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Boat From 1700s Found At World Trade Centre
Sky News ^ | 15th July 2010 | Sky News

Posted on 07/15/2010 12:31:59 PM PDT by the scotsman

'Archaeologists working at the World Trade Centre site in New York have found the remains of a wooden ship apparently buried there more than 200 years ago.

The remains of the 30ft length of a wood-hulled vessel were found when workers excavating the site, where a new World Trade Centre is being built, hit a row of wood timbers, The New York Times reported.'

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 1773; 1773ship; godsgravesglyphs; newyork; radiocarbondating; therevolution
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1 posted on 07/15/2010 12:32:02 PM PDT by the scotsman
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... and the Port Authority Police promptly ticketed it for being an unregistered vessel.


2 posted on 07/15/2010 12:34:38 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

LOL Snort!!

That was funny!!

Now, let me clean the diet coke out of my keyboard and my sinuses.


3 posted on 07/15/2010 12:36:30 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: the scotsman

A lot of lower Manhattan Island is “fill” from hundreds of years ago. I’m not surprised they found an old vessel there, along with parts of other ships.


4 posted on 07/15/2010 12:37:19 PM PDT by CivilWarguy
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


5 posted on 07/15/2010 12:38:10 PM PDT by Pontiac
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Good one! LOL


6 posted on 07/15/2010 12:39:09 PM PDT by Allegra (My seventh chakra is oppressed.)
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To: the scotsman

200 years ago, I don’t think there was any land where the WTC was located. So a ship is pretty much to be expected. It probably sunk there in shallow water and was then buried a couple centuries later.


7 posted on 07/15/2010 12:41:00 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: CivilWarguy
Same thing in San Francisco. Lots of the wharf area were built over abandoned ships.

-PJ

8 posted on 07/15/2010 12:42:47 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

I guess al Qaeda didn’t have planes in the 1700s.


9 posted on 07/15/2010 12:43:38 PM PDT by newheart (History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
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where a new World Trade Centre is being built

Pardon me for nit-picking but "World Trade Center" is a proper name and therefore it should be spelled that way no matter how they spell the word "center" in that context in their country.

10 posted on 07/15/2010 12:45:31 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
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To: the scotsman

Bad GPS?


11 posted on 07/15/2010 12:45:43 PM PDT by JPG (Mr. Gore, or is it Mr. Stone or Mr. Woody? Whatever, you're under arrest.)
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Is it “The Charlotte”?


12 posted on 07/15/2010 12:47:30 PM PDT by Never on my watch (The Obama Administration - an outrage a day)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Quick! Let's call this an archaeological site and stop work immediately on all surrounding areas! One way to stop the “peaceful” Muslim Center!

BTW, d@mn nice office!

13 posted on 07/15/2010 12:49:42 PM PDT by poobear
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why, obviously part of a transport fleet that brought salted pork from England


14 posted on 07/15/2010 12:52:41 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: dead

During the Battle of Brooklyn the Continentals sunk lots of ships in the East River and the Hudson, trying to block British ships movement. It didn’t work, but supposedly they piled up as many sunken ships as they could.


15 posted on 07/15/2010 12:53:07 PM PDT by Huck (Q: How can you tell a party is in the minority? A: They're complaining about the deficit.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

The Brits spell CENTRE one way we spell it CENTER...it’s their news article, so they can spell it anyway they want. Our presstitutes of the screaming media are too lazy to print something so mundane as a 200 year old ship, they’re too busy protecting nobama’s butt.


16 posted on 07/15/2010 12:54:39 PM PDT by tillacum (It's the military, not the press, not the politicians, who keep this country free.)
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To: the scotsman

Radicals will say the ship is from the year 889 and they deserve a mosque on the spot.


17 posted on 07/15/2010 12:55:45 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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I heard they found Jimmy Hoffa too!


18 posted on 07/15/2010 1:00:35 PM PDT by Ancient Drive (DRINK COFFEE! - Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy!)
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Declare the whole area an archeological site. No more muzzie peaceful outreach center.... DANG. I hate it when that happens.


19 posted on 07/15/2010 1:08:54 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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The Brits spell CENTRE one way we spell it CENTER...it’s their news article, so they can spell it anyway they want.

No, when it is a PROPER NAME they may not spell it any way they want if they are going to stick to the rules of English grammar. They have a party called the "Labour Party". That's how it must be referred to here. It's not the "Labor Party" when mentioned in the U.S., because there is no such thing.

A newspaper story in the U.S. writing about the restaurant chain 'H. Salt Fish and Chips' would not call it "H. Salt Fish and French Fries" because that's not the restaurant's name. Just as the building complex in Lower Manhattan has been named the "World Trade Center" it is wrong to rename it the "World Trade Centre." They may however talk about "that famous centre for world trade" in generic terms.

20 posted on 07/15/2010 1:16:44 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
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