At 08:47 PM 8/6/2010 Friday, Max Wellhouse wrote: >Would this have been 80 years ago and not 65? Even not counting the >leap years I would think this to be off by some. Yah, we old fahts believe what we hear, not realizing that the story was originally done some years ago when James Cameron was still alive and talking (he died in '06). I've never been able to add reliably, and this week seems worse than most. I realized it wasn't 65, totted it up on my fingers and came up with 70... :-/ Fascinating story though, if you can listen to it on NPR. Almost all of it is told by people who were present at the time, including Cameron, the survivor. And if you've never heard Billie Holliday sing Strange Fruit, it will break your heart. d |
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