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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
April 18, 2012 People walk past the grave of the so-called unknown child at a public interfaith memorial service at Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax on April 15. The event was held in remembrance of the lives lost in the Titanic tragedy and of the...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
A century has passed since the largest and the most luxurious passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sank on its maiden voyage after crashing with a huge iceberg mid-Atlantic in 1912. Over the years, scores of scientists and explorers worldwide have...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Residents of two Lebanon villages held a remembrance ceremony on Monday for the 24 victims from their village aboard the gigantic Titanic that sank in the North Atlantic a century ago. Kfarmishki and Hardin villages lost 13 and 11 natives...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
On Sunday, thousands of people commemorated the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. In order to memorialize the fallen victims of the ship, relatives, enthusiasts and well wishes attended ceremonies across the globe. The memorial...
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China Post
| 1 year ago
A range of objects related to the Titanic from a launch ticket to a piece of rug were auctioned off Sunday on the 100th anniversary of the ocean liner's sinking, auctioneers Bohnams said...Titanic: 100 years of fact & fiction at Bonhams, included...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
Six-year old Alex Warouaon (in pink) from Chicago, whose great-great-great-grandfather, Anthony Frost, died in the Titanic disaster, stands with relatives during a minute of silence at the Titanic Memorial Plaque during a service in Belfast, Northern...
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The Globe and Mail
| 1 year ago
Done with dignity and grace as Halifax marked for the last time Sunday the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Titanic. This is the day, said Mr. Rutherford, whose grandmother, Alice Fortune, a first-class passenger, survived the Titanic...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
AT Children stand behind gravestones for each of the Titanic victims buried in Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax. (Sabrina Fabian/CBC) Halifax's Titanic commemoration events moved into the Fairview Lawn Cemetery on Sunday, where many of the victims are...
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Delhi News-Record
| 1 year ago
The event was held at Fairview Lawn Cemetery, where 121 victims were laid to rest. "The sinking of the Titanic brought heartbreak to many individuals, but perhaps no Canadian province was more affected than Nova Scotia," MacKay said. "Whether buried...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
A blue diamond necklace known as the Heart of the Ocean played a major role in James Cameron's epic Titanic, where it belonged to Kate Winslet's character Rose. Now a modest replica worth $15,000 is to be sold online at auction. If you want to learn...
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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
At sea and on land Sunday, wreaths were cast, memorials unveiled and people stood in silence to remember the 1,500 people who died in the sinking of the Titanic ocean liner a century ago. In Belfast, the city that built the Titanic, a memorial garden...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
A flower rests on the grave marker of a Titanic victim during a small local community service at the Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia April 15, 2012. At the shrill sound of a ship's whistle in the North Atlantic, relatives of some of...
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Xtra News
| 1 year ago
Titanic anniversary creating events across the world Newstalk ZB April 15, 2012, 9:59 pm Events across the world and at the scene of the tragedy are recalling the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago. The cruise ships Balmoral and Azamara Journey are...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 1 year ago
Today, in the quiet of her Upper Arlington condominium, Antoinette Koolemans-Beynen will be thinking about the grandfather she never knew. Her father's father, Johan George Reuchlin, went down with the Titanic on April 15, 1912...Reuchlin was a...
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Novinite
| 1 year ago
Commemorations take place in Britain, Canada, Northern Ireland and the United States, among others. On the night of April 14, 1912, shortly before midnight, the Titanic hit an iceberg. Some three hours later the biggest passenger liner of the day...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The Titanic tragedy is one such... especially for those affected. A century after the tragic incident, the world is commemorating the disaster that struck during the early hours of 15 April, killing over 1,500 passengers and crew on board. The ship...
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Acushnet Community News
| 1 year ago
A Westport man with an extensive collection of Titanic memorabilia is spending this morning floating aboard the cruise ship Journey over the site where the luxury liner hit an iceberg and sank 100 years ago today...Robert Lawrence, pastor emeritus of...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
April 15, 2012 Sunday, April 15, 2012 What legendary maritime tragedy claimed 1,500 lives April 15, 1912? April 15, 1912, at approximately 2 a.m. ship time, the R.M.S. Titanic, built by the White Star Line, sank in the Atlantic Ocean near...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
New bits and pieces of RMS Titanic's story of heroic love, tragedy and enduring mystery have surfaced from an old cardboard box at the national archives. A series of parched telegrams from then-prime minister Robert Borden, the Governor General and...
