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Authors: Herbie Brennan

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Perhaps the most striking and best documented of such case studies involves the sinking of the
Titanic
in 1912, an event accurately predicted fourteen years earlier in a novel called
Futility
by the American author Morgan Robertson.
Futility
told the story of the sinking of a huge ocean liner and contained the following parallels with the real
Titanic
disaster:

In Robertson's novel, the ship was named the
Titan
and was British, just like the
Titanic
. Each ship was approximately eight hundred feet long, with a capacity of three thousand passengers, and set sail in April. While the
Titan
was sailing
from
New York City and the
Titanic
was sailing
to
New York City, both vessels collided at midnight with an icebergâwhich struck on the starboard sideâand had too few lifeboats to save all passengers.

The Doomsday Box: A Shadow Project Adventure

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Brennan, Herbie.

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The doomsday box : a Shadow Project adventure / by Herbie Brennan. â 1st ed.

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p. cm.

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Summary: Working on a highly classified espionage project, four English teenagers go back in time to the Cold War in 1962 to prevent a global outbreak of the bubonic plague in the twenty-first century.

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ISBN 978-0-06-175647-4 (trade bdg.)

[1. SpiesâFiction. 2. PlagueâFiction. 3. Cold WarâFiction. 4. Time travelâFiction. 5. Extrasensory perceptionâFiction. 6. Astral projectionâFiction. 7. EnglandâFiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.B75153DooÂ Â 2011

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