .

#Thomas Andrews #rms titanic

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“You are going to want to give up. Don’t.”

— Unknown

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The Titanic moored at Belfast - probably on April 2nd 1912.

RMS Titanic was designed and constructed at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland under the supervision of marine architect Alexander Carlisle and chief designer Thomas Andrews.  |  She was 882 feet 9 inches in length and 92 feet in breadth. Her gross tonnage was 46,328 tons. Three propellers were driven by two four-cylinder, triple-expansion, inverted reciprocating steam engines and one low-pressure Parsons turbine. Steam was provided by 25 double-ended and 4 single-ended Scotch-type boilers fired by 159 coal burning furnaces that gave her a theoretical top speed of 23 knots.

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On April 13th 1912, Titanic’s Marconi wireless system broke down. It’s well known that this resulted in a delay which led to a backlog of messages (made worse by Titanic being in range of Cape Race and having to send many messages to and from other ships). What isn’t so widely known is the fact that when the system broke down, Jack Phillips and Harold Bride completely broke Marconi rules by taking the system apart, identifying the problem and finally managing to fix the system themselves in the early hours of April 14th. If they hadn’t, there’s a good chance the emergency system’s signal may not have been strong enough to reach the Carpathia clearly (if at all) after Titanic collided with the iceberg just a few hours later.

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Survivors of the Titanic approaching the Carpathia on the morning of April 15th. The Carpathia arrived on the scene at approximately 4:00 am, after speeding through ice fields in an attempt to reach the Titanic before she sunk. It took around 4 hours for all the survivors to board the Carpathia.

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Broad-snouted caiman baby in mother mouth being carried from the nest, Sante Fe, Argentina, 2013 - by Mark MacEwen, English

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SOS SOS CQD CQD TITANIC 

#this is terrifying #rms titanic

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Przemyśl, Poland by Wojciech Pilch

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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So who is really responsible for so many Americans' living paycheck to paycheck?