As the old adage goes, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and for some enterprising authors the tragic sinking of the Titanic represents the perfect tool with which to frame that lesson.

Like many of the 5,000 other students who gathered at Vimy Ridge, France, to mark the battle’s 95th anniversary, Robert Sweeny had been given a school project months ago — to research two soldiers from the First World War.

A website has published more than 200,000 documents relating to the sinking of the Titanic to mark the disaster’s 100th anniversary.

Anything and everything with a genuine link to the world’s most famous shipwreck catastrophe seems to be up for grabs in time for the 100th anniversary of the RMS Titanic’s first and last voyage.

Thousands of Canadian students joined the Governor General and the minister of veterans affairs in France to mark the 95th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

Shortly before retiring to his first-class cabin on the Titanic on the night of April 14, 1912, Charles Melville Hays offered a fellow passenger a chillingly timely prophecy about the intense trans-Atlantic steamship rivalry then under way between the White Star, Cunard and Hamburg-American lines.

Mariana Assaf was rescued from a lifeboat she’d been shoved into barely an hour before the world’s largest and most famous passenger ship, the Titanic, disappeared into the depths of the North Atlantic.

Monday April 9, 2012, marks the 95th anniversary of the beginning of the battle of Vimy Ridge.

The Titanic’s plunge into the frigid Atlantic was predicted several years before the disaster — not by an oracle or in a conspiracy theory but in seemingly innocuous works of fiction about shipwrecks.

It’s a battle sacred to Newfoundlanders yet virtually unknown to most other Canadians. But on Easter Sunday, students from across Canada joined together at Beaumont-Hamel, France, to ensure that the memory of the soldiers who fought and died at the 1916 battle would live on.