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StarTribune.com Blog o' Things

Wet weather continues for the East as a low pressure system crawls up the Eastern Seaboard from the South on Sunday, pulling moisture onshore from the Atlantic. Meanwhile, an area of low pressure that has moved into eastern Canada will continue pushing... »

Prayers and silence mark Titanic centenary

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Cruise ship passengers and crew said prayers Sunday at the spot in the North Atlantic where the Titanic sank 100 years ago with the loss of more than 1,500 lives, while the city that built the vessel looked back with a mixture of sorrow and pride. »

Events around the world mark Titanic centenary

Kansas City Star World

From a Belfast cathedral to a ship in the cold North Atlantic, thousands were gathering Saturday to remember the Titanic, 100 years after the sinking of the luxury liner. »

Retracing Titanic Voyage

Spokesman.com Huckleberries Online Posts

A passenger of the MS Balmoral Titanic memorial cruise ship reenacts the famous pose of actress Kate Winslet from the film 'Titanic' aboard the MS Balmoral Titanic memorial cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, Thursday, April 12, 2012. Nearly 100 years a... »

How the Sinking of the Titanic Sparked a Century of Radio Improvements

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joshuarrrr writes "When the RMS Titanic scraped an iceberg on the night of 14 April 1912, its wireless operators began sending distress calls on one of the world's most advanced radios: a 5-kilowatt rotary spark transmitter that on a clear night could ... »

Argentina still wants Falklands 30 years after war

Kansas City Star World

President Cristina Fernandez's campaign to force Britain to hand over the Falkland Islands may have reached its high point with Monday's 30th anniversary of Argentina's failed occupation of the remote South Atlantic archipelago. »

Jeff Bezos To Retrieve Apollo 11 Rocket Engines

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Hugh Pickens writes "AFP reports that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos plans to retrieve the F-1 engines that rocketed astronaut Neil Armstrong and his crew toward the moon in 1969. 'We're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocea... »

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The nation's weather

StarTribune.com Blog o' Things

Wet weather continues for the East as a low pressure system crawls up the Eastern Seaboard from the South on Sunday, pulling moisture onshore from the Atlantic. Meanwhile, an area of low pressure that has moved into eastern Canada will continue pushing... »

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