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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

She saw the Titanic sink and the end of World War I. Now, the oldest American just turned 115

www.independent.co.uk

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She saw the Titanic sink and the end of World War I. Now, the oldest American just turned 115

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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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She saw the Titanic sink and World War I end. Now, the oldest American has turned 115
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    Headline is bullshit - she was no eye witness of the Titanic desaster.

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      I bet she wasn’t in the rail car for the armistice either.

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      I bet she didn’t literally see the signing of the Treaty of Versailles either. /s

      You can be witness to world events without literally being there and looking at them with your eyes.

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      She was… she was the iceberg.

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      Prove she wasn’t there!

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        https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivors/

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          She fled the scene with her iceberg accomplice

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          How do you know she didn’t change her name? Maybe after witnessing the armistice in the rail car, she had to go into hiding because they all figured out she was a spy on the Titanic.

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      And here for he to live long enough to vote in the first black female president and out live Trump.

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      She was at that Irish dance party tho, if you look real close you can see her in the back.

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