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8 unusual facts about Titanic


Liam McMahon

In 2012, McMahon had a small-arc on the drama series Titanic: Blood and Steel, featuring in five episodes of the big budget series depicting fictional events on board the Titanic.

Titanic, Saskatchewan

Originally settled by French Canadians and named Mourey for a local Catholic priest, its postmaster applied to have the name changed to Titanic in 1912, following the tragedy of the RMS Titanic earlier that year.

Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

In addition to The Rubáiyát and the painting, the player learns that Willi is a spy for the Russians and has a notebook with names of top Bolshevik leaders.

Other plots include meeting and helping the Lambeths, a wealthy couple whose marriage has deteriorated, as well as meeting with other passengers including Leyland Trask, a psychic from Boston; Reverend Edgar Troutt, a religious preacher from Sunapee, New Hampshire who is returning from an African mission in Nyasaland; and Max Seidelmann, an American freelance businessman from Philadelphia, who provides a back story and insight of varying value.

If the player manages to retrieve all four objects, history is altered with World War I, the Russian Revolution, and World War II never occurring — without The Rubáiyát and/or the diamonds, the Black Hand is not financed and their plan to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (which would have sparked World War I) fails.

Titanic: Blood and Steel

The worries portrayed among Lord Pirrie, Thomas Andrews and Dr. Muir about the Titanic being just "too big" are a great exaggeration.

Titanic: The Complete Story

The documentary was narrated by actor David McCallum and began with a quote from first-class passenger Jack Thayer.

Titanic: The Legend Goes On

The Legend of the Titanic, another Italian animated film about the Titanic


Alexander Behm

He tried to develop an iceberg detection system using reflected sound waves after the Titanic disaster on 15 April 1912.

Astrid Peth

She accompanies the Doctor (David Tennant) on a trip organised by Titanics resident historian, Mr Copper (Clive Swift), teleporting with some Titanic passengers down to Earth where she and the Doctor meet Wilfred Mott (Bernard Cribbins).

Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company

RMS Titanic - The Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company also helped to insure the RMS Titanic.

Belinda Wollaston

Most recently Belinda starred Kate McGowen in the Australian production of the Broadway musical, Titanic alongside her longtime friend and fellow musical theatre actor Hayden Tee.

Brea Olinda High School

Though not an alumnus, James Cameron, Director of such blockbuster films as Terminator 2, Avatar and Titanic lived in Brea and drove the lunch truck for BOUSD food services while writing The Abyss

Butt Memorial Bridge

The Butt Memorial Bridge is a road bridge in Augusta, Georgia dedicated to Major Archibald Willingham Butt, a victim of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Camilla Overbye Roos

She has worked with such internationally renowned directors as Lars von Trier, David Lynch, Ridley Scott and James Cameron playing Helga in Titanic (1997).

Dance Band on the Titanic

Dance Band on the Titanic is the seventh studio album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1977.(see 1977 in music).

Daniel Langlois

Softimage software was used to create 3-D effects in such films as Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Matrix, Titanic, Men in Black, Twister, Jurassic Park, The Mask and The City of Lost Children.

Demag

In 1908, they designed what was then the world's largest floating crane, built for Harland & Wolff in Belfast, which would be used for the building of the passenger liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.

Ellen Harvelle

When the angel Balthazar changes history in the sixth season episode "My Heart Will Go On" so that the Titanic never sank, Ellen is restored to life and is married to Bobby.

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.

Eric Rigler

He has been featured playing Great Highland bagpipes, Uilleann pipes and tin whistle on numerous movie soundtracks, including Titanic, Million Dollar Baby, Road to Perdition, Braveheart, Cinderella Man, Robots, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, DreamWorks's The Prince of Egypt, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and critically acclaimed South Korean TV series Jewel in the Palace.

Eva Hart

Eva Miriam Hart MBE (31 January 1905 – 14 February 1996) was a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912.

Exclusive First Editions

Gilbow was also chosen as the brand under which a series of White Star Line ocean liners were produced, the models were issued between 1998 & 2000 and depicted the Titanic, Britannic and Olympic liners in various guises, these models no doubt came about because of the huge success of the Titanic Hollywood movie released in the late 1990s.

Fortunino Matania

In 1904, Matania joined the staff of The Sphere where some of his most famous work was to appear, including his illustrations of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

Frank John William Goldsmith

Frank and his mother were rescued by the Carpathia in Collapsible C. As the Carpathia headed to New York City, Emily Goldsmith entrusted her son into the care of one of the surviving firemen from the Titanic, Samuel Collins, asking Collins if he would look after her son to get his mind off of the sinking.

History of Hampshire

Southampton has been host to many famous ships, including the Mayflower and the Titanic, the latter being crewed largely by Hampshire natives.

I Salonisti

I Salonisti is a chamber music ensemble most famous for acting as the ship's band in the 1997 James Cameron blockbuster Titanic.

Ida Straus

Alma Cuervo (1997) (Titanic) (Broadway Musical) When Ida decided to stay with her husband, they sang the song "Still."

Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology

The Institute is also the home of the Guild of Benevolence of the IMarEST, which continues the work of the fund founded for the families of the engineers of the Titanic, and which today provides help and funds for those seafarers and others who find themselves in hard times.

Jacques Futrelle

Futrelle is used as the protagonist in The Titanic Murders, a novel about two murders aboard the Titanic, by Max Allan Collins.

James Georgopoulos

The "Guns of Cinema" series also expresses his affinity for the film and television industry by photographing a number of motion picture and television cameras; which include those from Titanic, Star Wars, Thriller, James Bond, Kill Bill, and Apocalypto).

James Peterkin Alexander

Alexander died in a barber's chair of a heart attack after hearing of his friend John Hugo Ross's death on the Titanic.

Janjgir–Champa district

Janjgir has been the residence of Annie Funk, a Christian Missionary who lost her life in Titanic.

Jenette Goldstein

She also appeared as the vampire Diamondback in Near Dark (1987), Officer Meagan Shapiro in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Janelle Voight in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), the U.S.S. Enterprise-B science officer in Star Trek Generations (1994), and an Irish immigrant mother in Titanic (1997).

John Thayer

Jack Thayer (1894–1945), his son, survivor of the Titanic sinking

Lake Wissota

This would have been impossible, as the Titanic sank in 1912, three years before construction on the dam that formed Lake Wissota began.

London Nautical School

The school was founded in 1915, as a consequence of the official report into the loss of the Titanic, and today continues to be supported by the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights.

Margaret Tobin

Birth name of Margaret Brown, also known as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, American socialite, philanthropist, activist; survivor of RMS Titanic

Orrell Park

The area has historical and cultural links which include the Titanic, The Beatles and The Canadian Army Mutiny in the First World War.

Painted Skin: The Resurrection

In mainland China, Painted Skin: The Resurrection scored the highest grossing opening for a local film and the third highest opening following the 3-D re-release of Titanic (1997) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Randy Waldman

He has performed on hundreds of major studio film soundtracks including Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ice Age, The Bodyguard, Beetlejuice, Mission: Impossible, Romancing the Stone, The Abyss, and Titanic.

RMS Titanic Lifeboat No. 1

In the 2012 television series Titanic, Lady Duff Gordon (Sylvestra Le Touzel) was shown urging her secretary Laura Francatelli to get in the boat by saying, "Don't be a fool Francatelli, this boat Lifeboat isn't sinking, that one Titanic is." She was later shown telling the officer to allow some men to board, including her husband, then forcing the officer, alongside Cosmo, to lower the boat.

Ron Donachie

He is known for starring as Inspector Rebus in the BBC Radio 4 dramatizations of the Ian Rankin "Rebus" mystery novels and for his supporting roles in films Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Titanic and television series Doctor Who and Game of Thrones.

Sally Yeh

Apart from a good record track of original hits, Sally Yeh has, through the years, covered a number of Western songs, ranging from Madonna to Céline Dion by way of the Titanic theme song.

Scottish Daily News

When asked how he felt about this, he compared himself to the captain of the Titanic, thereafter becoming known as "Nathan Iceberg" (ibid).

Simultaneous death

Some wills now include Titanic clauses (named for the RMS Titanic, which caused many simultaneous deaths among testators and executors).

SpaghettiOs

The post also quickly spawned parodies, as other users edited the cartoon SpaghettiO into photos of other tragic events (such as the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Hindenburg disaster, and Titanic).

Swan Hunter

Based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, the company was responsible for some of the greatest ships of the early 20th century — most famously, the RMS Mauretania which held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, and the RMS Carpathia which rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic.

Teens in the Wild

The Irish Times reviewer Kevin Courtney noted the return of Coleman to Irish television screens as "the agony uncle to another group of troubled teenagers, this time six girls with enough collective baggage to sink the Titanic".

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Margaret Brown, American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous as one of the survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic

Walter Somers

By the last decade of the 19th century, it was delivering forgings to Admiralty specifications - a customer relationship that continued throughout World War I. Somers' company also produced parts of the anchors used on the RMS Titanic.

Watts Naval School

The pulpit was given as a memorial to B. Watson, Esq, and two stained glass windows were added in memory of Frederick Humby, an old Watts boy who lost his life in the Titanic disaster of 1912.

Widener Library

Widener Library, which opened with a solemn ceremony on June 24, 1915, commemorates Harry Elkins Widener (born January 3, 1885 in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania), a 1907 Harvard graduate, who was a book collector and victim of the Titanic disaster.

William Stead

William Thomas Stead (1849 - 1912), English journalist, victim of RMS Titanic disaster


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