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Titanic: Titanic Disaster
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The last living survivor of the Titanic will be giving a rare talk about how the fateful event shaped her life. Millvina Dean, will be speaking on April 11, three days before the 96th anniversary of the sinking at The Turner Sims concert hall as part of a three-day programme of events organised by Southampton City Council to remember the disaster. The 96-year-old recently hit out at the BBC's Christmas Day Doctor Who episode depicting the liner as a spaceship colliding with the Tardis as "disrespectful to the dead". She said: "I didn't watch it. I don't watch anything connected with Titanic because it upsets me."
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The passengers on the Titanic have become as infamous as the sinking of the ship itself. While the tragic sinking would have no doubt been met with shock, the tragedy was manifested by large number of first class and notable Titanic passengers who perished in the ship's disaster.
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As with many famous events, many alternative theories about the sinking of Titanic have appeared over the years. Theories that it was not an iceberg that sank the ship or that a curse caused the disaster have been popular reading in newspapers and books. Titanic experts, claiming that the evidence on which these theories were based was inaccurate or incomplete, have debunked most of these theories.
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At 2:20 AM on April 15, 1912, the Titanic, then the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner, disappeared into the icy depths of the North Atlantic. With her she took the lives of some 1,500 men, women, and children—more casualties than in any other marine disaster in peacetime history.
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Officer Lightoller was the ranking Titanic officer to survive the disaster. He supervised loading of the port side lifeboats that morning. Lightoller was pulled from the water by one of the Titanic's lifeboats after the ship went down.
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Students will create a multi-dimensional project focusing on the Titanic disaster of 1912 (this project can be applied to any historical event). Students will research the project using the Internet, MS Encarta, videos, and various books.
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