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My Darling Rose,The gripping, icy chill
That soon will take me forever from you
Cannot drown the love
Or snuff out the fire in my soul,
Which from this dark night will go on
Burning deep in your heart
Through all the days of your life...Jack
April 15, 1912
Far across the distance
And spaces between us
You have come to show you go on.
(Chorus)Love can touch us one time
Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on.Once more, you open the door
And you're here in my heart and
My heart will go on and on.
Love was when I loved you
One true time I'd hold you,
In my life we'll always go on.
(Repeat Chorus)You're here
We'll stay forever this way.
You are safe in my heart and
My heart will go on and on.
Music by James Horner - Lyric by Will Jennings
Copyright © Sony Music Entertainment Inc. - All Rights Reserved
Jack's Lyric by Malcolm L. Kantzler - Copyright © 1998. All rights reserved.
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The Barber 1912-D Silver Half-Dollar
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The Barber Half-Dollar, produced by the U.S. Mint, was designated the “Liberty Head Half Dollar,” but came to be named after its designer, U.S. Mint Chief Sculptor-Engraver Charles E. Barber, whose initial (B) is at the nape of Liberty’s neck. The coin was minted beginning in 1892 and ended production after 1915, a run of 24 years. The 1912 sinking of the Titanic was, without doubt, the landmark event of its entire production span, and no one knows how many of the Barber Half Dollars were aboard and went down with the ship on that cold, ill-fated night. The Barber Half is a true silver coin, like all dime-and-higher coinage of the period, and as with the Walking Liberty Half-Dollar that succeeded it, the Barber Half’s total weight is .4409171076 oz. (12.5 g) with .36169 oz. (10.2539115 g) pure silver, and it is composed of 90-percent pure silver and 10-percent copper, located in the reeded edge. At 30.6 mm in diameter, it will fit the same bezels as its Walking-Liberty successor, if desired to wear as a necklace. The 1912 coin is valued by the numismatic’s 2008 Red Book (page 194) beginning at $17 for the poorest of grades, where all details have vanished and only an outline of Liberty and the reverse-side Eagle are visible, with not all of the date numerals visible, and with most of the banner and edge wording gone, the condition of many that are available today. This coin is in very good condition for a circulated coin of 1912, with even the first and last two letters of the name Liberty still visible in her head band, which is completely worn away on most circulated coins available today at a reasonable price, and all other lettering is visible on front and back, including on the eagle’s banner.
This coin is a perfect icon for the Titanic event of history that marked the year of its striking, though it was also a bad year for 2,700 passengers and crew on five other ships, all of whom perished in sinkings off Spain, Japan, and in the Nile River, joining the estimated 1,500 lost after the Titanic slowly sank off Newfoundland that April 15, as the band played on to the very end. The coin may well represent peacetime-maritime history’s darkest year.
The Belfast-built liner, Oceana, was just one of 1912’s less deadly maritime
mishaps, sinking in the English Channel after a collision, taking nine souls.
But bright beginnings were being blazed that would, eventually, end the reign of ocean liners in long-distance, global travel. 1912 marked the first flight of a practical flying boat, the first transcontinental flight from the west, where the Beverly Hills Hotel first opened its doors and Arizona became a state, to the east across America, and 1912 saw the first breaking of the aeronautical 100-mph speed mark.
The Curtiss Flying Boat, Glenn Curtiss piloting.
As the world became smaller, it also grew with exploration, as Robert Scott’s British expedition reached the South Pole, but 35 days after Norwegian Roald Amundsen’s first arrival in late December, 1911, Scott’s body being found later, near the end of 1912, in Antarctica.
Robert Falcon Scott in Antarctica.
This coin saw adversity for global and social explorers, as the newly minted state, Arizona, joined Kansas and Wisconsin in voting for women’s suffrage, and as suffering workers confronted employers around the world, resulting in striking Siberian mine workers being fired upon, martial law being declared to quell a textile strike in Massachusetts, and a coal-miners’ strike in England. The accelerating women’s movement reached across generations, to the very young, as the precursor to the Girl Scouts, the Girl Guides, was formed in Savannah, and within a week of that, the Camp Fire Girls were nationally chartered, and conveniently, a week later, the Dixie Cup was invented.
Wilmette Camp Fire Girls, happy after completing their inaugural-charter year.
Meanwhile, from Dixie, the first Blues song was published, Memphis Blues, and Tarzan lost the blues when he was first published and found his Queen of the Jungle, Jane; while in the jungle of New York, another queen made a first, as Queen Elizabeth was the first foreign film screened in the U.S., while in sports, Boston beat the NY Giants in the ninth World Series, and Democrat Woodrow Wilson beat Progressive Theodore Roosevelt and Republican incumbent, President Taft, in the November election.
Cover from the Tarzan 1912 pulp-magazine debut.
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Imagine placing this coin on the dining table and the conversation it will spark, linking you and your lunch or dinner party back to the events it has survived, from the card-game table in steerage to the cost of a fine cigar and the tip to the waiter who fetched it in the fabulous dining hall of the Titanic, and the seven-course dinner that awaited, which would have made Kitchen First Lady Julia Child drool, as she did a lot that year, since 1912 was the year of her birth, along with a pair of White House First Ladies, Pat Nixon and Lady Bird Johnson, and of interest to the gentlemen at the table, a pair of masters of the green, Sam Sneed and Ben Hogan. And this coin can be in your pocket, purse, or Titanic collection to accompany you on your life journey for just a nominal investment. Just click on the PayPal button, below, to go to the secure and encrypted PayPal-processing page, where you can complete payment, for which you will receive an invoice, acknowlegement, and this Titanic history-link in the mail.
