by Fjordman, RAIR Foundation:

by Fjordman –  reposted with permission

When the passenger ship Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage and sank on the evening of April 14-15, 1912, it was a tragedy that made a big impression on its contemporaries. Of the roughly 2,200 people on board, around 1,500 died. The disaster was also a harbinger of a far greater disaster for much of Europe.