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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 59330.html

More than five centuries after Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, was wrecked in the Caribbean, archaeological investigators think they may have discovered the vessel’s long-lost remains – lying at the bottom of the sea off the north coast of Haiti. It’s likely to be one of the world’s most important underwater archaeological discoveries.

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:It’s likely to be one of the world’s most important underwater archaeological discoveries.

At least until they finally find Jimmy Hoffa....

lb13

I was trying to come up with a clever quip about Flight 340 butwas torn with the 'too soon?' kind of thing.

But I am just thankful that CNN hadn't been covering this all the time the Santa Maria was missing.

christie1111 wrote:I was trying to come up with a clever quip about Flight 340 butwas torn with the 'too soon?' kind of thing.

It's never too soon for me..... though it was the first thing I thought of as well, but had nothing up to my usual smartass snuff.....

lb13

I hope it is the Santa Maria and that the researchers find evidence which leaves no doubt.

What I really hope for is evidence that supports Gavin Menzies’s assertion that the Chinese "discovered" the Americas in 1421.

A mere 150 years but this is of local interest here.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/14/wr ... -sc-coast/

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Researchers think they have found the wreck of the iconic Civil War vessel the Planter — the Confederate ammunition ship commandeered by the slave Robert Smalls, who steamed it out of Charleston and surrendered it to the Union Navy....

Smalls would return to Charleston a year later to pilot a Union ironclad in an attack on Fort Sumter. After the war, he served in the South Carolina General Assembly, the U.S. Congress and as a federal customs inspector.

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:A mere 150 years but this is of local interest here.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/14/wr ... -sc-coast/

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Researchers think they have found the wreck of the iconic Civil War vessel the Planter — the Confederate ammunition ship commandeered by the slave Robert Smalls, who steamed it out of Charleston and surrendered it to the Union Navy....

Smalls would return to Charleston a year later to pilot a Union ironclad in an attack on Fort Sumter. After the war, he served in the South Carolina General Assembly, the U.S. Congress and as a federal customs inspector.

I assume his service in Congress was during Reconstruction? --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:A mere 150 years but this is of local interest here.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/14/wr ... -sc-coast/

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Researchers think they have found the wreck of the iconic Civil War vessel the Planter — the Confederate ammunition ship commandeered by the slave Robert Smalls, who steamed it out of Charleston and surrendered it to the Union Navy....

Smalls would return to Charleston a year later to pilot a Union ironclad in an attack on Fort Sumter. After the war, he served in the South Carolina General Assembly, the U.S. Congress and as a federal customs inspector.

I assume his service in Congress was during Reconstruction? --Bob

He was in the House from 1875 to 1887. He was in State office from 1868 to 1874. He was U.S. Collector of Customs in Beaufort, serving from 1889–1911.

He was a Republican

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:He was a Republican

Yep, back when they were the good guys.

Bob Juch wrote:

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:He was a Republican

Yep, back when they were the good guys.

No, back when personal accountability, the rule of law, and the Constitution meant something.

BackInTex wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:He was a Republican

Yep, back when they were the good guys.

No, back when personal accountability, the rule of law, and the Constitution meant something.

And equality under law