TITANIC, STILL A MYSTRY!

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APRIL 21 - MAY 20

Try what you may, making your mark in a totally different field will be difficult. Some of you will fight an infection successfully. Helpful nature of a relative is likely to ease your job. Some of you may undertake an overseas journey. Good returns are foreseen from a rented property.

Cancer

JUNE 22 - JULY 23

Good earning opportunities come to you. Help from co-workers in a time consuming task will be forthcoming on the work front. Support of family will encourage you to take up a challenge. Socially, your presence will be much looked forward to.

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AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23

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OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 22

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DECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20

Previous investments are likely to give you good returns. Some of you may decide to follow in the footsteps of celebrities and visit the very same exotic destination that they had been to.No amount of excuses will dispel lover’s suspicions about your tendency to stray the path.

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FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20

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Atimeless story of love and loss, 'The great Titanic' has kept many mysteries saved in its rudder. The legendary Titanic was the pride and joy of the White Star Line and at the time, the largest moving object ever built, the giant deck was considered unsinkable. But the greatest question was not that 'how could the Titanic have sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic just four days into its maiden voy age but there are thir teen mysteries, which are still unsolved.

Was it really Titanic?

The iconic story revolves around a seven teen-year-old aristocrat who falls in love with a kind but poor art ist at the luxuri ous Deck which sank in the North At lantic Ocean on April 15 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from South ampton, England to New York City, United States. From 2, 224 passengers and staff crew 1, 500 peo ple died in the tragedy. But the question arises that the ship that sank was the Titanic. Because many sources claim that the ship was actually identical R.M.S. Olym pic. As the story goes, the Olympics had been dam aged in an accident the year before, but to score a bigger insurance payoff, the ships’ common owners passed off the Olympics as the Titanic and then deliberately sank it. Apart from this, there are many holes in this Titanic theory, serial numbers found on parts of the ship that didn’t sink support it.

Did a fire seal the ship’s fate?

Another interesting fact about the mysterious ship is that a recent documentary offers credible evidence that the Titanic had been damaged by a coal fire, which had been raging for three weeks before the ship even set sail. The damage would have weakened the hull of the ship, thus hastening the ship’s speeding was to burn coal as quickly as possible to control the coal fire mentioned above.

What caused the ship to break into two pieces?

Oceanographer Robert Ballard's report discovered that 'The Unsinkable Ship' broke into two pieces because of design after hitting an iceberg on April 14, but some sources revealed that the Titanic was torpedoed by a German U-boat. It is believed that three years later in 1915, a German U-boat did sink a passenger ship, the Lusitania. However, torpedo theorists may be confusing the Titanic with the Lusitania. It’s also pos the dangerously icy conditions, which may have been relayed as a non-urgent matter. Later, the Californian crew reportedly ignored the Titanic’s distress signals, although they claimed they were not aware of those signals because their radio operator had gone off duty.

The third ship

The Californian may not have been the only ship that ignored the Titanic’s distress signals. A Norwegian ship, the Samson, may have been nearby as well. Some believe that Samson was closer to the Titanic than the Californian but ignored her distress signals to avoid prosecution for illegal seal-hunting.

Did J.P. Morgan plan

The Titanic took the place of the damaged Olympic blame financier J.P. Morgan, who was one of the owners of the company that owned both ships. Morgan was one of the wealthiest people on the planet at the time, and he wielded considerable power. In addition, he was a last-minute noshow on the Titanic’s sole voyage. Why did Morgan and his entire family not

“No matter what caused the Titanic to sink, such a massive loss of life could probably have been avoided if the ship had carried sufficient lifeboats for its passengers and crew,” notes History.com. So then why did the uber-luxury liner have only 20 lifeboats, the legal minimum?