Ashes Of Last Known Titanic Survivor Scattered At Southampton Docks

End of an era when manners and upbringing counted for something: the ashes of the last Titanic survivor have been scattered at the English port where the ship began its ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912.

Millvina Dean, who was 9 weeks old when her parents took her aboard the ship, died May 31 at age 97.

Her ashes were scattered on Saturday by her partner, Bruno Nordmanis, on the water at Southampton Docks in southern England.

About 150 people, including members of the British Titanic Society and friends of Dean, gathered for the ceremony. David Hill, of the British Titanic Society, called her a "lovely lady, and anyone who met her would say exactly the same."

Belgian Farmers Get Udderly Out Of Control During Milk Price Protest In Brussels

Antiqueswest has covered more than a few full-blown riots in its day, and we know that demonstrators can get "creative" when it comes to finding something to fling at a policeman.

We've seen rocks, steel pellets, molotov cocktails and chunks of concrete hurled at riot police during these things, but we're hearing of a new tactic out there these days, something more insidious even than the bags of dog stuff anarchists hurled at coppers - and anyone else they didn't like - during protests over Operation Desert Storm.

But this, wow, this is something really terrifying... the officer on the receiving end is undoubtedly undergoing counseling as we speak.

Antique Hoaxes: Somewhere, "Jay Slaven" Is Laughing Like The Dickens

There have been a number of great antique hoaxes through history, pranksters who know a certain piece will outlive them and that a story well told could send the unwitting on a merry chase long after the prankster is gone.

Chalk it up to the human need to reach out and tickle someone from beyond the grave, and antiques can be the perfect conveyance.

Take Patty Henken of Illinois. Patty thought her ship had come in when she pried off the seat of an old chair she was working on and a typewritten note fluttered alluringly to the ground.

The note, signed by a "Chauncey Wolcott," instructed the finder of the note to a hidden hoard of gold coins - stashed at a residence long ago and waiting for the person sharp enough to find it.

Patty did some quick mental calculations on the price of gold today, found a backhoe operator and rented some ground penetrating radar and went to the location, a vacant lot. She began to dig, and dig.

But an old friend of a deceased newspaper classified ad employee raised the alarm, identifying Chauncey as a fellow employee and a man without a pot to p... bury gold coins in. Patty knew she'd been had when the author of her note was further identified as John "Jay" Slaven - a local prankster known for his practical jokes.

It seemed Jay liked to leave typewritten notes in odd places around town, and Patty was not his only victim. As she calculated her out of pocket expenses from her "treasure hunt" it was revealed that the location where her pot of gold was meant to reside was actually the site of Slaven's home. He died in 1976.

Company Works To Bring "Old Fort Laramie" Back To Life In 3D

An Orinda, CA firm using 3D Laser technology to scan historic sites and "bring them back to life" is currently in the field in Wyoming and capturing the physical imprint of one of the West's most significant structures - old Fort Laramie.

Founded in 1849 when the U.S. Army, then a ragtag collection of scouts, frontiersman and adventurers led by a few "regulars," bought a former fur trader's outpost called "Fort John" and began to build a military settlement along the Oregon Trail.

Contrary to popular misconception and Hollywood B-movies, the fort was never walled nor did it have turreted blockhouses for Indians to scale and set fire to. It relied on its garrison and field pieces to keep "hostiles" at bay - until 1854, at least, when a detachment of soldiers was lured out of the fort and killed by Plains Indians upset by the intrusion of emmigrants then flooding into the West.

Now, 160 years later, CyArk of Orinda, CA is tracing the footsteps of cavalry soldiers, fortune seekers, settlers, and Mormons fleeing persecution in the East and taking painstaking 3D "portraits" of the old fort and environs to digitally preserve the Fort Laramie National Historic Site.

Working in partnership with the National Park Service, CyArk hopes to provide more accurate documentation of one of the last vestiges of the Old West for future use by conservators, researchers, the NPS staff, and the public.

No Buyer For Samson The T-Rex - Yet

Sampson, a fossilized Tyrannosaurus Rex with a great pedigree, failed to sell today and was brought in, though auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields say they'll find a good home for the "Thunder Lizard" soon.

A number of institutions and individuals have expressed interest in the old bag of bones, which Bonhams hoped would bring $6 million when it went up for bid today in Las Vegas.

High bid today was $3.7 million.

Paleontologists say 170 bones discovered 17 years ago in South Dakota represent more than half the skeleton of a 40-foot-long, 7 ton dinosaur that lived 66 million years ago.

A similar fossil sold for $8.3 million in 1997.