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The discovery of a 300-year-old ship at a construction site has archaeologists ecstatic
WashingtonPost ^
| January 6, 2016
| Patricia Sullivan
Posted on 01/06/2016 5:01:29 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: SunkenCiv
To: Tennessee Nana
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01/06/2016 5:01:51 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Tennessee Nana
To: Tennessee Nana
To: Tennessee Nana
To: Tennessee Nana; Fred Nerks
Why its the old USS Obama Shoobama mentioned in a footnote in Wet Dreams of My Father by president Obama.
The Shoobama was a slave ship that was taken over by slaves who had rebelled against their slave masters!
Federal funding is ON the way!
Wonders never cease! /SARC.
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posted on
01/06/2016 5:06:13 PM PST
by
Candor7
(Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
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01/06/2016 5:06:16 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: Tennessee Nana
Old Town Alexandria and Georgetown are two great places for nightlife in the DC area. The C&O Canal tow path and the bike trail to Mount Vernon are great for daytime exercise.
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01/06/2016 5:07:55 PM PST
by
Monterrosa-24
( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47)
To: Tennessee Nana
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posted on
01/06/2016 5:08:03 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Tennessee Nana
Apparently wooden ships have a relatively short life. That they are sunk at a dock is not a surprise.
We likely have all sorts of wooden ship construction details from the millennia now.
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01/06/2016 5:08:48 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Tennessee Nana
Love to have the wood. Could build some pretty cool stuff...
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01/06/2016 5:26:36 PM PST
by
Hatteras
To: Paladin2
It always struck me as odd they were scuttled at a dock. They make poor landfill because the timbers rot away. The hulk interferes with incoming and outgoing ships.
In San Francisco, during and after 1849 gold rush, hundreds of ships were abandoned by their crews who went to search for gold. East of Montgomery St. was a tidal flat filled with ship carcasses. Today, you can’t excavate for a new building there without finding an old ship.
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01/06/2016 5:35:02 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Paladin2
Pic of 1851 Yerba Buena Cove...many of the ships have been abandoned.
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01/06/2016 5:36:49 PM PST
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ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Having worked at a low rent “shipyard” one summer, there were all sorts of hulks stored there by their owners. Daily pumping to keep then afloat there was. That a BIG one should end up on the bottom is not a big surprise.
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01/06/2016 5:38:31 PM PST
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Paladin2
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Having worked at a low rent “shipyard” one summer, there were all sorts of hulks stored there by their owners. Daily pumping to keep them afloat there was. That a BIG one should end up on the bottom is not a big surprise.
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01/06/2016 5:40:00 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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01/06/2016 5:41:17 PM PST
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Paladin2
To: Paladin2
Good point. Those ships probably didn’t have steam powered bilge pumps and those wood hulls leaked like sieves. All the men who could sail the ship or man the pumps were gone, so they probably just sank into the mud on their own. Hadn’t thought of that before.
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01/06/2016 5:47:15 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
The real ‘leakers” had an electric sump pump that I was to activate daily....
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01/06/2016 5:53:06 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Tennessee Nana
Bet the landowner isn’t so ecstatic that his project will never be finished and he’s out $$$$$$$.
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01/06/2016 5:53:41 PM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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