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OTD 159 years ago:

The SS Sultana, dangerously overcrowded with returning Union soldiers, many of whom starving, sick, and wounded from poor conditions in southern prisons, exploded on the Mississippi from a faulty boiler. She caught fire and began to sink. 961 crew, passengers, and soldiers, both Union and Confederate, died that night. The explosion was caused by quick, incompetent repairs to a buckled pipe in the boiler room , and greed. May those 961 live who burned and drowned, who would never see their loved ones again, rest in peace.

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OTD 38 years ago:

The Chernobyl nuclear plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown.

30 were killed immediately following the disaster, and the area will remain uninhabitable for the next 20,000 years.

May the 30 killed rest in peace.

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Silly little comic I made

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Why are you such a smart-a^s?

THE MF’S I GREW UP WATCHING/PLAYING

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I’d like to place a loan…..

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A few of the many postcards I’ve gotten since I’ve last shown off posted some.

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Today in history - the RMS Titanic would have set sail from New York back to Southampton. If only...

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Anyone: Hey (asks about a special interest of mine)? Me: Becomes an unskippable cutscene

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you know what really gets my goat?

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If I’m correct that’s the SS Anne right??? Been a while since I’ve seen the 97 series but I do recall that it didn’t go well for the Anne…..

IS THAT A CUNARD FUNNEL IN THE POKEMON ANIME?!?!?!?!.!.!?!?!

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OTD 112 years ago:

RMS Carpathia docked in New York with 705 unexpected passengers

The Carpathia was met by hundreds of friends, family members wanting to find out what happened to their loved ones, and many reporters trying to get firsthand reports of the disaster.

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On this day, 112 years ago:

RMS Titanic goes down, taking the lives of 1,496 people. The world is forever changed.

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OTD 112 years ago:

RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and began sinking.

At 2:20 AM the following morning, she would go down, taking the lives of 1,496 men, women, and children.

May they never be forgotten.

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The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

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OTD 112 years ago:

Titanic left her home for the very last time. She was headed for New York

This photo is believed to be one of if not the last photo taken of the Titanic.

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OTD 112 years ago Titanic departed Southampton on her one and only voyage. She made it to Cherbourg several hours later.

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The moon