Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 peopleâslightly more than half of the number on board, and one third of her total capacity. After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading west to New York. On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship's time.
A: The line fair is foul and foul is fair is from the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, and it means that what appears to be beautiful is actually ugly, and vice versa. The play centers around themes of deception.
You might foul your room to the point where it smells a bit foul. In general, foul can be used as an adjective meaning bad. Foul luck is bad luck; a foul day is a bad day. As a verb, foul can mean break the rules. Itâs used this way in sports, like when you commit a foul on the basketball court. The phrase foul play can be used in the context of sports or more generally, to indicate unfair or violent behavior. Avoid confusing foul with fowl, which refers to birds, especially chickens.