Notre Dame Engulfed in Flames: 800 Years of Hope Ravaged. Roof, Highest Spire Collapse. Artwork, Relics of the Centuries Fates Uncertain

Fires beginnings spread rapidly to the roof, engulfed the Cathedral spire in the early afternoon (late afternoon in Paris. This is the view of the north side of the cathedral . The double-tower grand entrance is to the right.
Spire has collapsed. Late in the afternoon, flames in the interior of the cathedral light up the rose window on the north side of the building. The entrance to the church is to the far right
View from the rear of the building toward the front approximately 9:30 Paris time.
A smoky look into what was left on the interior of the catheral as of 10 PM PARIS TIME

The fire was officially declared out, in a Reuters report late in the evening. Reuters reported some relics and artworks were saved by firefighters, and that the main structure of the church had been saved.

The New York Times reported this morning that 2/3 of the roof was destroyed. The two towers at the entrance of the church were saved The Times correspondents, Adam Nossiter and Aurelien Breeden reported the cause is not known. They reported the rector of the Cathedral said the fire stared in the wood beams supporting the church roof. It started at about 6:30 PM Paris Time, took 5 hours to control.

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Dawn in the North Atlantic 107 Years Ago Today. A morning to remember.

Photographs (insets)Lifeboats from the RMS Titanic approaching the Carpathia early this morning, 107 years ago. The Titanic sank at 2:20 A.M. after colliding with an iceberg at approximately 11:40 P.M. Sunday evening, April 14, 1912. Titanic Quartermaster Robert Hichens stands in the stern at the lifeboat tiller on approach to the Carpathia.


Lifeboat drawing up alongside Carpathia filled with passengers rescued from the doomed oceanliner.

A Titanic Lifeboat filled with freezing survivors of the sinking, being raised aboard up the sides of the Carpathia, this morning 107 years ago.

Empty lifeboats in New York delivered by the Carpathia at Pier 54 in Manhattan on April 18.

At dawn this morning , in 1912, the Carpathia after steaming through an ice field 6o miles in 3-1/2 bours at 18 knots, to reach the foundering Titanic, rescued 703 persons from lifeboats. Many of the lifeboats were not filled to capacity, due to crew ineptness and lack of lifeboat drills on board, (since the Titanic was pronounced unsinkable). 

The 20 lifeboats has a capacity of passengers of 1,178, (65 per boat), while the Titanic (irresponsibly I might add) had 2,200 passengers and crew on board, Two thirds of the pasengers and crew perished.

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IT’S HOT CROSS BUNS TIME.

ONE A PENNY TWO A PENNY….HOT CROSS BUNS! HOT CROSS BUNS!
A Hot Cross Bun from The Kneaded Bread this morning in Port Chester New York USA. Crisp topping, moist inside plenty of fruit inside and delicious white frosted cross. The breakfast of the season on Palm Sunday.

Annunciata Elwes in Country Life Magazine writes about the history of the King of Buns in this article at

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/food-drink/the-history-of-the-hot-cross-bun-1496
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