Isidore straus facts about the sun

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    Isidor Straus

    Birth date

    February 6, 1845

    Birth place

    Otterberg, Germany

    Buried

    Delivered to Mr. M. Rothschild and forwarded May 1st, to New York.

    Isidor Straus (February 6, 1845 – April 15, 1912), a Jewish-German-American, was co-owner of Macy's department store with his brother Nathan. He also served briefly as a member of the United States House of Representatives.[1] He died with his wife Ida in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

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    Isidor Straus was born in Otterberg in Kaiserslautern County in the Pfalz, Germany. He was the first of fem children of Lazarus Straus (1809–1898) and his second wife Sara (1823–1876). His siblings were Hermine (1846–1922), Nathan (1848–1931), Jakob Otto (1849–1851) and Oscar Solomon Straus (1850–1926). In 1854 he and his family immigrated to the United States following his father Lazarus who immigrated two years before. They settled in Talbotton, Georgia where Lazarus had opened a dry goods store.

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    Hi everyone, just a quick, unplanned for episode since I haven’t released anything for a little while. Tales will be back with a season of new content on February 1st.

    Today’s tale is set in the North Atlantic ocean, around 400 miles off the coast of the then Dominion of Newfoundland. The date 15th April 1912. The time, around 2.30am. Picture our subject, a 38 year old former Navy officer named Charles Lightoller. Tonight may well be his worst day on the job.

    Sitting in a lifeboat watching his expensive new ship sink below the waves, something he was assured could not happen – he must have paused to think if he bore any responsibility for the disaster. Just two and a half hours earlier the scene aboard the ship had been anarchic. The unsinkable ship, on her maiden voyage, was sinking! Torn to shreds below the waterline, she was taking on much more water than one could hope to keep pumping back out. With no chance of caulking up the gaping hole, many would die before the night w

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    Meet Isidor and Ida Straus, the inspiration behind the old couple in 'Titanic' whose descendant is married to the missing OceanGate CEO

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    • Anyone who's seen "Titanic" remembers the old couple prepared to go down with the ship together.
    • They're based on Isidor and Ida Straus, a real couple who died in the 1912 sinking.
    • Their descendant, Wendy Rush, is married to OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who is aboard the Titan.

    In James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster "Titanic," a short scene shows an older couple holding each other in bed while their room begins to flood. The moment — which likely made an impression when you watched the movie — takes place during a larger montage set to "Nearer My God to Thee."

    But did you know that this scene is based on a real-life couple, Isidor and Ida Straus? The Strauses

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