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Matt Roloff is what The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center likes to call an “upstander.”His role as patriarch of the family on TLC’s popular reality series ” Little People, Big World ,” is only one of the ways in which Roloff has advocated for the rights of little people. An actor, author, farmer and businessman, he has served as president of Little People of America — a social and …

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A Holocaust scholar known for his human rights work will share his experiences with students at Central Michigan University this week.Alan Jacobs, creator of the award-winning virtual tour of Auschwitz at www.remember.org, will host student workshops at Kaya Coffee House Wednesday from 12 to 5:30 p.m.

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Polish Jewish leaders expressed disgust Wednesday over a visit to Poland by British writer and convicted Holocaust denier David Irving, and an anti-racist group called for legal action against him.

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Cunard’s 3 Queen ships rendezvous in NYC – Yahoo! News

NEW YORK – Thousands of New Yorkers turned out to watch the historic rendezvous of Cunard’s three Queen ships – the Queen Victoria, Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth 2 – in the waters off Lower Manhattan.

The three grand ships with the trademark red-and-black smokestacks lined up in front of the Statue of Liberty while colorful fireworks lit up the winter darkness for the once-in-a-lifetime event Sunday night.

“This is amazing,” said John Stella of Staten Island, part of the crowd watching the spectacle from the Manhattan waterfront. “You’ll never see it like this again.”

The QE2 is being decommissioned later this year and turned into a floating five-star hotel in the United Arab Emirates. The Queen Victoria was launched just last month. The two vessels sailed in tandem across the Atlantic to New York, then met up with the QM2, which homeports in Brooklyn.

On Monday, the Queen Victoria and the QE2 continued their world tour together. They were due to arrive in their next port of call, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Wednesday. This is the Queen Victoria’s first trip around the world and the QE2′s 26th and last.

The ships encountered rough seas on their trip from England to New York last week, including waves so high that they washed over the bow of the Queen Victoria. No one was injured, according to Cunard spokesman Brian O’Connor. The waves did not wash over the bow of the QE2, which is taller in front than the newer ships.

The rendezvous with the QM2 Sunday started about a half-hour late because it took more time than expected to get the QE2 in place. Cunard spokesman Brian O’Connor said the QE2 has older propulsion and navigation technology than the other two and had to be guided by tugboats.

The QE2 will make one more final call in New York before retiring, on Oct. 16, as part of its “Farewell to America” trans-Atlantic crossing.

The QE2 is the longest-serving vessel in the 168-year history of the Cunard line. Since launching in 1967, it has traveled more than 5 million nautical miles, including more than 800 trans-Atlantic crossings with 2.5 million passegers. The ship was sold for $100 million to Dubai World, an investment company that manages projects for the government in Dubai.

Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor of CruiseCritic.com, said the QE2 “represents a previous era, in style and substance, of ocean liners, and it’s an era that so many of today’s younger, newer-to-cruising travelers will never see.”

The Queen Victoria has three classes of passengers, but the differences in amenities are not as distinct as they were on the QE2. The staterooms are smaller but more of them have balconies. Like the other two ships, it has a “Queens Room” ballroom where elegant events are held, as well as a pub where guests can wash down fish and chips with a pint.

But the new ship has some features that the others do not, such as a 6,000-volume, two-deck-high library, a “Cunardia” history museum, fencing classes and a theater with private boxes.

Both the QM2 and the Queen Victoria also have restaurants overseen by the celebrity chef Todd English in addition to their regular dining rooms. English was on the Victoria greeting visitors Sunday, saying, “I’m here to tweak things.”

The 151,000-ton QM2, which began sailing in 2004, is the largest of the three, carrying 2,592 passengers in 1,296 staterooms, plus 1,253 crew members.

The 90,000-ton Queen Victoria, which will homeport in Southampton, carries 2,014 passengers in 990 staterooms, plus 1,001 crew members.

The 70,000-ton QE2 carries 1,792 passengers in 1,002 staterooms, plus 921 crew members.

Steve Sturley and his 8-year-old son Brammy, whom he described as a “Cunard fanatic,” took a Circle Line boat ride in New York Harbor Sunday night to watch the three ships and the fireworks from the water. The family plans to cruise on the QM2 next summer.

Asked what he thought of the ships, Brammy said, “They are big.”

Cunard Line, a unit of Carnival Corp., is building a new Queen Elizabeth at Italy’s Fincantieri shipyard, which built the Queen Victoria, with delivery in 2010. The new vessel will be Cunard’s second-largest after the QM2. It will allow Cunard to keep three Queens in service after the QE2 retires.

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