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    The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) is an American silent animated short film by cartoonist Winsor McCay. It is a work of propaganda re-creating the never-photographed...
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    Sinking site The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on...
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    Lusitania (named after the Roman province corresponding to modern Portugal and portions of western Spain) was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard...
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  • Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea (also known as Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic, and, in German: Der Untergang der Lusitania: Tragödie eines...
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  • Sinking of the Lusitania may refer to The 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania ocean liner by German U-boats The Sinking of the Lusitania, a 1918 animated...
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  • Adams (1905 automobile) (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England)
    journey to New York, Adams was lost in the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom Adams-Hewitt and Adams automobiles...
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    Avis Dolphin (category RMS Lusitania)
    Wales) was a survivor of the 7 May 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania after being torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War. Dolphin...
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    She and the earlier RMS Olympic were almost one and a half times the gross register tonnage of Cunard's RMS Lusitania and RMS Mauretania, the previous...
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  • (1911), Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) and The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918). During the 1910s larger scale animation studios were becoming the industrial norm...
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    of protest with a veiled threat of war in response to the sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-boat. After leaving office, Bryan retained some of his...
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    Hare Hall (category Houses in the London Borough of Havering)
    Cloete's death in the sinking of the Lusitania, during the First World War Hare Park became Hare Hall Camp and housed the 2nd Battalion of the Artists Rifles...
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  • feature excerpts. The first recognized example of this genre is Winsor McCay's 1918 12-minute-long film The Sinking of the Lusitania, which uses animation...
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  • picture, My Four Years in Germany. July – The animated The Sinking of the Lusitania is one of the first examples of animation being used for something other...
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    Gertie the Dinosaur, everything moved, including the rocks and blades of grass in the background. In contrast, his 1918 film The Sinking of the Lusitania progressed...
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    neutrals. In the most dramatic episode they sank Lusitania in May 1915 in a few minutes, killing over a hundred American passengers. In the face of US anger...
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    Wilson's refusal to build up the army in anticipation of war. After the sinking of the Lusitania and the resignation of Bryan, Wilson publicly committed...
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    Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (category Deaths on the RMS Lusitania)
    member of the Vanderbilt family. A sportsman, he participated in and pioneered a number of related endeavors. He died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, on...
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    Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (category Members of the 8th Reichstag of the German Empire)
    enter the war on the side of the Entente. With the Lusitania sinking still a political issue, Bethmann Hollweg appeared before the Reichstag on 19 August...
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    recreational diver, and the currents and breakers over the reef make it a moderately challenging dive. The sinking of Lusitania spurred the local authorities...
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    Winsor McCay (category Burials at the Cemetery of the Evergreens)
    ambitious film, The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918), a patriotic recreation of the German torpedoing in 1915 of the RMS Lusitania. Lusitania did not enjoy...
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  • Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania is a 2015 New York Times non-fiction bestseller written by author Erik Larson. The book looks at the sinking of Lusitania...
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    of Irving Mendelsohn, into whose care McCay's films and artwork had been entrusted in the 1940s. Besides some cels from The Sinking of the Lusitania,...
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    favourable sentiment towards the Allies in the United States. Along with the invasion of Belgium, and the sinking of the Lusitania, Cavell's execution was...
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    paying much more attention to the war. The sinking of Lusitania had a strong effect on public opinion because of the deaths of US civilians. That year, a...
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    SS Arabic (1902) (category Passenger ships of the United Kingdom)
    August 1915, U-24 was operating south of Ireland. Two months previously, following the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, the Kaiser had issued secret orders for...
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    the fact that it was published soon after the sinking of the Lusitania. In response to the report, Germany published its own official response in the...
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    Nemo, Gertie the Dinosaur, The Sinking of the Lusitania Lewis Milestone: All Quiet on the Western Front, The Front Page, A Walk in the Sun Dudley Murphy:...
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    comedies. Winsor McCay's The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) was a silent First World War film. At 12 minutes long, it was the longest animated film made...
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    in jeopardy." "Second U.S. Protest over the Sinking of the Lusitania". 28 November 2010. "The events of the past two months have clearly indicated that...
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    especially after reports of atrocities in Belgium in 1914 and following the sinking of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania in 1915, the American people increasingly...
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