On  April 15, in 1912, the unsinkable ship, RMS TITANIC, sank. It went down with 1500 souls. The sinking of the TITANIC was and is one of the spookiest, and eeriest events in human history, which is why it has an ongoing fascination, and a total cult status.  1912 was a very bad year for the British Empire; a year which was a precursor, a presentiment, of all the suffering the British people were doomed to suffer in the 20th Century.  In 1912, Robert Falcon Scott drove his brave men to the South Pole; only to discover the Norwegians had gotten there first. Bravery cannot overcome ineptitude. In 1912, the sea faring genius of the British people went down to the sea, to do business on the great waters; with the finest ship ever built. Only to see  that epitome of British engineering sink on its maiden voyage, by hitting, in a VAST ocean, an iceberg. What are the chances?  Genius does not overcome bad luck, or DIVINE PAYBACK. Lincoln thought America's Civil ...