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Don White wrote:
JimH wrote:

On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over
1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by
Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book
described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an
iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of
Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.

Speaking of the Titanic... in today's news
http://www.cbc.ca/ns/story/ns-hfxexp...e20060105.html


ooops! Wrong disaster.... the two were only 3 years apart.
 
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