In 1820, polar explorer and scientist William Scoresby published “An account of the Arctic regions with a history and description
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107 #90: The barking of a Newfoundland dog alerted Carpathia to Titanic’s lifeboats
FALSE. The story of ‘Rigel the wonder dog’ is almost certainly— in nearly every sense of the phrase—a shaggy dog
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107 #73: If Titanic had had more lifeboats, everybody could have been saved
FALSE. Titanic already carried enough lifeboats for all of the 534 women and children on board and more than an
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107 #50: If the bulkheads of Titanic’s watertight compartments had been higher, she wouldn’t have sunk
FALSE. Six of her forward watertight compartments were flooded, all the way back to her No. 4 boiler room; with
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