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Of all the classes of those who sailed, the one that suffered the highest rate of casualties was those of the great ship’s crew, less than a quarter of whom survived. The lost crew of Titanic, and the people they left behind, deserve to be remembered.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.
The appeal of one strange object, which achieved dizzying popularity in my lifetime, and today lives on mostly for nostalgia, is not so difficult to explain. All you need to do is turn one on and wait.
