July 2019
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: There have been far greater sea disasters then the Titanic but for more then 100 years it still captures the imagination of people like no other nautical disaster. Below are just some pictures of that famous unsinkable ship. Unfinished, at Belfast, on May 31, 1911. Under construction. The Titanic,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: These were once the toys, clothing and medicine of Hugo Steenmeijer, the child of a ddDutch father and an Indonesian mother. When Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies in 1942, his father was sent to work as a forced labourer on the Burma Railway. The Japanese imprisoned Europeans in…
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