The last remaining survivor was Elizabeth Dean, who was only a few months old when she and her family boarded the Titanic in hopes of immigrating to the American Midwest. Elizabeth, known as Millvina, and her mother and brother survived. Elizabeth died in 2009, at age 97.
I think the central idea of this article is that sometimes wealth determines what benefits you get. In this article because the third class people did not have much wealth, they did not have much protection benifits.
Isidor Straus, owner of the Macy's department store, and his wife, Ida
He must be very rich since Macy is such a large department store now but back then I have no idea so its interesting to know that back then there was Macy
Only 172 of 699 third-class passengers survived. A similar percentage can be found among crew and staff: 215 of 918 survived.
This shows me that the poorer class must have less safety and protection when the ship was sinking. I believe that it was first all the first class people that can go on the lifeboats so when the lifeboats ran out, the third class passengers would die. I strongly feel like it is unfair since just because you don't have the money to be in the "luxury" class we should all have the same equal protection. Money should not affect how safe you are.
319 were labeled as first class, 269 were termed second class, and 699 were called third class, or steerage.
There must be a lot of poor people back then that could not pay for the higher class seats. However my questions is that how are the first class passengers more than the second class. This does not make sense because the third class makes up most of it so the first class should be the least, not the in the middle!
Titanic: Passengers Famously Separated by Class
I surmise that this means the first class, second class, and third class and how it has affected the poor class and the high rich class.
Astronauts grew space station lettuce last year but had to ship it back to Earth for testing. They didn't get to taste it.
I think the central idea of this article is that sometimes to get farther at something you have to modify what you do to adapt and make it possible. Nothing is impossible, you just have to try it! For example to get farther in space travel, you have to modify how you provide food to eat.
If astronauts are to go farther in space, they will need to grow their own food. This was an experiment to test that.
This shows me that to go farther in space trouble sometimes you have to modify and improve to meet the needs of farther space travel .Sometimes the old techniques would not work and you would have to try something new.
Astronaut Kjell Lindgren pronounced it awesome. And Scott Kelly compared the taste to arugula. They talked about how the veggies added color to life in space.
It seems like sometimes little things like this can make you enjoy space even if the weather the tight space and all other technical difficulties might make it stressful.
On Aug. 10, astronauts munched on red romaine lettuce that they grew in space. It was the first time this happened.
Where in space? On the spaceship or on the moon?
His body was not recovered. He left behind a wife and daughter. A statue of him stands in Beacon Park in Lichfield, Staffordshire, in England.
I think the central idea of this article is that despite one person failing or if that person is in great danger he will still stand up for himself and help others in need even though if he is already near his death
Smith did not survive the sinking of the Titanic. Various accounts of his last actions have him jumping into the sea at the last second, standing in the wheelhouse as the ship went down, and even rescuing a child as his final act.
Smith seems like a really kind and caring person, wanting to save a child when his own life and every one else's life was at big risk!
Despite this incident, the White Star Line appointed Smith captain of its newest ship, the Titanic, for its maiden voyage.
Why would the White Star Line appoint Smith when people blamed Smith for the incident about the Olympic? Is it because the White Star Line knew it was an accident?
Boer War
What is the Boer War?
Majestic
Was Majestic another grand ship like the Titanic?
"Without oxygen," Viesturs said, "99 percent of the people who have climbed Everest wouldn't have climbed Everest."
I think the central idea of this article is that even though sometimes things can have a lot of negative sides to it, if you never try or experiment it you will never no the outcome. It shows this when some people did not want to use the bottled oxygen even though there are high risks of death not using it they still tried it.
Ballinger and Richards insist they are not being overly dangerous. They spent weeks acclimating to the altitude. Ballinger slept in a hypoxic tent to mimic they altitude they are going to face. They are in constant contact with medical professionals through satellite Internet. They have a supply of emergency bottled oxygen stashed at 26,000 feet.
From what I am reading it clearly shows me that lots of training is required to climb a mountain without oxygen!
claustrophobic.
Meaning?
In terms of the how it affects the body, bringing the mountain down is exactly what extra oxygen does. Some hardcore climbers consider it cheating.
I really don't get how life is not first priority but what these people are doing makes me scared disappointed most of all confused. Why would humans switch their precious lives climbing mountains that they know might lead to their death. Even if they wanted to climb why wouldn't they follow some of the safety guide lines like using the bottled oxygen because it might save your life instead of wanting to die and saying its cheating!
Given these risks, why would anyone want to try to go up Everest without oxygen?
Exactly, just my question!
Lack Of Oxygen Results In Chain Reaction Of Negative Effects
I can see from the paragraph at the bottom that it seems there is a lot of negative sides to not using bottled oxygen because of lack of oxygen. This makes me wonder why anyone would even think or try this kind of experiment, not using extra oxygen. Sometimes things are made to prevent other things to be done!
nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits" during his desperate crawl to the top.
I imagine for these two people it may just be like me running a full track, 400 meters, full speed, no stopping and finishing it gasping for air and breath.
Take a step, stop, breathe in 15 times, breathe out 15 times, take another step and stop. This is how one of the world's most accomplished mountaineers describes approaching the summit of Mount Everest without the benefit of bottled oxygen.
Only one step! That would take forever to arrive on top
Most Climbers Need To Use Extra Oxygen
The Majority climbers still cannot bear not breathing extra oxygen. The small number of climbers that dont use it I imagine they are specially trained and have trained for a long time so their lungs have adapted to thin oxygen levels.
Until this month, no one had been on top of Everest for two years. A catastrophic earthquake in Nepal triggered an avalanche that killed 24 climbers on the mountain last year
Why would anyone want to climb it then? Do they now know how risky it is? There is a high chance that they will die!
Only 3 percent of the climbers who make it to the top of Everest don't use oxygen, according to Richard Salisbury of the Himalayan Database.
This is fascinating! I never thought that little people don't use bottled oxygen. It seems as though it sure is really hard to not use bottled oxygen. Travelers that don't use bottled energy is very dangerous and one mistake and lead to immediete death.
In this May 2013 photo, tents are pitched on Camp 2 as climbers rest on their way to the summit of 29,035-foot-tall Mount Everest. May is the most popular month for Everest climbs because of more favorable weather. AP Photo/ Pasang Geljen Sherpa
The humans look so tiny in this image. The rocks look gigantic and everything is covered with snow. How long would it even take for the man even climb over a few of those "enormous" rocks?
A few choose to climb world's tallest mountain without bottled oxygen
This seems very daring and dangerous. What if there is no more oxygen at the top or to little. They would suffocate and die!
Lindberg spent the last several years of his life in Hawaii. He died of cancer in 1974 at age 72 and is buried in Kipahulu on the island of Maui.
I think the central idea of this article is how a person like Charles Lindbergh can be daring to be the first nonstop solo flight and to make things better a person that cares about the environment and wants to bring back extinct animals. His courageous feat help make technology one more step better and make the world a better place!
He campaigned for environmental groups in the 1960s, including the World Wildlife Fund, the Nature Conservancy, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. He fought against the disappearance of dozens of endangered species, including blue and humpback whales, tortoises and eagles.He also lived among tribes in Africa and the Philippines and helped to establish Haleakala National Park in Hawaii.
Lindbergh truly is an inspiration and someone that everyone should look up to. Even though there are ups and downs in his life like being called a nazi sympthizer or his son dying, he kept trying and made Earth and the world a better place for everyone to live in.
Lindbergh the Environmentalist
Lindbergh sure has a lot of traits from flying airplanes to helping the environment is very diverse and at the same time amazing.
Spirit of St. Louis
The name of the Monoplane
Lindbergh Kidnapping
DId Lindbergh get kidnapped? What happened?
In the lead-up to World War II, Lindbergh was an outspoken isolationist. He became the leading voice of the America First Committee—a group of some 800,000 members that opposed American entry into World War II.
He did not want war to happen because war destroys humans, families, communities and more. The U.S. would be a mess if another war happened. He did not want the war not because he was a nazi sympathizer, it's because he knows the consequences of a war that would result a lot of damage to America.
German-born carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptman
A nazi?
Lindbergh’s 20-month old son, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was kidnapped from his second-floor nursery at the Lindbergh’s home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
I imagine so people are jealous of his fame and uses his fame to black mailing him. Its not always good to have all that fame. There are always positive and negative sides.
first person to make the trip solo
This answers my question of having other pilots to help hi,. He's all alone!
He left the plane’s side windows open so that cold air and rain would keep him alert on the 33-1/2 hour flight. The sleep-deprived Lindbergh later reported he had hallucinated about ghosts during the flight.
Could a normal person even withstand not sleeping for 33 hours. This seems very dangerous. Back then I imagine there wasn't auto pilot and but shouldn't there be co pilots and more than one pilot to change between flights so one does not get too stressed out and lose focus?
The engine powering the plane was a Wright J5-C manufactured by Wright Aeronautical, the aircraft manufacturer founded by the Wright brothers.
Oh, Charles Lindbergh flight was after the write brothers invented the first airplane.
Lindbergh decided, with the backing of several people in St. Louis, to compete for the Orteig Prize—a $25,000 reward put up by French hotelier Raymond Orteig for the first person to fly an airplane non-stop from New York to Paris.
Isn't this dangerous? If there is no scientific proof or testing it seems not safe to do this.
isolationist
What is a isolationist?
Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator who rose to international fame in 1927 after becoming the first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis.
Why is the monoplane called the Spirit of St. Louis? What is a monoplane?