Saturday, March 17, 2012

Factoid of the day

Seven famous people who missed the Titanic, at Smithsonian magazine

includes Theodore Dreiser (cost too much), Marconi (left three days earlier on the Lusitania), Milton Hershey (decided to leave earlier), J Pierpoint Morgan (decided to stay longer in Europe), Henry Frick (his wife sprained her ankle), AG Vanderbilt (changed his mind the last minute) etc.

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