by Maarit » Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:34 pm
The message in a bottle
Jeremiah Burke, 19, from Cork and his cousin Nora Hegarty, 18, boarded the Titanic to meet up with his sisters who had settled in Boston a few years earlier. Before setting sail, Burke’s mother gave him a bottle of holy water. As the Titanic began her descent into the sea, Burke managed to write a message, "From Titanic, goodbye all, Burke of Cork," which he placed in the holy water bottle. The cousins died in the tragedy, and a year later, the bottle washed ashore a few miles from his family home.
True or false
1. Donovan Hohn was born in 1972 and he is an American author.
2. Friendly Floatees are plastic bath toys marketed by The First Years, Inc. and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements including those of a consignment of Friendly Floatees, containing 29,000 plastic toys.
3. Moby-Duck is written by Emily Witt.
4. Emily Witt is a singer.
The message in a bottle
Jeremiah Burke, 19, from Cork and his cousin Nora Hegarty, 18, boarded the Titanic to meet up with his sisters who had settled in Boston a few years earlier. Before setting sail, Burke’s mother gave him a bottle of holy water. As the Titanic began her descent into the sea, Burke managed to write a message, "From Titanic, goodbye all, Burke of Cork," which he placed in the holy water bottle. The cousins died in the tragedy, and a year later, the bottle washed ashore a few miles from his family home.
True or false
1. Donovan Hohn was born in 1972 and he is an American author.
2. Friendly Floatees are plastic bath toys marketed by The First Years, Inc. and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements including those of a consignment of Friendly Floatees, containing 29,000 plastic toys.
3. Moby-Duck is written by Emily Witt.
4. Emily Witt is a singer.
