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Not a shilling was spared for the Titanic’s interior build out, which boasted a heated swimming pool, cafés with palm trees, a squash court, and luxury first-class rooms (pictured). Still, it all went down when the “unsinkable” iron and steel ship (top), did, in fact, sink. Read more.
55 years ago: On this day in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. (pictured above) was assassinated in Memphis. For years, his memory was used by people wanting to show progress in race relations. Had he lived, says historian Komozi Woodard, King’s image might have shifted like Nelson Mandela’s did in South Africa. Maybe, Woodard says, “Dr. King may have successfully run for president as Mandela did.”
Hear us out: Words often not associated with rats: empathic and kind. But these night-crawling, alleyway-scurrying rodents may be more like us humans than we care to realize. On World Rat Day (yes, that’s a thing), learn more about how in some places around the world, rats are revered and protected. (Above, Amanda Arnoldholding some of her 20 pet rats photographed by Nat Geo Explorer Charlie Hamilton James.)
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