Sinking of the Titanic - LIFE Images
Sinking of the Titanic - LIFE Images
Masabumi Hosono
Masabumi Hosono
Maybe you still remember one scene in Titanic when the last boat will be deployed and a man nyelonong into the lifeboat, while the preferred when it is women and children were first allowed into the lifeboats itu.Nah, the following story is the scene after he had entered into bule lifeboats which is one of the heroic story of a Titanic passenger who managed to record and he notes he kept, he wrote a letter in English to his wife on the Titanic's note, but after he saved it and then write it in Japanese. Before the end note is published by his daughter.
1910, the Japanese Transport Ministry official sent a messenger named Masabumi Hosono, 42 years to Russia to learn from these countries about railways. Hosono his task was completed in early 1912, then he came home and stopped in London, as he drove home with across the Atlantic with the Titanic. Needless to say, that the journey was not as planned.
On April 14, at 11:40, just four days after sailing, the Titanic hit the iceberg.
when he was soundly asleep, 25 or 30 minutes after the collision there was a knock, then went out Hosono second-class cabin. He then worked out to reach the top deck, but as a foreigner, he was ordered to use the lower deck, far from the rescue boat. 'while the fire was ditembakan SOS to the air continuously, and with a glowing blue and sounds pretty scary. Somehow I can not remove the sense of fear and sadness, 'Hosono writes in his letter.
How he managed to reach the deck above?. 'I tried to prepare myself for the last moment without any preparation, making my mind did not leave something despicable like Japan. But I still could find and waited for an opportunity for every possibility in order to survive '.
Three times he tried to board lifeboats but the officers are prohibited because the priority is women and children, finally a third opportunity came when the clerk called out the lifeboat lowering 'only stay for two people! . One man jumped 'Thought I was focused on the wife and kids that I will no longer be able to see my wife who is very loved and the children, because there is no other alternative for me to share the same fate as the Titanic. But what the first person to jump into the last lifeboat, made me to take this last chance, he then jumped into the boat which contained women and children.
Satu dari beberapa sekoci penyelamat yang membawa Penumpang TitanicOne of the few lifeboats that carried Titanic Passengers
'After the ship sank, then reappear, with people falling into the water before finally sinking. Our boat is also on the content with sobbing wives, children, women whose husbands are not carried in the lifeboats, worried about the safety of their husbands and fathers. And I was really depressed and miserable because of it, not knowing what would happen to me in the long term after this.
Hosono rescued by lifeboat 13 but has been criticized in his own country to do things that no knight is when many people died. Japan's prime minister was later fired when he was in his administration and then a few weeks later called him back, but its image is still tarnished and Japanese daily newspaper called him a coward person, the book cites the example of his life as an embarrassing behavior and a professor of ethics do not call people immoral. Even the Japanese public was advised to Hara-Kiri, to save face.
Hosono never commit suicide, but he hoped to repeat it and died with the Titanic. He never talked about his experience again, and forbade any mention of the Titanic in her home. After he died in 1939, as a man who destroyed and forgotten a lot of people. The letter was later held by his wife, what is written is believed to be the only life story written by his own Titanic passengers, mail is then stored in a drawer until 1997, when the blockbuster movie Titanic Premier in Tokyo, Japan Society was keen to watch the movie Titanic because there was only one Japanese person who participated in the Travel Titanic, Masabumi Hosono, but this time with more sympathy.
more than 2,200 passengers and crew of the Titanic, only lasted more than 700, including 316 of 425 women and 56 of the 109 children. Even if every woman and children have been input in the lifeboats, there will still be enough room for the nearly 700 men from 1690, but only 338 people survived, not all men do it because they have rejected the chance to climb into a lifeboat, Many who think this is the cause of many victims in the titanic.



i’ve been looking at these ski jumps all morning and still can’t believe how awesome they are.
above: empire stadium, vancouver, april 30th 1958. source.
above: empire stadium, vancouver, april 30th 1958. source.
my intention today was to write about modern ski jumps (e.g. this beauty, designed by zaha hadid and this one from mr2) but then i came across the photos above and, in an instant, everything else paled into insignificance. there’s just so much to love. look at the height of the thing (165ft by the way). look at the width. look at the amount of scaffolding (14 miles of it). how did people get to the top? imagine actually standing at the top. the mind boggles.
turns out these temporary ski jumps were all the rage back in the black and white days, especially in stadiums, and i’m just so glad because they made for stunning photos. another case in point: soldier field, 1954…
above: soldier field, chicago, 1954. source.
above: soldier field, chicago, 1954. source.
the enormous slope was covered with tons of crushed ice rather than snow. also, this was the second version of the soldier field jump; the original, built in 1937, was made entirely of wood. here’s a frustratingly miniscule photo of it…
source.
can you see it?
then there’s the 165ft tall jump in the coliseum, los angeles…
above: l.a. coliseum, 1938. source.
and the 167ft tall structure at dodger stadium in 1963…
above: dodger stadium, los angeles, 1963. source.
and finally, multnomah civic stadium in portland, oregon…
above: multnomah civic stadium, portland, 1953.
they’re all brilliant, hilarious and frightening in equal measure.
i’d love to see more of these beasts so let me know if you can feed my new habit. the taller and more rickety the better.



Indonesia Prehistoric Elephant
The discovery of bones of ancient elephants 200 thousand-year-old in East Java horrendous world. The discovery of bones was a headline in some foreign media.
"It is rare to find a fossil like this in the tropics such as Indonesia, precisely in the East Java. This seems covered by volcanic deposits that are protected from high temperature, erosion and damage, "said Edi Sunardi, at Padjadjaran University in Bandung, West Java, told the Associated Press.
A team consisting of seven paleontologists from the Museum of Geology in Bandung, West Java, worked for a month to explore the complete skeleton of a creature 13 feet high around it.
"We believe the shape of his teeth, that it is a very primitive elephant," paleontologist Fachroel Aziz told the AP.
Researchers say 90% of bone elephant was successfully removed. Bone is currently being cleaned and will be investigated more deeply. However, scientists acknowledge the process of putting the framework as it had been before facing obstacles due to lack of funding, both equipment and expertise as a whole.
Aziz Fahroel from Bandung Geology Museum, said the newly discovered bones the first time in full from head to foot. From snout to the tip of the tail all complete and intact.
Species and age of the elephant will be examined based on bone samples. Initial studies showed that the elephant lived 200 thousand years ago. Scientists believe the elephant was larger than modern elephants as it is.
Aziz said Paleontologists have found about 2,000 elephants skeleton remains rare in Indonesia for 150 years, but none of them are in new condition compared to the recently discovered.
"We want to show the public that this is a spectacular discovery," he said.




An nhabitant of the Museum of Mummies

The Museo de las Momias in the little province of Guanajuato in Mexico is full of the exhumed, mummified bodies of unfortunate locals who could no longer pay their graveyard rent.

History

Because of a unique law that is in force in this part of Mexico, graves in the local cemetery have to either be bought for an exorbitant amount or rented every five years. If the deceased's family fails to pay the rent, the body is exhumed and disposed of to make way for new arrivals.

Through some mysterious process that scientists have not been able to explain, a small proportion of the bodies from this graveyard end up naturally mummified.

Rather than being destroyed by the local authorities, these bodies are put in the macabre Museo de las Momias. Here they join a vast "human library," poised in all possible postures of death, that has been accumulating since the museum was founded in 1865.

Myth and Mystery

It is not only the death fetish of the Mexican imagination that has kept this museum going (there can be an eerie, almost carnivalesque atmosphere among the visitors lined up outside). The main draw is the air of supernatural mystery about the whole phenomenon.

Scientists from as far away as Tokyo have analyzed the bodies trying to find an explanation, but no one has so far succeeded in understanding why five or six exhumed bodies every year have turned into mummies.

Some speculate that the minerals in the soil are the cause, while others suspect divine punishment for crimes committed in life - the bodies seem condemned to a perpetually moribund half-life of paralyzed torment.

What to See

Whatever the explanation, this sort of place is obviously only for those with a strong stomach, and even hard nuts may want to avoid some exhibits – such as shelves full of mummified babies.

The only other known mummy-museum of this kind in the world is the Catacombe dei Capuccini in Palermo.

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Realizing that there is a city of Bolzano in Italy, will exhibit mummies from around the world and more than 60 mummies on display in the arena's. The exhibition titled Dream of Eternal Life (Dream of Eternal Life) is followed by more than 60 mummies from Egypt, Asia, Europe, and South America are imported from 27 museums.


Mummy on display not only a human mummies, but also the animal mummies. Among the mummies on display, there is the most famous mummy, or Iceman Oetzi, 5300 year old mummy who is a mummy of a Neolithic hunter found in the Alps in 1991. Placed in a special refrigerator, known as Oetzi "wet mummy" oldest in the world because of his skin color and texture. In addition to the mummy exhibition will also feature artifacts that were related to age mummies were found. (photo? Ist)

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Mummy Project

You need to answer these questions in a project. (Use the document on this page to record your research.) Your project can be a written report, a poster, or a computer generated project (powerpoint, photostory, comic life, etc). Be creative!

1. What is a mummy?

2. How does the mummification process work?

3. Why was mummification important to the Egyptians?

4. Was everyone mummified? If not, what people were chosen to be mummified?

5. What can you learn about the Egyptian people and the way they lived by studying mummies?