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101-Year-Old Message in a Bottle Surfaces
ABC News ^
| April 8, 2014
| Jaime Lutz
Posted on 04/09/2014 3:23:30 PM PDT by EveningStar
A message in a bottle that was thrown into the ocean in 1913 and recently found by a fisherman off the coast of Germany was returned to the sender's granddaughter.
"It was very surprising," said Angela Erdmann, 62, to The Guardian. "A man stood in front of my door and told me he had post from my grandfather. He then told me that a message in a bottle was found and that the name that was on the card was that of my grandfather."
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Travel
KEYWORDS: 1913; angelaerdmann; germany; godsgravesglyphs; messageinabottle
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To: SunkenCiv
To: EveningStar
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posted on
04/09/2014 3:24:17 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: EveningStar
In before the obligatory reference to The Police song bump...
To: EveningStar; Revolting cat!
“Please leave 2 bottles of milk and one of cream”
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posted on
04/09/2014 3:26:10 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: EveningStar
Was it actually a month ago? ABC finally aired it on my local station this morning.......LOL!
I said WTH, I saw that pic long ago............
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posted on
04/09/2014 3:27:30 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Under Reagan spring always arrived on time.....)
To: EveningStar
Seems like a good Jim Croce song....
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posted on
04/09/2014 3:30:13 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: EveningStar
I love it! My friend's mother passed not long ago and in going through her possessions she found a Bible that belonged to her gggrandfather, who was a preacher in the 1800’s.The Bible had a blank page on the other side of the written word for his sermon notes. Also he had tucked in the pages pictures and old newspaper clippings, etc. She said I could look at it when I have time.
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posted on
04/09/2014 3:30:53 PM PDT
by
Rusty0604
To: SamAdams76
To: EveningStar
“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”
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posted on
04/09/2014 3:46:39 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: WKUHilltopper
He Faced A "Superior" Foe With Nothing But Farmers And Backwoodsmen
He Was Told He Couldn't Win
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posted on
04/09/2014 3:58:01 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
04/09/2014 4:09:09 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: EveningStar
I wonder if the two stamps shown in the photo are worth anything?
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posted on
04/09/2014 4:11:49 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: GrandJediMasterYoda; WKUHilltopper
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posted on
04/09/2014 4:14:19 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
To: StormEye
Maybe in another 100 years or so, debris from MH370 will start washing up on shore.
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posted on
04/09/2014 4:16:35 PM PDT
by
Delta Dawn
(Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
To: EveningStar
I recently found this old post card which was sent to my Grandmother around 1900 when she was a girl. The surprising thing to me is that it is in color. After examining the picture closely it was obviously hand colored.
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posted on
04/09/2014 4:16:52 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: EveningStar
Konrad Fischer, left, and his crew Klaus Matthiesen and Thomas Buick
hold a message in a bottle from 1913 on the fishing cutter "Maria"
in Kiel, Germany, March 5, 2014. (Uwe Paesler/EPA)
To: yarddog
The stamp had fallen off but the postage was only a penny even to Europe.
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posted on
04/09/2014 4:27:40 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: yarddog
Same scene today.
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04/09/2014 4:47:54 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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I recently found this old post card which was sent to my Grandmother around 1900 when she was a girl. The surprising thing to me is that it is in color. After examining the picture closely it was obviously hand colored.
The stamp had fallen off but the postage was only a penny even to Europe.
Same scene today.