The ship that sank a neighborhood: the General Slocum disaster.
The burning of a day steamer in 1904 wiped out an entire New York City neighborhood at one blow. Why did it happen?
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Interiors: Classroom in a school in Palamuse, rural Estonia, circa 1890s.
This classroom is where a famous Estonian novelist went to school and from which he drew much of his inspiration.
Not a “good” bad movie: Revisiting “The Room” and its terrible human failings.
This film is dead on a human level, and horribly depressing.
Historic Photo: First class dining room of the ocean liner Grosser Kurfürst, 1905.
See how the rich dined as they made their way across the Atlantic in the first decade of the 20th century.