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When Davos comes to its merciful end, its cadre of highly educated global elites will have accomplished nothing which improves the life of mankind.

Titanic, in full Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic, British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, during its maiden voyage, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, killing about 1,500 (see Researcher’s Note: Titanic) passengers and ship personnel. One of the most famous tragedies in modern history, it inspired numerous stories, several films, and a musical and has been the subject of much scholarship and scientific speculation. In the early 1900s the transa...

Concord Players presents Titanic: The Musical, April 29 – May 14

This year, Good Friday coincided with the anniversary of the Titanic sinking on April 15, 1912. It got me thinking about parallels, and what they would mean…

We all know that the ship's maiden voyage 110 years ago ended in tragedy. But here are some stories you might not have heard about: From how someone survived by getting drunk to the crucial role of binoculars.

Photos of the iceberg that the Titanic allegedly struck in the Atlantic Ocean were released in 2012 to mark the centenary of the disaster.

We learn about the missing key that could have saved the ship, and other interesting facts

The wreckage of the Titanic was discovered 36 years ago, on September 1, 1985.

Was this message in a bottle thrown from the Titanic hours before it sank? Note from French passenger washes up in Canada 105 years after tragedy A message in a bottle purports to have been thrown from the deck of the Titanic on April 13, 1912 The note appears to have been written by a French schoolgirl who was travelling to New York to visit family   She drowned alongside 1,500 others after liner hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton   The bottle washed up on a beach in Cana...

A new documentary exposes the harrowing story of the six Chinese mariners who survived Titanic but were vilified in the press and deported from the US just days after the sinking.  Filmmakers Arthur Jones and Steven Schwankert have made The Six, which debuted in Chinese cinemas this week, to tell the little-known story of eight third-class Chinese passengers on the ship: Ah Lam, Fang Lang, Len Lam, Cheong Foo, Chang Chip, Ling Hee, Lee Bing and Lee Ling.  After the sinking, two of the men di...