re: Pictures from days gone by....

That's cool as hell

Titanic Survivor Violet Madeline Mellenger

In early 1912 Madeline's mother had gained a position as a housekeeper in Bennington, Vermont on the Fillmore Farms, the estate of the Colgate family who had founded the toothpaste brand. She and her mother boarded the Titanic at Southampton on 10 April 1912 as second-class passengers.

In an interview with the Toronto Star on 15 April 1974 she said: "We were asleep in our berths when a man banged on our door and told us to put on warm clothes and lifebelts and to get on deck."

She said she and her mother were hurled into a half empty lifeboat and she shivered in the drifting boat, the cries of the drowning all around her.

"I could see the lights of the ship starting to go under water, then soundlessly, perhaps a mile away, it just went down. It was gone. Oh yes, the sky was very black and the stars were very bright. They told me the people in the water were singing, but I knew they were screaming."

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The 91-gun battleship of the British Navy HMS Exmouth, laid down in 1840.

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Can you imagine the amount of noise inside that ship when those big cannons were firing?


Life at sea back then was a very dangerous endeavor, but between those two, give me the huge wooden battleship. You can keep the first runs of submarines and I'll take my chances above the surface.

Almost a century ago...

In 1924, Ruth Malcomson Was Crowned Miss America At The Age Of 18, Following Her Victory As Miss Philadelphia In 1923

The crew of Skylab 4 become the first astronauts to celebrate Thanksgiving in space: 50 years ago today:

Sgt. Alvin York driving into Jamestown, TN