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«…the ballet entitled The Last Chinaman From the #Titanic portrays the six Chinese men who survived the sinking in 1912.

One man, Fang Lang, was found clutching a floating door, likely inspiration for the movie scene starring Leo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet.

However, when the six reached #EllisIsland, they were barred from entering the US & denied medical care… »

Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. The words inspired a #ballet

theguardian.com/stage/2025/apr

The Guardian · Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. Those words inspired a balletBy Guardian staff reporter

"My Heart Will Go On" is a song performed by Canadian singer #CelineDion, used as the #theme for the 1997 film #Titanic. It was composed by #JamesHorner, with lyrics by #WillJennings, and produced by Horner, #WalterAfanasieff and #SimonFranglen. It was released as a single internationally by #Columbia and #Epic on November 24, 1997, and included on Dion's album #LetsTalkAboutLove (1997) and the Titanic soundtrack.
youtube.com/watch?v=F2RnxZnubCM

in der probe gestern abend kam beim basteln an einem medley zum #titanic-soundtrack die frage auf, zu welcher jahreszeit das eigentlich damals war, das unglückliche zusammentreffen mit dem eisberg.
"vielleicht im februar?"
hm.
mal das internet fragen ... ... ..
ah: nicht februar, sondern april. genauer: in der nacht vom 14. auf den 15.4.
gut, haben wir das auch geklärt.
... ... ...
moment, was für ein datum ist heute?"
🚢📆😲
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_

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🧵 Read the alt texts of the photos above about the #yarn's history. Here you can learn more about the history of this "more glossy than silk" patent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon

This #emboidery #floss was a hype since 1905/1910 ... and we can imagine that some of the governesses who had the misfortune to be on board, used it for #embroideries in the luxury rooms of the #Titanic.

en.wikipedia.orgRayon - Wikipedia

🧵 #OTD the #Titanic sank in 1912. When I was a very small child, I knew an old woman who narrowly escaped this disaster. As the governess of a US millionaire's children, she was supposed to be travelling on the Titanic. They arrived too late in England and couldn't get tickets.

Shortly before her death, she gave me some old #yarn. I haven't dared to use it to this day because it's like travelling back in #deepTime. 113 years can feel so near.

Underwater robots took more than 700,000 images of the wreck of the Titanic, 2.36 miles (3.8km) below the surface of the Atlantic, to create a full-sized digital scan. Analysts have now studied this scan to determine a little more about what happened in the vessel's final hours. It's helped them understand the scene in detail, confirming contemporary accounts of how long engineers stayed in the boiler room to keep the ship's lights on, theorizing how a porthole window may have been broken, and getting more insights into exactly how the ship sank. "Titanic is the last surviving eyewitness to the disaster, and she still has stories to tell," Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, said to @BBCNews. More details of the analysis will be shared in a National Geographic documentary, "Titanic: The Digital Resurrection," which comes out on April 11.

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#Titanic #History @histodons #Science #Film #Documentary

flip.itTitanic digital scan reveals new details of ship's final hoursThe 3D replica corroborates eye witness accounts about what happened after the liner hit an iceberg.
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Oh, and maybe, just maybe, her husband of many years might’ve liked to know she’d been hanging onto a $250 million necklace all that time? How about her granddaughter, who was caring for her? An early retirement fund, anyone?
The real villain of Titanic? Ready for it? Not Cal, not even the iceberg—it was Rose. Still love that movie, though. #titanic #movies #villain #funny

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Yet, she held onto it for decades, on the off chance she’d end up at the wreck site again, just to chuck it into the ocean for no good reason… and croaks in his bed. Then goes and waltzes passed her husband in the afterlife to meet up with her 3-day fling!
Meanwhile, she conveniently leaves out the part where she let Jack—the “three-day love of her life”—freeze to death because she couldn’t scoot over a bit on the giant door. #titanic #movies #villain #funny