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Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

All right, welcome to another week of the Daily Blade. I am pumped to have you guys here.

So I, like many of you, love history. So it's literally an endless supply of information and

stories. And in particular, I get caught up in a lot of like specific time periods and people

groups. So the rise and fall, the Roman Empire. I love that. The westward expansion and exploration

in the United States. And then there's all the conflicts with the American Indian tribes. And as a

Choctaw Indian myself, I like hearing about how my ancestors used to live. I'm also a Celtic

mutt. So anything to do with the Irish or the Scottish I'm here for? And I love the history of

the greatest game. Yes, the greatest game ever invented, and that is baseball.

So I love hearing me some stories about the greats like Stan Musial and Ted Williams and

Bay Ruth, and then anything to do with my favorite players from the 90s and 2000s like King

Griffey Jr., Yadir Malina, Randy Johnson, so on and so forth. But I'm also drawn to the

dark tragedies of history. And namely since I was a kid, I had a tremendous interest

in the shipwreck and subsequent sinking of the RMS Titanic. So as most of you at least tangentially

know about at this point, the Titanic set out for her maiden voyage on April the 10th of 1912.

It was billed as an unsinkable ship and it was the largest and most luxurious ship that had

ever been built

up to that point in human history. But on April the 14th, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg on

the starboard side. And this was a catastrophic wreck that led to the sinking of the ship in the early

hours of April the 15th. Roughly 1,500 people died in this tragedy with only just about 700 survivors. So there's been a lot of

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