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It was cocky and overconfident to call the Titanic "unsinkable" but one thing that's overlooked is that she was genuinely really, unusually solid. She could float even with 4 compartments fully flooded, which even a lot of modern day ships can't do.
And it's not like they were wrong about her being solid! Olympic, her identical sister ship, survived being torpedoed and then running over the U-Boat that fired that torpedo. Those ships were solid.
It's very clear that absolutely no other ship in 1912 would have been able to survive that collision, and it's a testament to the quality of the ship that she didn't sink in a few minutes Empress of Ireland style. Part of what makes the Titanic such a tragic story is that it isn't a group of rich idiots locking themselves in a shoddy iron barrel to go 4km underwater. It was 2200 people, most of whom were poor immigrants, on a reliable ship on a commonly-made journey, and then something went horribly, unpredictably wrong.
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I think at one point or another everyone should become slightly obsessed with a show (preferably 10+ years old) that 99% of their mutuals don't care about. it builds character. keeps you humble
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So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.
Matilda (1996) dir. Danny Devito
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Christine Baranski (and Julie Walters and Meryl Streep) - "Dancing Queen" (Mamma Mia!, 2008)
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Happy Pride Month everyone! No silence, no retreat. Fight, protect, celebrate!
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NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system







Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

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long term goals and ambitions: not waking up tired
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starwars The Mandalorian and Grogu’s Pedro Pascal reunites with Grogu during Star Wars Celebration.
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Aging
Meryl Streep once said: "Aging is not for the weak. One day you wake up and realize that your youth is gone, but along with it, so go insecurity, haste, and the need to please... You learn to walk more slowly, but with greater certainty. You say goodbye without fear, and you cherish those who stay. Aging means letting go, it means accepting, it means discovering that beauty was never in our skin... but in the story we carry inside us."
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"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there
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Legends of Broadway
Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Dick van Dyke and more legends of Broadway reprise their most memorable characters, for Vulture Photographs by Mark Seliger Interviews by Rebecca Alter, Julia Edelstein, Jason P. Frank, Rachel Handler, Devon Ivie, Molly Langmuir, Jackson McHenry, Mary Melton, Zach Schiffman, and Matthew Schneier
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