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With 11.6 on the clock, Casey coolly sank both shots from the charity stripe, setting up the final defensive stop...
Markley was fouled on a defensive rebound, giving a one-and-one opportunity at the foul line, where the experienced veteran coolly sank both shots...
After a slow start, the Crimson indeed matched the Tigers’ every move. In the first three minutes, Princeton jumped out to a quick 6-0 lead. But junior forward Emma Markley put away three jumpers and freshman guard Victoria Lippert sank a three-pointer to get momentum going for Harvard, putting the score...
...understandable. Both ships were huge: the Titanic was carrying 2,207 passengers and crew on the night it went down; the Lusitania had 1,949. The mortality figures were even closer, with a 68.7% death rate aboard the Titanic and 67.3% for the Lusitania. What's more, the ships sank just three years apart - the Titanic was claimed by an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and the Lusitania by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. But on the decks and in the passageways and all the other places where people fought for their lives, the vessels' respective ends...
...question of time played important roles too. The Lusitania's passengers may have been more prone to stampede than those aboard the Titanic because they were traveling in wartime and were aware that they could come under attack at any moment. The very nature of the attack that sank the Lusitania - the sudden concussion of a torpedo, compared to the slow grinding of an iceberg - would also be likelier to spark panic. Finally, there was the simple fact that everyone aboard the Lusitania was aware of what had happened to the Titanic just three years earlier and thus disabused...