Last Night on the Titanic: The Trend Setters

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Many Titanic passengers were known for setting the styles. In this episode we will profile the two Luciles: famed fashionistas Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon and Lucile Polk Carter. We will also look at John Jacob Astor IV, perhaps the world’s richest man at the time. He founded hotels that were ground-breaking in their day and continue to set trends long after the eponymous founder's death.

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0:00.0	Many people learn about history as a collection of names, dates, and places,
0:04.8	but history is so much more interesting than that.
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0:33.6	They were some of the most powerful men who've ever lived.
0:36.3	They waged war, forged peace, and altered the fates of billions of people.
0:40.4	And yet, they were just as human, just as flawed as you and me.
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1:06.0	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.
1:09.0	The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes,
1:12.5	myth busts historical lies, and rediscoveres the forgotten stories that changed our world.
1:19.1	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
1:26.6	Hey, everyone. Welcome back to our series on the last night of the Titanic.
1:29.7	We're looking at the lives of the people who are there on that fateful night.
1:33.1	Join as always with our resident Titanic expert is going to help us look at the lives of the trendsetters.
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