Santa Maria Found?

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

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.

[littlebeast13]

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

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

lb13

[christie1111]

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.

[littlebeast13]

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

[SportsFan68]

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.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

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.

[Bob78164]

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

[Bob Juch]

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.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

He was a Republican

[Bob Juch]

He was a Republican

Yep, back when they were the good guys.

[BackInTex]

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.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

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