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Colombian army shares pictures of shipwreck carrying billions in lost treasure, including gold, silver and emeralds
Sky News ^
| 8 June 2022
Posted on 06/08/2022 6:57:49 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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"Let me tell you how it will be There's one for you, nineteen for me 'Cause I'm the taxman Yeah, I'm the taxman"...
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posted on
06/08/2022 6:57:49 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/08/2022 6:58:21 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
The Royal Navy sank the galleon in 1708 during the War of the Spanish SuccessionOne of my favorite periods of history to read about.
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posted on
06/08/2022 7:00:14 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
A dream since I was a little girl. I must have a moral deficiency. Except….it’s not the wealth to me. It’s the discovery. In which case, I must have a mental deficiency. ☕️
Nice share this early morning.
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posted on
06/08/2022 7:02:45 AM PDT
by
FryingPan101
(God bless us one and all.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
that the Spanish empire had plundered from South America, Typical leftist twaddle.
They didn't plunder it. It was locked in rocks in the ground before they arrived. They created it.
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posted on
06/08/2022 7:05:51 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: FryingPan101
I’m the same way. It’s about the adventure, the hunt, the discovery. Finding these treasures hundreds of years old, is almost like time traveling. Holding something in your hand that was last held 300-400 years ago. It’s not about what they’re worth, it’s about the wonder of it all.
To: PGR88
Well, there was that room that Pizarro ordered the Incas to fill up with gold, and if gold was later dug up by enslaved Indians (as it was) to take back to Spain, the Spanish could be said to have plundered it.
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posted on
06/08/2022 7:08:52 AM PDT
by
x
To: PGR88
“You didn’t build that!” - Barack Obama
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posted on
06/08/2022 7:09:52 AM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Mr taxman we seen no stinking gold.
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posted on
06/08/2022 7:15:43 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
( )
To: DUMBGRUNT
One thing that I do know - if I stumbled on a huge find like that, I’d scoop up a bit before letting anyone know about it.
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posted on
06/08/2022 7:18:00 AM PDT
by
BobL
(My hatred of Necons/Globalists exceeds my love of Ukraine or any other country, other than the US)
To: x
Yeah then they garroted the king anyway.
To: PGR88
They didn't plunder it. It was locked in rocks in the ground before they arrived. They created it.
Well, there is the fact they they used native slave labor to extract it, so some discussion of fair compensation might be valid, but the time interval makes it difficult to determine, at best.
Frankly might just be best to leave sleeping dogs lie, and dump a few thousand square meters of crushed concrete on it.
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posted on
06/08/2022 7:21:52 AM PDT
by
larrytown
(A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
To: FryingPan101
—”Except….it’s not the wealth to me. It’s the discovery. “
It is about climbing the mountain, the peak is a denouement.
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posted on
06/08/2022 7:40:07 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
To: DUMBGRUNT
“Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
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posted on
06/08/2022 8:00:49 AM PDT
by
seowulf
(Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
To: DUMBGRUNT
My favorite sunken treasure shio involves a modern freighter called the SS Politician that went down off, IIRC, the Scottish coast with a load of booze and money.
Not all of which was recovered.
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posted on
06/08/2022 8:07:22 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Rurudyne
officially recovered, that is
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posted on
06/08/2022 8:08:20 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Wondering why the writer felt compelled to snidely include Ehrlichman’s association with Nixon.
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posted on
06/08/2022 8:21:25 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: seowulf
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posted on
06/08/2022 8:26:57 AM PDT
by
FryingPan101
(God bless us one and all.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
The Spanish earned it because they had the technology to extract it.
To: FryingPan101
I knew a woman whose daughter worked on the Atosha find... lots of cool stories.
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posted on
06/08/2022 8:39:51 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(It's NOT 'gun violence' it's 'CRIMINAL VIOLENCE'- RAPE isn't penis violence - it's criminal violence)
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