MAIL LOST ON TITANIC

The R.M.S. — Royal Mail Steamer — “Titanic” carried 3,364 bags of mail or approximately 400,000 letters from Europe, bound for the United States.

In Early Modern English, the word “you” was generally used only when speaking to someone, who was socially superior or of higher status, although members of the upper class might also use it with each other as a form of polite address. The word “thou” was favored in all other exchanges.

Ebony weighs approximately 73 pounds per cubic foot, and mahogany weighs about 45 pounds per cubic foot. Cork, a much lighter wood, weighs only about 13 pounds per cubic foot. But balsa beats them all at 7 pounds.

Angelo Siciliano created a system of muscle building that he called “dynamic tension,” and the program worked so well that “Physical Culture” magazine dubbed Siciliano in 1922 the “World’s Most Perfectly Developed Man.” By that time, however, Siciliano had taken on a new name: Charles Atlas.

Thomas Edison designed a camera called the kinetograph. It was the world’s first machine, specifically designed to film motion pictures. Creating the camera required $24,000 worth of experimentation. But the risk paid off. By 1895, Edison had made $177,847 on sales of the cameras and films.