When I first heard that a new multi-city Titanic exhibition was coming to San Francisco and several other places around the country, I had to wonder, is the public really still hungry for more details of the famous disaster?
The rusty, 3-foot-long steam whistle Harry Zych cradles in his arms screamed in alarm as the stately USM Lady Elgin sank just north of Chicago 146 years ago -- one of the 19th century's worst maritime disasters.
A clarinet recovered from the wreck of the Titanic on display at the Science Museum in London. Victorians will get the chance to go down with the most famous ship in history, or at least pretend to, when a major haul of artifacts from the Titanic surfaces at the Royal B.C. Museum next year.
A team of divers is exploring the wreck of Belfast-built ocean liner HMHS Britannic, the last of the three White Star Line sister ships that include Titanic and Olympic.
* An alphabetical listing of movies on TV the week of Oct. 8-Oct. 14. Above the Law (1988) Steven Seagal, Henry Silva. A renegade cop bucks the system after he uncovers a covert CIA drug-running operation in Chicago. (R) 1 hr. 39 mins.
Stories about the White Star liner Titanic found off Newfoundland or the Lusitania sunk by a German torpedo off Southern Ireland — these massive tombs stir the imagination.
CHICAGO -- The rusty, 3-foot-long steam whistle Harry Zych cradles in his arms screamed in alarm as the stately USM Lady Elgin foundered and sank just north of Chicago 146 years ago -- one of the 19th century's worst maritime disasters.
An Ocean Of Surprises In The Other British Isles There are islands in the Hebrides and Orkneys where only one man lives, an island unto himself and maybe a thousand sheep. And there are others with no one in residence at all, but wild sheep share the scenery with otters, eagles and vast colonies of nesting seabirds.
Adrift out here on the fringes of the Caribbean, The Turks and Caicos Islands sit at the bottom of the Bahamas chain, nature's afterthought 575 miles southeast of Miami.