Lusitania Sinking ..What impact did the Lusitania sinking have on history? I've heard that it might have been one of the reasons that America joined the war a full year later, but theres no proof.Read the source...
From Off Radar NewsThere are a number of rumours circulating in Dubai that the massive conversion plans to transform the former Cunard cruise ship QE2 into a floating hotel/conference/leisure centre have fallen...
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The Queen Elizabeth II oceanliner from the UK is about to be put into retirement. But on its last voyage it ran into some trouble off the coast of Southhampton, becoming trapped on a sandbank. The boat is set to become a floating hotel in Dubai."It was hardly the most regal...
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Missy Elliott 2.0 is all about user-generated content, crowdsourcing, and collaborative community building. No, she's not exactly developing a new mobile microblogging social networking web app, but she's still...
UPDATE December 16, 2007: Following on from last weeks news story concerning the cost of keeping failed asylum seekers in British jails, holding cells or sub-standard accommodation (see video), we now learn...
Posted at about 2am Pacific time. This is a developing story. Nothing to add yet."LONDON, England (AP) -- More than 150 people have abandoned a sinking cruise liner that struck an object in Antarctic waters, Britain's Coast Guard said.
Media reports said the ship, believed to...
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"OTTAWA (AFP) - Canadian researchers on Wednesday said they positively identified the remains of a young child who died when the RMS Titanic sank in 1912.
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The remains belong to a 19-month-old...
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"As a front liner in the business, Pamela Martin & Associates escorts counted some of Washington's wealthiest and most elite among their clientèle according to individuals and places WMR has matched to the agency's phone records from 1994 to 2000."
Cunard's longest-serving ship, the QE2, has been sold for €75mn and will become a floating hotel and museum in Dubai.
The QE2 will arrive in Dubai in 2009 and feature shopping and...
"The last liner. Once the longest. Still the fastest. She's off to India to be broken up. The BBC has said its goodbyes. OPEC, the 747 and the need to subsidise Concorde sealed her fate in 1974, despite a mutiny by the crew.
She rotted for years in Le Havre, had an...
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