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03 Jan 2011	'Titanic' exhibit closing soon at state museum
The highly anticipated "Titanic" exhibit at the Indiana State Museum is almost ready to sail away. There are just two weeks left to see it. "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit" opened in September. It features more than 240 artifacts from the wreckage of the doomed ship. The exhibit in Indianapolis concludes on Sunday, January 16th. Tickets are $17 for adults and $14 for children 12 and under. Click here to find out more about the exhibit at the Indiana State Museum.
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21 Oct 2010	Letter from the Titanic
THE details of one of the final letters of a Broadway-based artist who was a victim of the Titantic tragedy have been revealed as part of a season of television programmes on the world’s most famous ship. Worcestershire County Council’s Record Office has released passages from the letter of Frank Millet, who owned Abbot’s Grange and lived at Russell House in the 1880s. The correspondence, which featured on Monday night’s episode of The Mission on Channel 4, was sent by the American artist and journalist to Broadway resident Alfred Parsons. Mr Parsons was a painter and garden designer who had many artistic and literary friends who were regular visitors to the village at the time of the ‘Broadway Colony’, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and JM Barrie. Robin Whittaker, Worcestershire County Council’s archives manager, said: “This letter was written while Mr Millet was on board the Titanic. It was posted to Mr Parsons via Ireland, and describes in quite witty detail the luxuriousness of the ship.” Mr Millet describes the Titantic as having “everything but taxicabs and theatres” and his cabin as “the best room I ever had in a ship and it isn’t one of the best either”. He adds there is a long corridor “in which to hang my clothes” and a square window as big as the ones in his studio at Abbot’s Grange. “As for the rooms, they are larger than the ordinary hotel rooms and much more luxurious with wooden bedsteads, dressing table, hot and cold water etc etc etc electric fans, electric heaters and all,” writes Mr Millet. “The suites with their damask hangings and mahogany or oak furniture are really very sumptuous and tasteful!” He also informs Mr Parsons of his observations of the behaviour of some of his fellow passengers, writing of a number of “obnoxious ostentatious American women” who he says are “the scourge of any place they infest and worse on shipboard than anywhere”. “Many of them carry tiny dogs and lead husbands around like pet lambs,” he said. The letter is kept in the county council’s strong rooms as part of a larger collection donated by the granddaughters of Mr Parsons.
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21 Oct 2010	Titanic survivor's tale of disaster sold at auction
An account of the sinking of the Titanic written by a survivor who was secretary to a controversial aristocrat has sold for 20,000 pounds (23,000 euros, 32,000 dollars), auctioneers said on Sunday. Laura Francatelli wrote of how she heard an "awful rumbling" as the liner went down before hearing "screams and cries" from hundreds of drowning passengers. She was travelling with her employer, Scottish landowner Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and his wife Lady Lucy Christiana when the disaster struck in 1912. Duff-Gordon and his party boarded one of the last lifeboats, which had space for 40 people but only ended up carrying five passengers and seven crew. He later paid the crew members around five pounds each -- the equivalent of about 300 pounds today -- and had to defend himself against claims that he had paid them off to secure his own safety. In one of the most vivid passages of her account -- an affidavit for the inquiry into the disaster -- Francatelli detailed what happened after their lifeboat was lowered into the sea. "We kept on rowing and stopping and rowing again I heard some talk going on all about the suction if the ship went down," she wrote. "We were a long way off when we saw the Titanic go right up at the back and plunge down. "There was an awful rumbling when she went. Then came the screams and cries. I do not know how long they lasted. We had hardly any talk. The men spoke about God and prayers and wives. We were all in the darkness." The Titanic hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City in April 1912, killing around 1,500 people. Francatelli's account was sold Saturday to an unnamed eastern European collector by auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, southwest England as part of an auction of Titanic memorabilia.
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23 Jun 2010	The Titanic of Tennessee: American town builds giant replica of iconic doomed liner
The 100th anniversary of her sinking is approaching fast, but the Titanic - the ill-fated cruise liner that collided with an iceberg and slipped to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912 - continues to exert a curious fascination. How else to explain the arrival of a giant recreation of the doomed vessel in the less-than-oceanic confines of the American South? This is the unlikely scene that greets visitors to the Tennessee town of Pigeon Forge, as a model version of the ship goes on show. Standing 100 feet tall and three decks high, this 50 per cent scale replica of the famous ship's front bow is set to attract nearly one million visitors this year. Costing £16million and taking over one year to build, the Titanic of Pigeon Forge is billed as the world's largest museum attraction. Built to include a 30-foot tall replica of the infamous iceberg off the ship's starboard bow, the 30,000 square foot museum was opened in April of this year to celebrate the 2,208 passengers and crew who died on April 15th 1912. The second such museum of its kind in the United States, the Pigeon Forge Titanic has an identical sister ship in Branson Missouri. 'This museum is not a thrill ride or Hollywood style museum,' said Mary Kellogg-Joslyn, the Titanic Museum Attractions owner. 'It is an interactive experience that brings in all elements of the famous and tragic Titanic story for families to experience.' On entering the front foyer, guests part with £13 for entry and are presented with a boarding pass that has the name of one of the deceased from the ill-fated voyage. And on entry into the main ship are confronted with an incredible £675,000 exact recreation of the White Star liners Grand Staircase. 'We have 75 employees here who are dressed as part of the period,' said Mrs Kellogg-Joslyn. 'So we have stewards and ships officers all who are in character and who are on hand for information about the ships and its sinking. 'They will even jokingly re-direct you if you try to enter our first class area if you are found to have a third class ticket.' Inside the ship are up to 400 artefacts from the original Titanic, but as Mrs Kellogg-Joslyn points out, none are recovered from the wreck which was located in 1985, two miles under the stormy mid-Atlantic. 'We have White Star cutlery and tea sets from the company that built the ship in Belfast in 1910,' said Mrs Kellogg-Joslyn. 'And we even have a tooth from a second class passenger who had it removed after she was rescued because she suffered tooth ache whilst on the ship. 'Our most impressive display is the life-jacket of Madeline Astor, the American heiress and millionaire who was rescued from the sinking vessel.' The original Titanic museum in Branson is 13,000 square feet smaller than this new version and as such, Mrs Kellogg-Joslyn expects visitor number to almost double. 'We have a replica third class cabin that has four bunks inside and shows the conditions that the majority of those who died in the sinking were living in before it hit the iceberg,' said Mrs Kellogg-Joslyn. 'There is an approximation of the bridge which we have looking out to a starry night sky, so as to help visitors appreciate visibility that night. 'And we also have installed a section where you can place your hand inside a tank of water which is at -2 (28f). The temperature the sea was when the ship sank. 'That caused the majority of the deaths as it was impossible to last more than 15 minutes in that water.' Of course, James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster film of the same name is not far away. 'We have first class cabin parlour that is the same design as the one where Leonardo DiCaprio drew Kate Winslet's portrait when they were Jack and Rose,' said Mrs Kellogg-Joslyn. 'People instantly recognise that.' In addition to the interactive features are three lengths of decking which simulate the differing angles that the ship slipped to as it sunk beneath the waves. 'We hope people enjoy this attraction and remember that even though the Titanic never made it here to America it still fascinates.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1288925/The-Titanic-Tennessee-Replica-doomed-liner-opens-Pigeon-Forge.html#ixzz0rigPSqFr
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02 Apr 2010	James Cameron To Raise The Titanic In 3D
James Cameron has confirmed he is bringing back his hit film Titanic to cinemas - but this time it will be in 3D. The director plans to raise the 1997 Oscar-winning film in spring 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary of the sailing of the ship. The movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, was the highest grossing film of all time until it was overtaken by Cameron's latest epic Avatar. Cameron is warning the effects will not be as spectacular as Avatar: "It's never going to look as good as if you shot it in 3D. But think of it as a sort of 2.8D". Not content with re-releasing Titanic, Cameron is also considering getting Avatar out for a second run as well. The film has already made billions of dollars worldwide but Cameron believes there is still more cash to be made. "It's kind of gotten stomped out (of cinemas) because of Alice in Wonderland," he said. "The word we're getting back from exhibitors is we probably left a couple of hundred million dollars on the table as a result." The director is thinking about re-releasing Avatar this autumn, possibly with new footage. Cameron, though admits audiences may not want to see a 10-month-old film. "The question is (whether) the appetite is still going to be there after the summer glut of movies," Cameron added. "We're going to assess that. We're talking about maybe adding in additional footage and doing something creative."
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