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In this April 10, 1912, file photo, the Titanic departs Southampton, England, on its maiden Atlantic voyage. April 15, 2012, is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, just five days after it left Southampton on its maiden voyage to New York.
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Eloise Hughes Smith was a Titanic survivor who was from Huntington.
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In this April 10, 1912, file photo, the Titanic departs Southampton, England, on its maiden Atlantic voyage. April 15, 2012, is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, just five days after it left Southampton on its maiden voyage to New York.
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In this April 10, 1912, file photo, the Titanic departs Southampton, England, on its maiden Atlantic voyage. April 15, 2012, is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, just five days after it left Southampton on its maiden voyage to New York.
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In this April 10,1912, photo made available by the Library of Congress, Harold Bride, surviving wireless operator of the Titanic, with feet bandaged, is carried up the ramp of a ship. April 15, 2012, is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, just five days after it left Southampton on its maiden voyage to New York.
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In this April 1912 file photo, crowds gather around the bulletin board of the New York American newspaper in New York, where the names of people rescued from the sinking Titanic are displayed. It was a news story that would change the news. From the moment that a brief Associated Press dispatch relayed the wireless distress call _ "Titanic ... reported having struck an iceberg. The steamer said that immediate assistance was required" _ reporters and editors scrambled. In ways that seem familiar today, they adapted a dawning newsgathering technology and organized saturation coverage and managed to cover what one authority calls "the first really, truly international news event where anyone anywhere in the world could pick up a newspaper and read about it."
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This April 15, 1912, photo on display in the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver shows a life boat which rescued Molly Brown from the sinking Titanic. A few blocks from Colorado's state Capitol -- over 1700 miles from the Atlantic Ocean and a mile above sea level -- is a museum dedicated to a woman eclipsed by legend following the sinking of the Titantic. The "unsinkable Molly Brown" moved into this stone Victorian home after she and her husband struck it rich at a gold mine in Colorado's mountains, nearly 20 years before she boarded the Titanic because it was the first boat she could get back home to visit her ailing grandson.
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This May 29, 1912, photograph on display at the Molly Brown Museum shows Mrs. J.J. "Molly" Brown presenting a trophy cup award to Capt. Arthur Henry Rostron for his service in the rescue of the passengers on Titanic that sunk April 15, 1912.
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In this undated file image made available by the Library of Congress the Olympic, right, and the Titanic are surrounded by scaffolding during construction in a shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. April 15, 2012, is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, just five days after it left Southampton on its maiden voyage to New York.
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This undated photo provided by Ralph White shows the bow of the Titanic at rest on the bottom of the North Atlantic, about 400 miles southeast of Newfoundland. April 15, 2012 is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, just five days after it left Southampton on its maiden voyage to New York.
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This May 31, 1911, photo provided by the Library of Congress, shows the hull of the S.S. Titanic. under construction in dry dock. The tragic sinking of the Titanic nearly a century ago can be blamed on low grade rivets that the ship's builders used on some parts of the ill-fated liner, two experts on metals conclude in a new book.
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This photo released by the Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode Island shows the skylight frame, from either the grand staircase or the aft staircase of the luxury liner Titanic, resting on the sea floor near the stern debris field of the Titanic on June 6, 2004. Dr. Robert Ballard, the man who found the remains of the ocean liner Titanic nearly two decades ago has returned to the site and is lamenting the damage done by visitors and souvenir hunters.
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In this photo released Christies Auction House in New York, three artifacts from a crew member o f the R.M.S. Carpathia, a ship that was instrumental in rescuing survivors of the R.M.S. Titanic after it hit an iceberg and sank in 1912, are shown. In the upper left is a bronze medallion commissioned by Titanic survivor, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and given to crew members for the Carpathia in gratitude for their part in the rescue. These are among items being offered at auction by Christies in its Ocean Liner Auction on Thursday, June 1, 2006, in New York.
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This July 22, 2009, image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc. shows the 17-ton section of the RMS Titanic that was recovered from the ocean floor during an expeditions to the site of the tragedy, on display. The piece along with 5,000 other artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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This October 19, 2011, image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc. shows a cherub that once adorned the grand staircase of the RMS Titanic which was recovered from the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the tragedy, on display. The piece along with 5,000 other artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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This October 19, 2011, image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc. shows a ships telegraph from the RMS Titanic which was recovered from the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the tragedy. The piece along with 5,000 other artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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This October 19, 2011, image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc. shows a ring from the RMS Titanic which was recovered from the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the tragedy. The piece along with 5,000 other artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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This October 19, 2011, image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc. shows a porthole from the RMS Titanic which was recovered from the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the tragedy. The piece along with 5,000 other artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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This April 2, 2010, image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc., shows the bow of the RMS Titanic on the ocean floor during an expeditions to the site of the tragedy. 5,000 artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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This October 19, 2011, image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc. shows a chandalier from the RMS Titanic which was recovered from the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the tragedy. The piece along with 5,000 other artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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This August 16, 2011, image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc. shows a hat from the RMS Titanic which was recovered from the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the tradegy. The piece along with 5,000 other artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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This October 19, 2011, image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc., shows a bracelet from the RMS Titanic which was recovered from the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the tragedyy. The piece along with 5,000 other artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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This October 19, 2011, image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc., shows a plate and cup from the RMS Titanic which was recovered from the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the tradegy. The piece along with 5,000 other artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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This September 12, 2008, image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc., shows one of the propellers of the RMS Titanic on the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the tradegy. 5,000 artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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This September 1, 2009 image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc., shows a ships telegraph from the RMS Titanic on the ocean floor during an expeditions to the site of the tradegy. 5,000 artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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This 1998 image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc., shows a 17-ton portion of the hull of the RMS Titanic as it is lifted to the surface during an expedition to the site of the tradegy. The piece along with 5,000 other artifacts will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship.
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A bollard is illuminated by Alvin on the submerged hull of the sunken Titanic in 1986. Alvin is a manned submersible vehicle used during the exploration of the wreckage.
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Large icicle-like structures hang from the side of the Titanic seen in one of 12 color slides released Friday, July 19, 1986 by officials of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Robert Ballard, the expedition leader who led the group that discovered the Titanic's remains last September, said in a ship-to-shore radio report, " coming up on the side of the ship you can see these iron-sicles that hand down like giant icicles of rust."
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Two bollards, used to secure mooring lines, and a railing on the star board side of the Luxury liner Titanic's bow, can be seen in the photograph released in Washington Wednesday, July 30, 1986. Remotely operated cameras deployed from a manned submersible made a 2 1/2 hour descent to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean permitting human eyes to see the sunken liner, some 400 miles southeast of Newfound land.
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This photo released in Washington on Wednesday July 30, 1986 shows a cargo crane extending beyond the starboard-side hull of the Titanic's stern section. The section was missing when the wreckage was discovered last September by a joint French-American expedition. The section was located during one of the many passes over the ship made by the remotely operated camera sled Angus.
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An officer's cabin window on the Titanic's boat deck starboard side is shown in this photo released in Washington Wednesday, July 30, 1986. Alvin, a three-person manned sumersible surveyed the wreckage of the supposedly unsinkable line, giving the world the first close-up look at the ship since it struck an iceberg on its 1912 maiden voyage.
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A 21-ton section of the hull from the Titanic lies on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland in this Aug. 12, 1996, photo. A commercial expedition to raise the section failed in the middle of the night when the nylon lines being used to lift it snapped and the chunk of steel dropped 2 1/2 miles back to the bottom.
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Suspended from a chain, a 13-ton of slab of the hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is tilted upright Sunday, Aug. 25, 1996, by diesel-filled salvage bags. Salvagers hope to raise the section to the surface Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1996. More than 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers and crew on board died when the Titanic sank 84 years ago.
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This is a photo of the bow of the RMS Titanic, which sank off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. The Nauticus maritime museum in Norfolk, Va., began displaying 32 artifacts recovered in August from the ship's wreckage 400 miles south of Newfoundland, in a display title "Titanic: The Expedition,'' running through March 31.
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This undated photo provided by Bonhams, London shows a commemorative medal awarded to crew members of the RMS Carpathia, which saved more than 700 people after the Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic, on April 14, 1912, and sunk on April 15, which fetched 1,875 pounds (2,250 euro/$3,000) when it was sold at Bonhams in London Tuesday April 3, 2012. The commemorative medal bears the inscription: 'Presented to the Captain Officers and Crew of RMS Carpathia in recognition of gallant and heroic service from the Survivors of the SS Titanic.
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Curator Dawn Littler holds the only known surviving first class ticket from the Titanic, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool Thursday March 29, 2012. The ticket, which belonged to Reverend Stuart Holden, is on display at the exhibition "Titanic and Liverpool: The Untold Story," which marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship. Reverend Holden cancelled his trip aboard the Titanic after his wife fell ill the day before they were due to set sail.
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Curator Dawn Littler holds the only known surviving first class ticket from the Titanic, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool England Thursday March 29, 2012. The ticket, which belonged to Reverend Stuart Holden, is on display at the exhibition "Titanic and Liverpool: The Untold Story," which marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship. Reverend Holden cancelled his trip aboard the Titanic after his wife fell ill the day before they were due to set sail. A portrait of the Reverend Holden is seen at rear.
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This image provided by the New York Times shows its April 16, 1912, front page coverage of the Titanic disaster. The largest ship afloat at the time, the Titanic sank in the north Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. It was a news story that would change the news. From the moment that a brief Associated Press dispatch relayed the wireless distress call _ "Titanic ... reported having struck an iceberg. The steamer said that immediate assistance was required" _ reporters and editors scrambled. In ways that seem familiar today, they adapted a dawning newsgathering technology and organized saturation coverage and managed to cover what one authority calls "the first really, truly international news event where anyone anywhere in the world could pick up a newspaper and read about it."
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This Tuesday, April 3, 2012, photo shows index cards from The Associated Press Corporate Archive in New York listing stories written by the wire service about the Titanic. It was a news story that would change the news. From the moment that a brief Associated Press dispatch relayed the wireless distress call _ "Titanic ... reported having struck an iceberg. The steamer said that immediate assistance was required" _ reporters and editors scrambled. In ways that seem familiar today, they adapted a dawning newsgathering technology and organized saturation coverage and managed to cover what one authority calls "the first really, truly international news event where anyone anywhere in the world could pick up a newspaper and read about it."
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