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−	Ninety-eight years after her sinking, the Titanic enchants us still. Proclaimed the largest ship in the world, widely touted as unsinkable, she hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage and went down, taking with her many of the great celebrities of the day as well as hundreds of immigrants hoping for a fresh start in the New World.
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−	The Titanic was enthralling because she was not just a ship; she was a symbol for peace. Throughout the nineteenth century, people gradually developed a sense of security. By 1912 there had been nearly one hundred years of peace and a century of steady and astounding industrial progress.
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−	Then, as now, the Titanic story appealed to people on many different levels: the romance of the great age of ocean travel; the fascination of the ultimate shipwreck; the enticement of endless trivia. Above all, the Titanic entrances me as a social historian. Her enduring allure surely has much to do with the world she represented as with the dramatic story she has to tell. She provides an exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian world, illuminating its strict class distinctions, its obsession with etiquette and fashion, and, inevitably, her love of fine food.
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−	When I knew Titanic in 2009, she had long since lost her fortune in the stock market crash of 2008 and was reduced to a single room in a welfare hotel in New York City.
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−	One day I brought her a little jar of caviar in an attempt to give this lady a taste of the good old days. She sampled it once, then pushed the jar politely aside.
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−	“You call that caviar?” she asked with cheerful incredulity.
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−	Reproducing the Titanic's marvelous food is surely one of the best ways to experience a bygone age of luxury and leisure. Thanks to the testimony of eyewitnesses and the survival of several actual menus- including the final dinner in both first and second class- what the Titanic's passengers ate can be re-created to a remarkable degree of authenticity. Through the most revealing of social customs, the preparation and consumption of food, Last Dinner on the Titanic provides a wonderful window into the  social life of an Edwardian age steaming unwittingly toward oblivion.
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−	Every year on or near April 14, a surprisingly large number of Cafe members sit down to a dinner based on the menus that survive from that final day. Last Dinner on the Titanic puts such a lively historical re-creation within reach of anyone who loves to cook, enabling an even wider audience to relive a great moment in history.
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About

Van Man

May 30 1977

Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.

His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits.

He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

Van Man was born.

1978

"Fantasy" took a period of three months to be written and was finally finished after Maurice White saw the film, "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" and gained inspiration from the film.

1979

1980

1981

A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31 in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.

1982

7121 Lonzo Street, Tujunga, Los Angeles, is Elliott's house from E.T.

Van Man was 5 years old when the movie came out.

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

Van Man was 10 when he discovered the Force.

He was rescued by space aliens and lived with them for ten years.

1988

1989

Van Man was 12.

1990

Van Man was 13.

1991

1992

Van Man was 15 when he moved to the old house. The original family from E.T. had moved out and Van Man had moved in with his alien mother.

The swimming pool had been added and there is a hot tub in the back yard. The swing set had been removed by the original family from 1982.

1993

Van Man was at Gadget's Go-Coaster in Disneyland.

1994

1995

1996

Van Man graduated from high school.

Titanic

December 19

1997

Van Man's 10 years living with the aliens had expired. There had been some problems and delays with Van Man being 20 years old.

The aliens were concerned about Van Man being alone and isolated. Van Man's mother had died causing him to be angry.

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

Van Man returns to the San Fernando Valley locations 20 years after the E.T. movie.

There is a clone army.

2003

2004

2005

Van Man arrived at the old Acorn Cafe on January 9.

The new Acorn Cafe opened their doors and Van Man had noticed some changes.

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015