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The Titanic's fateful maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City

The Titanic's fate was sealed on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. At 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, the Titanic sideswiped an iceberg in the north Atlantic, buckling portions of the starboard hull along a 300-foot span and exposing the six forward watertight compartments to the ocean’s waters. From this moment onward, sinking was a certainty. The demise may have been hastened, however, when crewmen pushed open a gangway door on the port side of Titanic in an aborted attempt to load lifeboats from a lower level. Since the ship had begun listing to port, gravity prevented the crew from closing the massive door, and by 1:50 a.m., the bow had settled enough to allow seawater to rush in through the gangway.

By 2:18 a.m., with the last lifeboat having departed 13 minutes earlier, the bow had filled with water and the stern had risen high enough into the air to expose the propellers and create catastrophic stresses on the middle of the ship. Then the Titanic cracked in half.

Once released from the stern section, the bow fell to the ocean floor at a fairly steep angle, nosing into the mud with such massive force that its ejecta patterns are still visible on the seafloor today.

The stern, lacking a hydrodynamic leading edge like the bow, tumbled and corkscrewed for more than two miles down to the ocean floor. Compartments exploded. Decks pancaked. Heavier pieces such as the boilers dropped straight down, while other pieces were flung off into the abyss.

The wreckage

For decades, a number of expeditions sought to find the Titanic without success—a problem compounded by the North Atlantic’s unpredictable weather, the enormous depth at which the sunken ship lies, and conflicting accounts of its final moments. Finally, 73 years after it sank, the final resting place of Titanic was located by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Robert Ballard, along with French scientist Jean-Louis Michel, on September 1, 1985. The Titanic had come to rest roughly 380 miles (612 kilometers) southeast of Newfoundland in international waters. (Discover how the Titanic was found during a secret Cold War mission.)

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What was lost

More than 2,000 passengers and crew were aboard the Titanic’s maiden voyage, but only 706 survived the trip.

Although the ocean liner could carry 3,511 passengers, the Titanic only had lifeboats for 1,178 people. To make matters worse, not all of the lifeboats were filled to capacity during the desperate evacuation of the doomed ship. Most of the Titanic’s 1,500-odd victims died of hypothermia at the surface of the icy water. Hundreds of people may also have died inside the ship as it sank, most of them immigrant families in steerage class, looking forward to a new life in America.

Along with the lives lost, something else went down with the Titanic: An illusion of orderliness, a faith in technological progress, a yearning for the future that, as Europe drifted toward full-scale war, was soon replaced by fears and dreads all too familiar to our modern world. (Test your knowledge of the famous ship.)

“The Titanic disaster was the bursting of a bubble,” said filmmaker James Cameron. “There was such a sense of bounty in the first decade of the 20th century. Elevators! Automobiles! Airplanes! Wireless radio! Everything seemed so wondrous, on an endless upward spiral. Then it all came crashing down.”

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Racial Segregation in American History

Abraham Lincoln assassination

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 a.m., in the Petersen House opposite the theater. He was the first American president to be assassinated.

The Houses were built by Black Slaves

1619: 400 years ago, a ship arrived in Virginia, bearing human cargo

After having been kidnapped from their villages in what is present-day Angola, forced onto a Portuguese slave ship bound for what Europeans called the New World and stolen from that ship by English pirates in a confrontation off the coast of Mexico, “some 20. and odd Negroes” landed at Point Comfort in 1619, in the English settlement that would become Virginia.

Their arrival was duly noted by the colony’s secretary, John Rolfe, famous as the widower of the Native American woman called Pocahontas.

The harrowing journey that began with about 350 Africans on board the San Juan Bautista was one of terror, hunger and death even before the encounter with the pirates. About half of the Africans who boarded the Portuguese ship died, some of the millions who perished during the Middle Passage from the 1600s to the 1800s. When the San Juan Bautista docked near what is now Veracruz, Mexico, on Aug. 30, 1619, there were 147 Africans on board. Fifty had been taken by those English pirates aboard two ships, the White Lion and the Treasurer.

After having been kidnapped from their villages in what is present-day Angola, forced onto a Portuguese slave ship bound for what Europeans called the New World and stolen from that ship by English pirates in a confrontation off the coast of Mexico, “some 20. and odd Negroes” landed at Point Comfort in 1619, in the English settlement that would become Virginia.

Their arrival was duly noted by the colony’s secretary, John Rolfe, famous as the widower of the Native American woman called Pocahontas.

The harrowing journey that began with about 350 Africans on board the San Juan Bautista was one of terror, hunger and death even before the encounter with the pirates. About half of the Africans who boarded the Portuguese ship died, some of the millions who perished during the Middle Passage from the 1600s to the 1800s. When the San Juan Bautista docked near what is now Veracruz, Mexico, on Aug. 30, 1619, there were 147 Africans on board. Fifty had been taken by those English pirates aboard two ships, the White Lion and the Treasurer.

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المذهب المورمون النصراني لا يؤمنون بالثالوث كما الارذودكس

المذهب المورمون النصراني لا يؤمنون بالثالوث كما الارذودكس انهم ثلاثه فى واحد لكن فى المورمن ثلاثه منفصلين وليسو فى واحد وكذلك الاب هو لحم ودم وشكله انسان٠ يسوع عندهم مخلوق وليس ازلى و ابوه خلقه كروح وله اخوه كثيرون و من الاخوه هو الشيطان ابليس٠ يعنى ابليس هو اخو يسوع٠ واضح ان الثالوث هو خربطه وكل طائفه نصرانيه لها تعريف خاص بها مختلف عن الأخر٠

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JOHN F. KENNEDY MEETING WITH DWIGHT EISENHOWER AT CAMP DAVID

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY MEETING WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DWIGHT EISENHOWER AT CAMP DAVID

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the June 4, 1968, assassination of Robert F Kennedy

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The Faces of America

Inter-marriage in America Profiles Through History

Richard and Mildred Loving at home with their children Peggy, Donald and Sidney in 1967.

Angela Martano, 29, and Terrel Stokes, 28

That is a five-fold increase from 1967, when the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Loving v. Virginia, the decision that made interracial marriage legal across the nation. 

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وفاة فرانكلين روزفلت 12 أبريل 1945

كان فرانكلين ديلانو روزفلت هو الرئيس الثانى والثلاثون للولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، وكان ينتمى إلى الحزب الديمقراطى. تولى الحكم من تاريخ ٤ مارس ١٩٣٣ إلى ١٢ أبريل ١٩٤٥ في نفس يوم وفاته حيث توفى في مثل هذا اليوم (١٢أبريل) حيث أعيد انتخابه ثلاث مرات متتالية ويصنف فرانكلين روزفلت كواحد من أعظم ثلاثة رؤساء أمريكيين. دخل فرانكلين روزفلت الحرب العالمية الثانية بأمريكا بعد أن كانت محايدة فأنزل قواته في النورماندى شمال فرنسا، كما أوقعت البحرية الأمريكية بالأسطول اليابانى هزيمة كبيرة وقد شجع روزفلت تطوير البحوث النووية لتقوم، حتى إن أمريكا قامت بتفجير أول قنبلة ذرية في التاريخ بعد وفاته بأشهر وفى الحرب العالمية الثانية قاد الحلفاء إلى النصر على الرغم من شلله.

وإذا ما أردنا أن نسجل حياة فرانكلين روزفلت في محطات رئيسية فنقول إنه ولد في الثلاثين من يناير عام ١٨٨٢ في نيويورك وأصيب في رجليه عام ١٩٢١ فأصبح يتحرك بواسطة مقعد، ولم يزده ذلك إلا اندفاعا في السياسة. عضو في الحزب الديمقراطى وانتخب في مجلس الشيوخ عام ١٩١٠ الرئيس الـ٣٣ للولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، وتولى الرئاسة في مارس ١٩٣٣، وقد أعيد انتخابه ثلاث مرات وهى سابقة في تاريخ أمريكا، إلى أن توفى «زي النهارده»فى ١٢ أبريل ١٩٤٥م، وكان روزفلت قد فرض حظرا بتروليا ومنع تصدير الحديد إلى اليابان تعاطفا مع حلفائه التقليديين أي بريطانيا وروسيا وكانت اليابان قد هاجمت القطع البحرية الأمريكية في ميناء بيرل هاربر في المحيط الهادى في ديسمبر ١٩٤١م على إثر امتناع أمريكا عن تزويد اليابان بالنفط والصلب أعلن روزفلت في حملته الانتخابية الأولى عزمه على مساعدة اليهود في إنشاء دولة يهودية في فلسطين.

كما رحب بالقرار الصادر عن المؤتمر الاستثنائى الذي عقده يهود أمريكا في نيويورك يوم ١١ مايو ١٩٤٢ وقرروا فيه جعل فلسطين دولة يهودية بعد إخراج العرب منها. ولروزفلت مقولة شهيرة يقول فيها: «الشىء الوحيد الذي يجب أن نخاف منه هو الخوف نفسه» لقد تبوأ فرانكلين روزفلت سدةالرئاسة في الولايات المتحدةالأمريكيةفى وقت صعب واستثنائى كانت تمر به البلاد، ففى هذا الوقت كانت الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية تعيش أكبر أزمة مالية في تاريخها، وهذه الأزمة لفت في بداية الثلاثينات من القرن الفائت سائر العالم الرأسمالى إلا أنها كانت أشد وطأة في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكيةحيث اتخذت الأزمةهناك طابع المقاييس الكارثية وروزفلت بالذات هو من تمكن من إخراج الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية من الأزمة بفضل السياسة الاقتصادية الجديدة كما لعب روزفلت دورا مهما في تأسيس الائتلاف المعادى للهتلرية.

Thomas H. Corbett The Christian soldier who castrated himself and Killed John Wilkes Booth

Boston Corbett
Corbett c. 1860–1865
Birth name	Thomas H. Corbett
Nickname(s)	The Glory to God Man
Born	1832 London, United Kingdom
Died	c. September 1, 1894 (aged 62) (presumed) Near Hinckley, Minnesota, U.S.
Allegiance	United States of America Union
Service/branch	U.S. Army Union Army
Years of service	1861–1865
Rank	Sergeant (Union Army)
Unit	12th Regiment New York Militia 16th New York Cavalry Regiment
Battles/wars	American Civil War
Other work	Hatter
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Thomas H. "Boston" Corbett (1832 – presumed dead c. September 1, 1894) was a Union Army soldier who shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Corbett was initially arrested for disobeying orders, but was later released on the orders of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who referred to Corbett as "the patriot" upon dismissing him. He was largely considered a hero by the media and the public.

Known for his devout religious beliefs and eccentric behavior, Corbett drifted around the United States before disappearing around 1888. Circumstantial evidence suggests that he died in the Great Hinckley Fire in September 1894, but that remains impossible to substantiate.

In 1857, Thomas H. Corbett began working at a hat manufacturer's shop on Washington Street in downtown Boston. He was reported to be a proficient hatter but was known to proselytize frequently and stop work to pray and sing for co-workers who used profanity in his presence. He also began working as a street preacher and would sermonize and distribute religious literature in North Square.^[8] Corbett soon earned a reputation around Boston for being a "local eccentric" and religious fanatic. On July 16, 1858, Corbett was propositioned by two prostitutes while walking home from a church meeting. He was deeply disturbed by the encounter. Upon returning to his room at a boardinghouse, Corbett began reading chapters 18 and 19 in the Gospel of Matthew ("And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee....and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake"). In order to avoid sexual temptation and remain holy, he castrated himself with a pair of scissors.^[2] He then ate a meal and went to a prayer meeting before he sought medical treatment.