Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Titanomania: Museum charts obsession with Titanic

A woman looks at a photograph of the Grand Staircase from the Titanic, at SeaCity Museum in Southampton, England,Tuesday, April 3, 2012. The new museum will open in the City of Southampton on April 10, 100 years after the ill fated Titanic sailed from the City's docks. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Somewhere between the black Titanic teddy bears and the pale Iceberg beer, the Titanic Barbie doll and the "Tubtanic" bath plug, the global obsession with the story of the doomed ocean liner began to border on the absurd.


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