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1 day ago · Former British prime minister Tony Blair said, "Christopher Hitchens was a complete one-off, an amazing mixture of writer, journalist, polemicist and unique character. He was fearless in the pursuit of truth and any cause in which he believed.
3 days ago · Brown began to argue with Quartermaster Robert Hichens, who was in charge of the boat, reportedly urging him and her fellow passengers to go back toward the wreckage to save more people.
3 days ago · Lightoller realised there was only one seaman on board (Quartermaster Robert Hichens) and called for volunteers. Major Arthur Godfrey Peuchen of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club stepped forward and climbed down a rope into the lifeboat; he was the only adult male passenger whom Lightoller allowed to board during the port side evacuation.
3 days ago · First class Georgette Madill, first-class passenger. The Titanic 's first-class list was a "who's who" of the prominent upper class in 1912.A single-person berth in first class cost between £30 (equivalent to £3,800 in 2023) and £870 (equivalent to £109,000 in 2023) for a parlour suite and small private promenade deck.
4 days ago · Author of the New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Hitchens is considered one of the most prominent figures in the "new atheism" movement, though the English-born author has described himself as an anti-theist.
5 days ago · Titanic is a 1997 historical romance film directed by James Cameron. The cast of the movie includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Victor Garber, Bill Paxton, Bernard Hill, David Warner, Jonathan Hyde, and Lewis Abernathy.
2 days ago · The thirst for system change is growing in the face of the climate crisis. Yet the prospect for translating rhetoric into action will remain remote if power brokers that benefit from the international financial architecture remain unchanged. Incontrovertible evidence shows that the climate crisis emanates from extractivist anthropocentric systems erected under colonial rule that have become ...
