While many out there seldom notice the tiny speck of steel at the base of docking supertankers, some of us connoisseurs harbor a benign obsession
Year: 2025
Beautiful Ocean Liners Sunk by Submarines (Part 2)
With their career often spanning over decades, ocean liners gather stories much like people do. Add to this their exotic journeys and the simmering political
Beautiful Ocean Liners Sunk by Submarines (Part 1)
Raging for ten gruesome years combined, the two world wars caused unimaginable loss of life and property across the globe. Bomber airplanes shadowed the sun,
Smaller Nations on the Titanic
Although the majority of passengers on the RMS Titanic were from the USA and the United Kingdom (the Irish still begrudgingly part of the latter),
Manila Galleons and the First Global Economy
The 15th century found the world in unprecedented upheaval. As the ancient Silk Roads crumbled down with the collapse of the Mongol Empire, the Ottomans