Posted on 02/05/2006 3:12:21 PM PST by blam
There's a bit of (Outer) Bankers in my heritage, so I won't deny that. Those days of common piracy and plundering are long gone, however.
These days, we have IRS lawyers instead. ;-)
You have obviously not rented a summer house on the OBX lately.
T'was making a wee joke.
Wow, that is a lot of ship wrecks. Hopefully they will find artifacts that go way back.
Eeeek. Just imagine, you've survived a shipwreck, and you see human beings you're hoping will save you, only they're going to kill you so they can salvage the ship's cargo.
Horrifying.
Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, competes with Jimmy Carter for the title of Worst.President.Ever.
Guinness? Proper Irishmen don't drink Guinness - it's a protestant drink!
Nope, but my cousin Norman (the real estate lawyer) does rent them out. :-)
A goodly number of the ships sunk during WW2 around there were done so with the help of the IRA working for Hitler as spies and guiding his U-boats to hasten the death of many a brave seaman from the UK and US. . .
This area was known as the "Western Approaches" during World War II. German submarines sunk many ships carrying supplies into Britain. It was here that Britain almost lost the war.
Britain was always close to running out of food and war material. The US Coast Guard was escorting convoys prior to American entry into the war but there was a gap and most losses were due to German ability to read the codes the British felt were unbreakable. British evacuation at Dunkirk saved troops but no weapons such as tanks or artillery pieces. It was Britain's fault that their troops got mired down in France and it was Britain's fault that they had insufficent ships and planes to cover the 'gap'.
It was British fault that they did not know how to defeat a wolfpack attacking a convoy. And it was Britain's fault that development of millimeter radar used to spot a submarine was not given high priority.
This polishes Wilson's record somewhat, IMHO.
Well done! The building was a barn, apparently some kind of artist's garret now.
O'Dowds used to be my favorite hangout as well when I lived in KC.
Wilson used the Sedition Act to jail the one opponent who would siphon off votes (he was one the 20th century Dhimmicrat presidents elected by a minority of the popular vote), and Debs still got on the ballot and got votes in 1916. :') FDR interned Asians during WWII... wait a sec... I'm sensing a pattern here... ;')
I wonder if the Spanish Armada left any ships in the areas to be surveyed? Part of the surviving fleet looped around Scotland I think, and I seem to recall armada shipwreck survivors being found in the north.
No there were in fact a number of survivors from the Lusitania. However, the loss of life due to the very rapid sinking of the ship +- Ten minutes caused a very high casualty rate.
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