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March 26, 2010

Strange But True!

Q. What's the most famous chunk of ice in the history of the world?

A. The iceberg that sank the steamship Titanic on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic on April 14, 1912, answers Mariana Gosnell in “Ice: The Nature, the History and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance.”


 
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