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4 unusual facts about Lusitania


Alan Sondheim

Sondheim's books include the anthology Being on Line: Net Subjectivity (Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988), .

British propaganda during World War I

British propagandists were able to use the sinking of the Lusitania as atrocity propaganda, as a result of a commemorative medal privately struck by German artist Karl Goetz a year later.

Gallaecian language

The classical authors Pomponius Mela and Pliny the Elder wrote about the Celtic and non-Celtic populations of Gallaecia and Lusitania but several modern scholars have postulated Lusitanian and Gallaecian as a single archaic Celtic language.

Herbert Lieberman

Liberman's mother was an orphan who fled Romania, and came over to America in an ocean liner called the Lusitania.


Bill O'Herlihy

In 1965 he made his first television broadcast in a programme commemorating the sinking of the Lusitania off the Cork coast.

Castro Verde

Turdetani, Roman and Arab peoples left behind several markers in the lands, although its settlements were primarily the consequence of Lusitanian castros that dotted the landscape.

Cloete

It adopted his name following his death in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915.

Coronus

Coronus, a deity of the Lusitanian mythology, in the cultural area of Lusitania (in the territory of modern Galicia and Extremadura (Spain) and Portugal)

Disjunct distribution

This kind of disjunct distribution of a species, such that it occurs in Iberia and in Ireland, without any intermediate localities, is usually called "Lusitanian" (named after the Roman Province Lusitania, corresponding to modern day Portugal).

Elsie Ferguson

She also may have consented to films because she no longer had the protection of her beloved Broadway employers Henry B. Harris, who died on the Titanic and Charles Frohman, who perished on the Lusitania in May 1915.

Ernst Graf zu Reventlow

He furiously attacked Germany's leaders for a supposed inclination to yield to the United States' demands for respect of its rights after the sinking of the Lusitania, and the Tageszeitung was suspended 25 June 1915.

Eulalia of Mérida

Eulalia of Mérida was a young Roman Christian martyred in Emerita, the capital of Lusitania (modern Mérida in Spain), conventionally during the persecution under Diocletian and Maximian.

Falaba

Leon Thrasher, an American citizen, died on the Falaba, and his body was found after the Lusitania sank (Thrasher incident).

George Collingridge

He was born in Oxfordshire, England, educated in Paris, served in the Papal Zouaves (alongside his brother Alfred, who died in the Battle of Mentana), and migrated to Australia in 1879 aboard the Lusitania (not the ship of the same name that sank in 1915).

George Oakes

Born George Washington Ochs, he legally added the surname "Oakes" in 1915 out of outrage at the sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-boat.

George Salis-Schwabe

Gladys married British businessman Paul Crompton and died with him and their six children in the 7 May 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

George Sterling Ansel Ryerson

Mary Crowther Ryerson and daughter Laura were passengers aboard the Lusitania when it was sunk off the Irish coast in May 1915.

German Type U 139 submarine

The famous Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière commanded U-139, the first of the class, and named the submarine Korvettenkapitän Schweiger, after Walther Schwieger, who had sunk the RMS Lusitania in 1915.

Great Phenol Plot

Although the United States remained officially neutral until April 1917, it was increasingly throwing its support to the Allies through trade, especially after the May 1915 sinking of the British ocean liner Lusitania (which conveyed American passengers as well as munitions) by a German U-boat.

H.D.

She had lost her brother in action, while her husband suffered effects of combat experiences, and she believed that the onslaught of the war indirectly caused the death of her child with Aldington: she believed it was her shock at hearing the news about the RMS Lusitania that directly caused her miscarriage.

Hudson, Illinois

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915), known for his essay "A Message of Garcia" and founding the Roycroft community; grew up in Hudson and died in the sinking of the Lusitania

Jimmy Hare

During World War I he documented American, British, Canadian, and Italian soldiers, St Dunstan's home for blind soldiers, the Greek harbor town of Thessaloniki, the military hospital at the Hall of Mechanics at the Grand Palais in Paris, people fleeing Antwerp, funerals of the dead from the RMS Lusitania, and the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine, among other subjects.

Luso

A prefix meaning Portuguese (after the Roman province of Lusitania, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal)

Naval Air Station Whiddy Island

The base was used by flying boats which monitored the area south of Kinsale (where the RMS Lusitania had been torpedoed) for submarine activity.

Rechila

The provinces of Lusitania, Baetica, and Carthaginiensis were subjected to the Suevi with the exception of the Levante and the Mediterranean seaboard.

Ruse of war

The use of the American flag flown on the RMS Lusitania while crossing through the Irish Sea to avoid attack by German submarines during the First World War was criticized in debate in the United States House of Representatives by Republican Eben Martin of South Dakota, who stated that "the United States cannot be made a party to a ruse of war where the national colors are involved".

Segga

Following Reccared's conversion from Arianism to Catholicism, a conspiracy, led by Sunna, the Arian bishop of Mérida, arose to place the Arian Segga on the throne and probably also to kill the Catholic Méridan bishop, Masona, and the duke of the province of Lusitania, Claudius.

Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet

During World War I, Meyer wrote to The Times expressing his disapproval of the tactics used by the Germans in the war, including the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, prompted by a suggestion by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero that Britons of German origin should speak out publicly.

The Carpet from Bagdad

The film is now mostly lost, although one badly damaged reel was salvaged from the RMS Lusitania in 1982.

The Gay Sisters

When their mother dies on the sunken RMS Lusitania, and their army officer father, Penn Gaylord, is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves—never realizing their half billion dollar inheritance because of legal system gimmickry.

The Unafraid

Rita Jolivet completed this film just before boarding the Lusitania on its final voyage.

Total War: Rome II

The campaign map for Rome II spans from Bactria (Afghanistan) to Lusitania (Portugal) and from Caledonia (Scotland) to Garamantia (in the Sahara).

Valentine Wiggin

She also revives the original Demosthenes persona, writing inflammatory, passionate diatribes against Starways Congress' current plan of uprooting Lusitania and possibly exterminating the Pequeninos.

West Sayville, New York

In 1915 the transmitter allegedly relayed a message from the German Embassy to "get Lucy", referring to the RMS Lusitania which was sunk on May 15.


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