Was this message in a bottle thrown from the Titanic hours before it sank? Note from French passenger washes up in Canada 105 years after tragedy
A message in a bottle purports to have been thrown from the deck of the Titanic on April 13, 1912
The note appears to have been written by a French schoolgirl who was travelling to New York to visit family
She drowned alongside 1,500 others after liner hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton
The bottle washed up on a beach in Canada 105 years, with scientists now probing its authenticity
Come to My Town: Cobh. so much to explore
In a new series, MARTINA O’DONOGHUE visits Cork towns and interviews key characters to learn about the gems of their much-loved home places. This week she visits Cobh and chats with Sinead Sheppard
Cobh Cathedral and Cobh quayside.
Martina O Donoghue
ONCE known as Queenstown, Cobh, a town steeped in history, is famous for being the last port of call for the ill-fated RMS Titanic in 1912.
Who better to have as my tour guide than Sinead Sheppard, who knows the place inside-out.
She’s been in local politics for the past 12 years including as a county councillor for the Cobh Municipal District for the past five years but her history with the area stretches back much further.
Back in time for lunch! Café owner discovers 1913 restaurant menu while stripping wallpaper during refit. and now plans to recreate historic dishes from lobster salad, ox tail, grilled kidneys and boiled fowl
Max Kearns was helping to renovate LEAF, Liverpool, when he came across the menu dated January 15, 1913
Features dishes from former Yamen restaurant - including lobster salad and Meringues Chantilly with pears
Menu s cosmopolitan flare encapsulated modern port city at the time, but was aimed at upper middle class
Liverpool s role as hub for global shipping came through in the worldly dishes , such as Tournedos Bearnaise
Every ’90s Blockbuster Movie Ranked
Thirty years on, the 1990s has solidified its stature as one of the magical decades in filmmaking, much like how we view the ’30s and the ’70s. Precisely, this Gen X-decade pulled together the Hollywood studio power of the ’30s and the groundbreaking creativity of the ’70s, crocheting commercialism and art into the movie behemoths we speak of in legend as the ’90s blockbuster which we’ve now ranked all by Tomatometer!
First off, in putting together this list, we didn’t want no scrubs: We defined the ’90s blockbuster as any film that made over $100 million at the box office movies that had people literally lining up around the block to spend their easy-earned cash. (The economy was booming after all.) This, of course, ushers in all those films synonymous with ’90s blockbusterism, including