Dynamic Directory - October 22, 2018

About 100 years after the Titanic sank, a rare photo was found in the archives of the Mackay-Bennett's 4th officer. It depicts the remains of numerous Titanic victims about to be buried-at-sea.

It is possible to detect tsunamis via a system known as "DART," which is short for "Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis."

When a devastating earthquake occurred offshore Banda Aceh, Indonesia - on December 26, 2994 - a massive and deadly tsunami followed soon after.

On the 21st of October, 1941, Alan Turing and three of his Station X colleagues wrote a secret letter to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It caused an immediate reaction from the PM.

Japanese officials, who feared an Allied invasion of Palawan Island (in the Philippines) ordered a massacre of American servicemen during December of 1944.

This map depicts the general location of trenches along the Western Front during World War I.

Westminster Abbey - formally known as "The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster" - has been the scene of royal coronations (and other royal events) for centuries.

As more and more whales were depleted in the North Atlantic, whaling men traveled to the Pacific. Near the equator, they had found many sperm whales in what came to be known as the "Offshore Grounds."

After the U.S. Supreme Court issued its school-desegregation opinion inBrown v Board of Education(1954) - impacting not just theschool in Topeka, Kansas(which was a lead party in the case) but schools throughout America - people opposed to the spirit and letter of the new law formed citizen councils. Those councils existed to cloak negative attitudes toward African-Americans with respectability.

During WWII, the federal government urged American women to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and become what was known as a WAAC.

Refusing to recant his beliefs, which were contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church, Jan Hus (John Huss) was burned at the stake outside the city walls of Konstanz (Constance).

Heinrich Karl Bukowski - better known as Charles Bukowski (or "Hank," to his friends and family) - was born in Andernach, Germany on the 16th of August, 1920.

On the 15th of June, 1520, Pope Leo X ordered Martin Luther to recant 41 of his 95 Theses and to stop preaching about those items in his sermons. Luther burned the edict, in public.

Johann Tetzel was a German Dominican friar who told people that if they bought indulgences, their sins would be forgiven.

On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message?

Major Henry Reed Rathbone and his fiancé, Clara Harris, attended a play with Abraham and Mary Lincoln on the night the President was shot. Booth lunged at Rathbone with a knife, injuring but not killing him. Learn how the assassination claimed more victims, years later, when Rathbone himself lost his mind.

Before he became a pope, Giuseppe Sarto had a great deal of experience living among his parishoners. As Pope Pius X, he strongly opposed the outbreak of WWI.

Oliver Wendell Holmes is known for some of his free-speech decisions which he wrote while serving as a Supreme Court Justice.