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Based On Your Income, Would You Have Survived the Titanic Disaster?
2019 • E47 Jul 14, 2019 14m
When it came to who survived the Titanic and who died that night in April of 1912, social status and gender were staggeringly important. It's well known there weren't enough lifeboats on the Titanic, and the ones that were used could have held more passengers - but would they have been first class ticket-holders? The wealthy elite that traveled in style? Or men from the second or third class passengers - the groups with the largest number of individuals that died on the Titanic?