—Dr. Robert D. Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic Bodies had yet to be recovered when someone proposed the first plan to find Titanic. John Jacob Astor’s son Vincent wanted to locate the wreckage and blow it up to free his father’s body, supposedly trapped inside. He abandoned that plan when the ...
—Definition of “titanic,” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Until an icy night a hundred years ago, the word “titanic” suggested good things. Godlike Titans ruled a golden age of Greek mythology. “Titanic” meant big, powerful, extraordinary. That changed on April 14-15, 1912, as the Royal M...
David Liittschwager’s photos of life in one cubic foot of soil or sea appeared in February 2010. CASTELLO ARAGONESE IS A TINY ISLAND that rises straight out of the Tyrrhenian Sea like a tower. Seventeen miles west of Naples, it can be reached from the somewhat larger island of Ischia via a long, ...