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  • Just Who Is Rewriting History?

    11/26/2018 12:20:51 PM PST · by fwdude · 19 replies
    Barbwire ^ | November 26, 2018 | Dr. Jerry Newcombe
    Glenn Beck has recently raved about a book on the faith of George Washington, helping to propel the book to #1 on Amazon for six days in a row. MediaMatters, which is funded by George Soros, accuses this book of being “revisionist history.” But just who is rewriting history? The book in question is near and dear to my heart, because I co-wrote it. The chief author of George Washington’s Sacred Fire is Dr. Peter Lillback, president of Westminster Theological Seminary, who researched the subject for some 20 years before we met. We began to collaborate in late 2004, and...
  • Wreck of the first US ship to defeat the Royal Navy in home waters before she sank in 1779 [tr]

    11/01/2018 6:28:40 AM PDT · by C19fan · 44 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | November 1, 2018 | James Wood
    British satellite historians claim to have discovered the true location of an iconic American revolutionary ship which defeated the Royal Navy off the Yorkshire coast. The famous vessel, the USS Bonhomme Richard, was the first US ship to beat the Royal Navy in British waters before she sank on September 24, 1779. The location of the wreck has long been a mystery, but now a British satellite historian from Harrogate claims to have found it. Tim Akers, 60, used pioneering satellite radar techniques alongside British satellite firm Merlin Burrows to track down the buried vessel.
  • LAWS OF VIRGINIA, MAY 1779−−3d OF COMMONWEALTH

    02/19/2016 5:58:26 PM PST · by Walt Griffith · 26 replies
    VA GEN WEB ^ | 1822 | WILLIAM WALLER HENING
    CHAP. LV. An act declaring who shall be deemed citizens of this commonwealth. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That all white persons born within the territory of this commonwealth, and all who have resided therein two years next before the passing of this act; and all who shall hereafter migrate into the same, other than alien enemies, and shall before any .......
  • Remnants of major naval defeat found

    10/06/2007 6:52:07 AM PDT · by metesky · 17 replies · 1,386+ views
    The Bangor Daily Snooze ^ | 9/6/07 | By Nok-Noi Ricker
     The remains of a wooden vessel are visible at low tide in the Sedgeunkedunk Stream which flows into the Penobscot River in Brewer near the future Cianbro module project site. The remains are rumored to be from a scuttled vessel involved in the Penobscot Expedition during the Revolutionary War. (Bangor Daily News/Bridget Brown) Buy this photo A shovel operator from Dravo Co. in Pittsburgh got quite a surprise one afternoon in 1953 while digging the Penobscot River bottom to construct a new bridge. In the scoop in his machine, he discovered an old cannon, 5 feet, 4 inches long, with a...