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Lee Gilliland

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I can answer questions about the RMS Titanic, her sinking, passengers, etc.

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Late of the Titanic-Titanic, Encyclopedia Titanica and Titanic.com, co-owner of TEAMTitanic and Teen Titanic message boards and forums, as well as webmaster for http://www.alexisgilliland.org/tit1.html (site of some Titanic Cartoons)

Organizations

British Titanic Society, Titanic Historical Society
, Titanic International Society

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WSFA Journal

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Recent Answers from Lee Gilliland

2009-10-16 Titanic Survivors:

I have been looking for two days in my library and online and have not been able to find a single picture of him. Perhaps you could ask on Encyclopedia Titanica (http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/)

2008-09-30 history book:

OK, there's A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn for the general history, The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Government by Mary M. Shaffrey and Melanie Fonder for

2008-09-02 Titanic:

No one know precisely how Captain Smith actually died, although stories about it abound. One version had him rescuing a baby and swimming out to a lifeboat (unlikely, the child would have been long dead

2008-08-19 The Titanic:

There was a Thomas Ryan on the Titanic with the Victualling department. He was listed as a steward. How he died is unknown, and although there were people shot that night, almost all were recorded as

2008-06-26 binoculars:

Your friend is right, it would not have helped, but - Binoculars are very useful identifying things once you see them, not so good at spotting them. The main prob with the lookouts was they were too

 

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