William Thomas Stead

On leaving the Pall Mall he founded the monthly Review of Reviews (1890), and his abundant energy and facile pen found scope in many other directions in journalism of an advanced humanitarian type. He started cheap reprints (Penny Poets and Prose Classics, etc.), conducted a spiritualistic organ, called Borderland (1893-1897), in which he gave full play to his interest in psychical research; and became an enthusiastic supporter of the peace movement, and of many other movements, popular and unpopular ...

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1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). 1912 - Events. 1912 - January-March. January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China. January 5 - Prague Party Conference January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. January 17 - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the ...

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Dilke had, both before and after his first marriage, been the lover of Ellen, wife of Eustace Smith and his brother's mother-in-law. That fact notwithstanding, in July 1885 he was the subject of accusations that he had seduced Ellen's daughter Victoria in the first year of her marriage to Donald Crawford MP. This was supposed to have occured in 1882 when Ellen was 19 and she claimed that the affair had continued on an irregular basis for the next two and a half years. The accusations had a devastating effect on Dilke's political career, leading to his eventual loss of his parl ...

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The ship began its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, bound for New York City, New York, on Wednesday, April 10, 1912, with Captain Edward J. Smith in command. As the Titanic left its berth it passed many immobilised ships which were laid up due to a coal strike. The powerful suction created by the ship's propellers caused the liner New York, which was docked nearby alongside the Oceanic (the large number of immobilised ships in Southampton at the time and the absence of sufficient space to accommodate them meant t ...

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Darlington started life as an Anglo-Saxon settlement on the Skerne river. It now has an attractive historic market area in the town centre and St Cuthbert's church is one of the most important and impressive Early English churches in the north of England. Darlington is known for its associations with the birth of railways. This is celebrated in the town at Darlington Railway Centre & Museum (see http://www.drcm.org.uk). The world's first-ever passenger rail journey was between Shildon (via Darlington) and nearby Stockton-on-Tees o ...

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1912 - January-March. January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China. January 5 - Prague Party Conference January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. January 17 - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the South Pole. January 23 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. February 8 - Mexican Revolution - Military rebellion against the rule of F ...

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Regular newspaper publication dates from the mid 17th century. Prior to then it was believed that the 'reckless' reporting of news might endanger the Crown and the country. A limit was placed on the printing of news other than of events abroad, natural disasters, royal declarations and crimes; there were weekly corantos published from the 1620s containing these kinds of news. Publication grew following the general ...

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The sinking of Titanic has been the basis for many novels describing fictionalised events on board the ship. Many reference books about the disaster have also been written since Titanic sank, the first of these appearing within months of the sinking. Survivors like Second Officer Lightoller and passenger Jack Thayer have written books describing their experiences. Some like Walter Lord, who wrote the popular A Night to Remember, did independent research and interviews to descr ...

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Darlington Dog Show has been a Championship event since 1969, and is ranked second only to Crufts. On 14th July 2005 following the 7 July 2005 London bombings, areas of Darlington town centre were closed while controlled explosions were carried out. The first incident was reported around 1745 BST, when a rucksack was seen in a phone box in Northgate, which led to evacuations of nearby shops and offices. Three controlled explosions were carried by a unit from Catterick Garrison, but Durham police said the bag only contained clothing and personal items. At around the same time staff from a nearby fire station spotted two men acting su ...

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He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society. He became a Liberal Member of Parliament in 1868. ...

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Titanic was at the time one of the worst maritime disasters in history in terms of loss of life, a similar disaster of this scale having never happened out on the heavily travelled North Atlantic route. It remains the worst civilian maritime disaster in British history. However, Titanic's death toll was exceeded by the explosion and sinking of the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River in 1865, where 1,700 died. The worst peacetime maritime disaster happened on December 21, 1987, when the passenger ferry Do ...

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RMS Titanic - Use of SOS. Despite popular belief, the sinking of Titanic was not the first time the internationally recognised Morse code distress signal "SOS" was used. The SOS signal was first proposed at the International Conference on Wireless Communication at Sea in Berlin in 1906. It was ratified by the international community in 1908 and had been in widespread use since then. The SOS signal was, however, rarely used by British wireless operators, who preferred the older CQD code. First Wireless Oper ...

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As stamp, paper and other duties were progressively reduced from the 1830s onwards (and all duties on newspapers were gone by 1855) there was a massive growth in overall circulation as major events and improved communications developed the public's need for information. The Daily Universal Register began life in 1785 and was later to become known as The Times from 1788. This was the most significant newspaper of the first half of the 19th century, but from around 1860 there were a number of more strongly competitiv ...

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History of British newspapers, History of British newspapers - Origins, History of British newspapers - Nineteenth century, History of British newspapers - Twentieth century, History of British newspapers - Major newspapers still in circulation

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1912 - January-February. January 1 - Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988) January 3 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005) January 6 - Jacques Ellul, French philosopher (d. 1994) January 7 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988) January 8 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992) January 19 - Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986) January 21 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel ...

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Many scientists, including Robert Ballard, are concerned that visits by tourists in submersibles and the recovery of artefacts are hastening the decay of the wreck. Underwater microbes have been eating away at Titanic's iron since the ship sank, but because of the extra damage visitors have caused, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates that "the hull and structure of the s ...

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WW I saw the rise of the 'press barons' initially the Harmsworth Brothers (later Viscounts Northcliffe and Rothermere) and the Berry Brothers. A trend continued between the wars when the WW I barons were joined by Max Aitken (later Lord Beaverbrook) and the newspaper industry took on an appearance similar to today's. The post-war period was marked by the emergence of tabloid newspapers (or red tops), notably with ...

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The Titanic was a White Star Line ocean liner built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, and was designed to compete with rival company Cunard Line's Lusitania and Mauretania. Titanic, along with its Olympic class sisters, Olympic and the soon to be built Britannic (originally named Gigantic [3]), were intended to be the largest, most luxurious ships ever to operate. Tita ...

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As news of the disaster spread, many people were shocked that Titanic could sink with such great loss of life despite all of its technological advances. Newspapers were filled with stories and descriptions of the disaster and were eager to get the latest information. Many charities were set up to help the victims and their families, many of whom lost their sole breadwinner, or, in the case of third-class survivors, lost everything they owned. The people of Southampton were deeply affected by the sinking. According to the Hampshire ...

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The idea of finding the wreck of Titanic, and even raising the ship from the ocean floor, had been around since shortly after the ship sank. No attempts were successful until September 1, 1985, when a joint American-French expedition, led by Jean-Louis Michel of Ifremer and Dr. Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, sailing on the Research Vessel Knorr, located the wreck using the video camera sled Argo. It was found at a depth of 2 miles (3,800 m), south-east of Newfoundland at See also:

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