
Today in Titanic History - with Searching
Today in Titanic History Tuesday, December 16, 2025 | | 1898 - 1st class survivor Master John Borie Ryerson was born to Arthur Larned Ryerson and Emily Maria Borie Ryerson in Illinois, USA.
1876 - 2nd class passenger Mr Richard James Slemen was born to Augusta L. Steed in Landrake, Cornwall, England, UK.
1951 - 2nd class survivor Master John Morgan jr Davies died of suicide by barbituate poisoning in Detroit, Michigan, USA at the age of 48.
1887 - 2nd class survivor Mrs Antonine Marie Mallet was born to the Magnin family in Paris, France.
1892 - 3rd class passenger Mrs Eileen Mcnamee was born to Richard O'Leary (Army Sergeant in the Royal Engineers) and Minnie Petheram O'Leary in Plymouth, England, UK.
1908 - The first keel plate was laid for the Hull 400, later called the Olympic, Titanic's sister ship.
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Striped Background
This column teaches you how to make this background:
http://back-to-titanic.com/waves/copal/jun00_stripes.html
- Choose two pictures, here one of Rose and of Jack, and crop them into squares that are 100x100 pixels.
(tip: to make an exact square with Photoshop, hold down the shift key while you make a selection)
- Using either picture, go to Image | Canvas Size and click the top center box, so the added space only goes down, and increase the Canvas Size by 200% the height.
- Drag or cut and paste the second picture onto the first picture so that it covers the lower half.
- Rotate the canvas (Image | Rotate Canvas | Arbitrary) 45 degrees CW.
- Open a new document that is 200 x 200. Copy Merged and paste the picture of Jack and Rose onto this new image.
- Offset the layer of Jack and Rose so that a diagonal is created directly across the image. Copy, just the Jack layer, from the Jack and Rose image, onto the new document. Offset it so it continues the diagonal stripe.
- Change the Image Size on the Jack and Rose image to 50 percent. (In the example they are vertically flipped.) Copy and paste them over to the new document and offset them just like the larger Jacks and Roses so they fill in the gaps between.
You may want to make some darker or lighter, which would mean putting an adjustment layer (Layer | New | Adjustment Layer) between them. Choose Levels and play with the settings until you like what you see.
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Making Waves
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