Almost exactly 100 years ago, the Titanic met its doom by striking an iceberg – the infamous Titanic iceberg, which could itself be properly called a titanic iceberg – in the Atlantic Ocean. Most people today know this much, and often a lot more, about the 1912 Titanic iceberg collision, even though it happened so long ago. This is the nature of great historical tragedies. For the most part, they tend not to be forgotten (nor should they be), and this is true to such an extent that we even remember
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