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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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2008-03-20 Titanic question: Things were indeed very different then. For one thing, it wasn't considered "proper" to put a price on a gentleman's life (even if several ladies did so). But the biggie was that there were legal limits...
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