When it comes to Titanic, the steel used was actually good quality steel at the time, Harland and Wolf were renowned shipbuilders and thus used quality steel for 1912 standards, the myth that Titanic was constructed using a lower grade of steel comes from samples taken from the wreck which were compared to modern steel samples which are a lot more refined and fewer imperfections, plus the steel has been sitting on the ocean floor for almost a century therefore was not a fair comparison. The crew was not inexperienced, many of them especially ones in higher positions had worked for the white star line for years up to this point. The Titanic also didn't ignore ice warnings, they did divert their course to take a more southerly route to avoid icebergs, thus they had to maintain top speed to make up for the diversion in the course.
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The Titanic facts were not facts. The steel of the Titanic was not brittle. It didn't break when it hit the iceberg. It crumpled like a car in a car crash and opened seams that allowed water in. Steel plating is not going to hold its shape when 52,000 tons slam into a solid object at close to 20 knots. Sure it carried fewer life boats than passenger capacity. It carried more life boats than regulations of the time required. Not slowing down when receiving ice warnings, standard practice of the time.
The Titanic actually had more lifeboats than what was legally required, it was only required to have 16 but had 20; Was originally planned to have 48.
He researched so much into the Titanic, just to spread misinformation on the materials, and on the professionalism of the crew. The crew wanted to do the right thing always, it was the designer arguing with the captain to push the limits.
Giles Corey yelled, “more weight!” or something like that while they kept adding stones on to of him. He was a real bad ass.
What people did believe in the Middle Ages was that the Earth was the center of the Universe (geocentric), until the time of Copernicus and others, who first postulated that the Earth revolved around the sun and was not the center (heliocentric). The invention of the telescope and development of celestial mechanics helped solidify this.
As a European, I actually never heard of Nero playing the fiddle. Over here, it's rather the myth that he sang and played the lyre while Rome was ablaze.
The number of lifeboats aboard the Titanic wasn't simply mere carelessness or aesthetic license. Up until 1912, most ships didn't have the requisite number of lifeboats to save every passenger, as was common maritime regulation for the period. I read somewhere (I can't remember where) that the lifeboats in use were meant to ferry passengers to rescue ships and make return trips until as many lives were saved as possible. They (apparently) were not, however, meant to immediately accommodate every passenger at once.
Another myth about the witch hunts is the belief that they were common in the Middle Ages. At that time, the Church actually taught that witchcraft was nothing more than heathen superstition, so believing that a witch could have powers was viewed as being just as sinful as trying to be one yourself. Executing someone for witchcraft was a capital offense itself, although there would still be penalties for heresy and apostasy. There was one major exception, and that was the Carthars. Charges of witchcraft were used to build up support for their slaughter, and that carried over into the Reformation and Counter-Reformation when heresy and witchcraft were treated as one in the same.
1:01 thing about the stew is a myth, the crew did slow down contrary to popular belief, and it was normal at the time to not have enough lifeboats as it was assumed that the life boats would be used to transport people from one ship to another rather than them actually being the escape plan
You missed a few things with the Titanic. 1. The lookouts didn’t have the key to the room where the binoculars were kept. 2. The communications officer sent a rude message to the nearest ship and the second nearest ship was 4 hours away. And 3. The ship turned slightly right to avoid the iceberg. If it had continued going straight, some crew members would have been killed but the ship would’ve stayed afloat long enough for help to arrive
In French, the quote attributed to Marie Antoinette is "Qu’ils mangent de la brioche" - it's bread (brioche) in the quote, not cake, which would be "gateau". It's a fancier bread, but not cake. Not that she said it, though.
lol!! “He needed a heart-warming story about honesty, so he made one up.” That made me giggle!
The myth about Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned is a myth itself. It is derived from Tacitus explaining that Suetonius's story about Nero playing the lyre while Rome burned, was indeed a myth, and that Nero actually returned to Rome to help organize relief efforts. It seems the story of this myth was imported to modern times and transformed into a "fiddle" to make it sound even more absurd, so they could point out that fiddles didn't exist in Roman times.
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1:52 There are still plenty of complete idiots that believe the earth is flat for some reason, having been locked away in their parents basements and never traveling on a plane or boat I suppose.
There was nothing wrong with the steel used in Titanic's construction. The rivets that held it together may have been faulty, but not the steel itself. And Titanic had four smokestacks, not three.
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