Before we get right into the meat of this video, just imagine that you have a big company and you make a ship that you claim is "Unsinkable", over 2000 people board the ship, it sinks, and nearly 3 quarters of its passengers lose their lives. The lawsuit that would follow would be huge! And the lawsuit that followed the Titanic disaster was indeed; titanic. The survivors and families of the deceased filed claims for compensation totalling over $13 million from White Star Line who were the transport company responsible. White Star Line claimed that the circumstances leading to the accident were "Unforeseeable". Due to the Board of Trade's report claiming the sinking was "solely the result of colliding with an iceberg", and a lack of solid evidence to the contrary, they reached a settlement and only received $665,000... that's just $430 for each life lost. The judge deemed White Star Line innocent of any criminal negligence. Justice? The Board of Trade's inquiry and subsequent report was "at face value" very extensive: 36 days, 100 witnesses, 25,000 questions, Government officials, White Star Line officials, ship designers, and experts. But the official investigators were from the Board of Trade, the very same officials that deemed the Titanic "Fit For Sea" before its maiden voyage, even though it had only a third of the necessary lifeboats, having previously said the Titanic was fit for sea they weren't about to say that now it wasn't. The Judge who presided over the inquiry was a shipping interest judge who once presided over a toast at the Shipwright' guild saying "May nothing adversely affect the great carrying power of this wonderful country" so he wasn't about to publicize negligence or poor build quality without strong evidence of the fact, and that evidence, if indeed any existed, was at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Fire? An officer and every stoker who survived the disaster claimed that a coal fire had been ablaze since before they left Southhampton and right up until Saturday the 13th at 2 o'clock. The officer wished to remain anonymous as he claimed that all the men had been warned not to talk about the disaster. He said that "In my opinion, this fire played no small part in the disaster, for when the bow was stove in(.) the waters readily tore open the watertight bulkheads behind which had been this coal. If the coal had been still in the second and third sections when the vessel struck the iceberg it would have probably helped the bulkhead to resist the strain." Could a three day coal-blaze piled up on the steel hull, have weakened the rivets of this one-skin ship? Rivets? The metal plates in the central part of the Titanic's hull were held together with triple rows of mild steel rivets, however, the plates in the bow and stern ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5bKV0s-wIM

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George W. Bush called it the “axis of evil” and Condoleeza Rice referred to it as an “outpost of tyranny.” Cut off from the internet and with many horrible human rights violations we bring you 12 crazy things you never knew about North Korea. 1. Weed Is Legal There There's no law against the sale or consumption of "leaf tobacco" in North Korea. Cannabis grows freely by the roadside throughout the country and is particularly popular with young soldiers who prefer it over local cigarettes. 2. Hairstyles Are Restricted Women are supposed to emulate the basic bob worn by the Supreme Leader’s wife. Men are forbidden to exceed 2cm in length, and are encouraged to copy Kim Jong-un’s ‘do. Offenders may be shewn on the spot by scissor-wielding authorities. 3. They Have Their Own Calendar It’s not 2016 in North Korea. It’s 105. Their Juche calendar started the count anew based on Kim Il-sung’s birth date in 1912. 4. The “Three Generations of Punishment” Rule Someone who violates the law isn’t just punished – their entire family is, too. Knowing you’ll be sending grandma to the slammer and your kid to a prison work camp might make you think twice about doing a bad deed. 5. Porn Is Prohibited There are reports saying some offenders have been executed for this offense. Most North Koreans have no access to the Internet but often share films and music on USB sticks. 6. There's a North Korean Version of Godzilla Kim Jong-Il was a big movie buff so he kidnapped South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and forced him to churn out a few films, including a propaganda-filled North Korean version of Godzilla. 7. Kim Jong-un is much like Lord Bolton When Kim Jong-un suspected his uncle Jang-Song Thaek of attempting to overthrow the state in 2012, he supposedly had him stripped naked and fed to 120 hungry hounds that hadn’t been fed for several days. 8. North Korea Holds Farcical Elections Every 5 Years There’s only ever one name on the ballot but citizens are permitted to veto said candidate by publicly crossing the name out - of course at the risk of three generations of punishment. 9. North Korea Has a 100% Literacy Rate That's better than America’s functional literacy rate is 85%. They take education seriously there, which includes a three-year course on the history of Kim Jong-un, in addition to a 160-hour course on Kim Il Sung and 148 hours on Kim Jong Il. The indoctrination starts in kindergarten - or should we call that Kim-dergarten. 10. North Koreans Are 2 Inches Shorter Than South Koreans This is attributed to the relative poverty of the northern nation. It is said that 6 million citizens don’t get sufficient food and a third of the children have chronic malnutrition. 11. North Korea Is the Most Corrupt Country in th ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaOoyF17srg

Ancient cities built from more rock than the pyramids! Massive ancient stadiums! A fortress carved into a mountain and a temple bigger than the Parthenon carved out of one single rock! All this and more in Amazing Ancient Ruins That'll Blow Your Mind! Ephesus, Turkey. The area around this city was inhabited as early as 6000BC but the city itself was founded in the 10th century BC, and it was conquered and reconquered by many different people throughout its history, however, the majority of the ruins left today come from the Greeks and Romans over 2000 years ago. The great thing about these ruins is that you can be a part of them, imagining you're in that era, entering the Library of Celsus and reading one of the 12,000 scrolls held there, sitting in the great theatre cheering with 25,000 Romans, strolling down the Ancient Royal Road with Saint Paul and his disciples. Angkor, Cambodia. Angkor was the capital city of the Khmer empire from the 9th to the 15th century. Judging by the size of the area's irrigation and agricultural systems is estimated to have supported between 750,000 and 1 million people. Over 1000 temples are scattered over the area but the most breathtaking is Angkor Wat. Surrounded by 620ft wide moat and then 98ft of open ground, Angkor Wat is nearly 9 million sqft making it the largest religious structure in the world! It is covered in stone carvings and bas-reliefs depicting Hindu stories and religious events. The entire city of Angkor was bigger than modern-day Paris and used more stone than all the Egyptian pyramids combined, and unlike the Egyptians, who got their stone from a quarry a third of a mile away, Angkor's stone came from a quarry over 25 miles away! Masada, Israel. Perched on the top of an isolated rock, this fortress was built over 2000 years ago for King Herod to use in the event of a revolt. The complex had storehouses, barracks, a church, a stepped pool, a quarry, and a bathhouse, and many other buildings, including giant water cisterns that were used for capturing and storing rainwater. The fortress was only accessible by three narrow paths that led up the cliffside to three fortified gates. Ayutthaya, Thailand. Founded in the 14th century by King U Thong who went there to escape a smallpox outbreak, it quickly became a bustling city and by the 17th century, it had a population of around 300,000 people. In the early 1700s, it's estimated that the city had a population of around a million people, making it one of the largest cities in the world at that time. In 1767 the city was attacked and destroyed by the Burmese Army and the city was subsequently abandoned, the ruins that remain today give us an idea of the cities former grandeur. Mesa Verde, USA. The Mesa Verde National park is located in Colorado and ha ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SprYv4uwjn4