I always forget that boys used to wear dresses.

It's like kidnapping your own kids, then drowning while they're saved.

Isn't it ironic, don'tcha think?

It's like rain on your wedding day

It's a free ride when you've already paid

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

And who would've thought it, it figures

And they gave him a toy boat to play with

Now that would have made a better movie than Leo's pride and prejudice on a boat.

I think historically nobody wore closed bottom clothes until their parents were 100% certain that their kids wouldn't shit themselves.

Honestly, I don't think people appreciate just how much more interconnected the world was before the mid-20th Century population explosion.

Whenever I hear interesting tales from history, the same people, places, and events pop up together again, and again.

Just like how John Wilkes-Booth's brother saved Lincoln's son from being run over by a train days before JWB shot Lincoln.

Sometimes it seems as though the world only held a few dozen people 😅

"The reunited mother and children then sailed back to Europe together on the Oceanic."

I can't imagine that was a relaxing trip.

Potential for a way better sex scene

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I thought it was a dress too but I actually think it's a long coat over short pants and some sort of tights.

She made a song about irony, but most of the examples cited in the lyrics weren't actually irony. Which made the song itself ironic.

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The Navratil boys, it's a bit of a sad story actually.

Michel Navratil and his wife, Marcelle, separated after both his business (he was a tailor) started to fail and he found evidence she was cheating on him. Marcelle gained custody of Michele and Edmond. Devastated to lose his sons, his wife, and almost his career- he took the opportunity for their Easter visit to take the boys and go to America.

Easter that year was April 7, and Titanic sailed April 10th, so Michele's plan was incredibly last minute. They sailed from France, to Monte Carlo, to London where he booked last minute tickets on Titanic under the name "Hoffman"- the name of a friend.

Navratil didn't actually know if he was going to be allowed into America, and while on board wrote a letter to his mother asking if she would take the boys should they be told to leave the country. Reportedly, he only left the boys out of his sight once on the journey to play a few hands of cards.

On April 15th, Michel Navratil put his sons in Boat D, telling his oldest to tell his mother he loved her and always had. He died, was picked up by the Mackay Bennet and because he was traveling under an assumed name, was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Halifax that held Titanic's victims.

The boys, speaking no English and being toddlers, were dubbed "the Titanic Orphans" by the press as they were the only unclaimed children. They were taken in by first class passenger Margaret Hayes while the search for family was conducted. Thankfully, their mother recognized them in a newspaper and White Star Line paid for her voyage to and from New York to retrieve them.

Michele went on to live a long and happy life, becoming a professor. He finally visited his fathers grave in the mid-90's

Edmond went on to fight in WW2 but died at the age of 43 after the treatment he suffered in a POW camp

Search the internet for Michel Navratil Sr. and you will find that every site mentioning them states that they sailed to Monte Carlo first before sailing to England.

That's incredible. Thanks for unpacking that.

Thanks! I was assuming overland travel.

Yep my dad and uncles (from Haiti in the 1960s) have photos of them wearing what are basically dresses.

Some boys still do. I swear by my pretty floral frock.

I was obsessed with the Titanic when I was little. Then the movie came out and I hated it. So much human drama, so many genuinely compelling stories and it focused on some made up, cliche, boring romance.

There were a million reasons for you to not say that and yet you did

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