RMS Titanic by numerous works of popular culture, including books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials. "Titanic" is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only beaten by her sister , the largest ever sunk, although she holds the record as the largest sunk while actually in service as a liner due to "Britannic" being used as a hospital ship at the time of her sinking. The final survivor of the sinking, Millvina Dean, aged two months at the time, died in 2009 at the age of 97. The name "Titanic" was derived the Titan of Greek mythology and meant
The Diamond Mine (short story) The Diamond Mine (short story) "The Diamond Mine" is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in "McClure's" in October 1916. Aboard a ship, Cressida Garnet, a soprano, meets a cousin of her late first husband's. She tells him of her love affair with Blasius Bouchalka, a Bohemian violinist who was her second husband. After he had an affair with their maid, Ruzenka, she filed for divorce and never saw him again. She is now set to marry Jerome Brown, a financier. Later, we learn that Cressida died on the RMS Titanic. Her marriage to Jerome Brown