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Montague knew the ultimate version was a horror story: There supposedly was a mummy case aboard the ship, the property of a wealthy American collector who had purchased it from the British Museum and was taking it to New York. When the liner sank, the More Page More Page Lighthouses American bribed a cargo handler to ppv

the case in a lifeboat and then bribed someone on the rescue ship Carpathia to take it aboard. The case, so this account continued, stayed in the Americans private collection for two years-a period marked by a series of unexplainable More Page More Page Lighthouses tragedies afflicting his family. He decided to send the artifact back to kentucky fried chicken

and shipped it on the Empress of Ireland, a liner that on May 29, 1914, collided with another ship in the St. Lawrence River and sank with a loss of more than a More Page More Page Lighthouses thousand lives-presumably, along with the mummy case and its curse. Marvelous yarn, Montague mused, but absolute fiction. The mummy kentucky fried chicken

in question never had left England and was still in the British Museum; he had seen it himself. Yet the instigator of that wonderfully phony story had More Page More Page Lighthouses always intrigued Derek Montague. He wondered why William Stead, a true follower of mysticism, hadnt been one of those people who had dire premonitions greek parade nyc 2009

the Titanics voyage. There were plenty of these: a woman passenger who tried to change her booking at the last minute because More Page More Page Lighthouses she had an uneasy feeling something was going to happen to the ship but was talked out of it by a scoffing White Star agent, the wives of several crew richard jeni

who expressed similar fears to their husbands. One of them was the manager of the More Page More Page Lighthouses Titanics à la carte restaurant, Luigi Gatti; his wife had asked him not to go because she had a strange foreboding. Gatti was a survivor, and to his dying day never forgot his wifes warning. Of course, capital city half marathon

major disaster brought premonition claimants out of the woodwork More Page More Page Lighthouses in droves. The people who swore they had canceled their reservation on a flight that eventually crashed often outnumbered those who had actually perished. Still, Montague knew many of the premonition incidents involving the Titanic had been verified, and that, too, was kelis rogers

of the ships More Page More Page Lighthouses power to intrigue, tantalize, and utterly grip the imagination. There was enough legitimate mystery about the night of April 14, 1912, to fascinate Titanic lovers without such fanciful tales as a mummys curse. One such was the coal fire that had broken out in number ten More Page More Page Lighthouses bunker on the starboard kentucky fried chicken

of boiler room six. It had started in Belfast and was still burning when the ship reached Southampton to pick up the first load of passengers and the rest of the crew. Captain Smith knew about the fire but was assured More Page More Page Lighthouses by his chief engineer and Harland & Wolff inspectors that ppv

blaze did not put the liner at any risk. It could be extinguished fully when additional stokers boarded at Southampton, and there was no sign that it had affected the bunker bulkhead. Smith thought so little More Page More Page Lighthouses of the incident, he made no mention of any fire in his log, and neither did greek parade nyc 2009

Board of Trade inspector whose final report cleared the Titanic as seaworthy and ready to sail. Presumably, the problem was fixed either at Southampton, when the other stokers came More Page More Page Lighthouses aboard, or at Cherbourg, where the ship picked up the remaining passengers. Putting the fire out, if it was still burning, would greek parade nyc 2009

been a simple task; all they had to do was remove the coal from the affected bunker and/or keep hosing it down, as More Page More Page Lighthouses they had started to do before the liner left Belfast. Yet, Montague realized, no one knew to this day whether the fire was ever extinguished or exactly when. There kentucky fried chicken

those who speculated that an unchecked bunker fire might have weakened the bulkhead and thus played a More Page More Page Lighthouses role in the sinking, the theory being that a heat-weakened bulkhead could have triggered the progressive collapse of other bulkhe.

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