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History’s Mysteries…One More Headed to the Dustbin

April 16th, 2008 by xformed

What caused the RMS Titanic to sink so quickly?

The gCaptain Blog found something veeerrrryyyy interesting.

Note to those who think they know the “facts” of history today would be well served to know that they can’t possibly know all there is to know on the day things happened…

So, you curious mariners, engineers, and just plain curious people…go read how some archives led us to answering the question!

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