Posted on 05/22/2007 12:04:55 PM PDT by Renfield
Go to the Wikipedia profile on Prince Henry the Navigator and read the section on his Resources.
"hmmm, rrrrrrrrrrrr, hmmm, maties, uh... rrrrrrrrrrrr...."
And people wonder why Wikipedia isn't a good resource. Good catch...
Heh.
“Henry also had other resources. When John I died in a car accident, Henry’s eldest brother Duarte became Queen, and granted Henry a “Royal Flush” of all profits from trading within the areas he discovered”
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The ivory possibly came from the Russian arctic where the mammoth creatures died in a tsunami 10,000 years ago.
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