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    A book published 14 years before the Titanic disaster predicted its fate. In 1898, a novel called "Futility" described the sinking of a passenger ship called Titan after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The document prompts the reader to read newspaper articles about the Titanic sinking and look for any inconsistencies between reports or additional details learned, such as other similarities to the novel, the timeline of events, how the wreck was discovered, and other real-life events foreshadowed in fiction.

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    A book published 14 years before the Titanic disaster predicted its fate. In 1898, a novel called "Futility" described the sinking of a passenger ship called Titan after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The document prompts the reader to read newspaper articles about the Titanic sinking and look for any inconsistencies between reports or additional details learned, such as other similarities to the novel, the timeline of events, how the wreck was discovered, and other real-life events foreshadowed in fiction.

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    Titanic

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    A book published 14 years before the Titanic disaster predicted its fate. In 1898, a novel called "Futility" described the sinking of a passenger ship called Titan after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The document prompts the reader to read newspaper articles about the Titanic sinking and look for any inconsistencies between reports or additional details learned, such as other similarities to the novel, the timeline of events, how the wreck was discovered, and other real-life events foreshadowed in fiction.

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    An Amazing Fact a Day

    Titanic Tragedy
    ‘Futility’, or ‘The Wreck of the Titan’, was a book published in 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank. In the book, a passenger ship called
    Titan sinks in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. Read the newspaper articles reporting on the Titanic disaster.

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    Titanic Tragedy An Amazing Fact a Day

    Newspapers often report incorrect


    information. Can you find any anomalies
    in the information reported? Does the
    information differ between newspapers?

    What other information did you learn


    about the Titanic from reading the
    newspaper articles?

    You could also try to find out:

    • what other similarities there were;

    • the timeline of the sinking of the Titanic;

    • how the Titanic was found underwater;

    • what else has been predicted in books


    that then happened in real life.

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