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Items Found by Kayaker.
Source: See TheGuardian.com link below.
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Objects from a possible Roman shipwreck have been found off the coast of Kent in one of the most unusual archaeological finds in living memory.
The chance discoveries were made by a kayaker in the sea off Ramsgate. The tide was low enough and the water clear enough for him to reach down and pull out beautiful cobalt blue glassware and high-status Roman pottery, called Samian ware.
Mark Dunkley, a marine listing adviser with Historic England said it was the sort of find which just did not happen in the UK. “It is the rarity of the material and the quality of the material that is really significant. In my experience this stuff just does not exist in an underwater context anywhere around Britain...
For more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/17/kayaker-finds-rare-roman-glass-and-pottery-off-kent-coast
One good thing about glassware and potterys is that you can often find it when conditions are not good for finding things like coins.
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An employee of a Tempe, Ariz. hotel was arrested trying to sell stolen Super Bowl rings belonging to Mark May at a pawn shop in Las Vegas, according to Joe Enea and Shane Dale of ABC 15...
Behnert allegedly tried to sell the pair of rings for $12,000, which raised immediate questions by the staff. Considering a single 2006 Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl ring issued to defensive lineman Montae Reagor is currently listec by the store for $80,000 and a 1989 Denver Broncos AFC Championship ring issued to defensive lineman Greg Kagan is listed for $60,000 the asking price for the rings was understandably curious...
One good thing about glassware and potterys is that you can often find it when conditions are not good for finding things like coins.
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An employee of a Tempe, Ariz. hotel was arrested trying to sell stolen Super Bowl rings belonging to Mark May at a pawn shop in Las Vegas, according to Joe Enea and Shane Dale of ABC 15...
Behnert allegedly tried to sell the pair of rings for $12,000, which raised immediate questions by the staff. Considering a single 2006 Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl ring issued to defensive lineman Montae Reagor is currently listec by the store for $80,000 and a 1989 Denver Broncos AFC Championship ring issued to defensive lineman Greg Kagan is listed for $60,000 the asking price for the rings was understandably curious...
For more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/pawn-stars-shop-helps-nab-thief-trying-to-sell-mark-mays-stolen-super-bowl-rings/ar-AAEvu09?ocid=spartandhp
Asking too little can raise suspicions, yet I suspect there was more to it than that.
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The first ever excavation of the main allied field hospital at the Battle of Waterloo has uncovered sawn-off limbs and musket balls fired during a previously unrecorded fight on the steps of the farm where the Duke of Wellington’s medics worked...
The heavy concentration of balls found at the site, fired both from the allied Brown Bess infantry muskets and the smaller calibre French weapons, suggests that a fight also took place there, potentially after Napoleon’s generals ordered a cavalry charge on the grounds of Mont-St-Jean, now an orchard, which lay about 0.3 miles (600 metres) behind the main allied line...
For more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/17/excavation-of-waterloo-field-hospital-unearths-limbs-and-musket-balls
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,,, “I think this is a unique case,” he says. “We excavated 120 trenches in this area, covering more than half an acre, and found almost nothing and no other remains.” In fact, the soldier is not just the only one to have been found in this area—he is the first and only British soldier to have fought and died at Waterloo ever discovered on the site. (Another soldier was supposedly found in the early twentieth century; however, later DNA analysis showed that the remains came from two different people and that that “soldier” was a forgery.) Although the soldier’s head and one of his knees were destroyed by a bulldozer, and some of the bones of his hands and feet were damaged either by a plow—the area has long been a wheat field—or perhaps by a battlefield explosion that tore them away, the skeleton is remarkably intact. Bosquet is able to say that he was between 20 and 29 years old, about five feet three inches tall, with a slender frame....
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Soldier From Battle of Waterloo Identified.
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| Source: See Archaeology.org link below. |
,,, “I think this is a unique case,” he says. “We excavated 120 trenches in this area, covering more than half an acre, and found almost nothing and no other remains.” In fact, the soldier is not just the only one to have been found in this area—he is the first and only British soldier to have fought and died at Waterloo ever discovered on the site. (Another soldier was supposedly found in the early twentieth century; however, later DNA analysis showed that the remains came from two different people and that that “soldier” was a forgery.) Although the soldier’s head and one of his knees were destroyed by a bulldozer, and some of the bones of his hands and feet were damaged either by a plow—the area has long been a wheat field—or perhaps by a battlefield explosion that tore them away, the skeleton is remarkably intact. Bosquet is able to say that he was between 20 and 29 years old, about five feet three inches tall, with a slender frame....
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| Source: See Archaeology.org link below. |
For more of that story: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/79-1303/features/535-waterloo-british-soldier-dominique-bosquet
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The Apollo 11 takeoff was projected onto the Washington Monument. Would have been nice to see.
Here is the link.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=video+of+apollo+on+washington+monument&view=detail&mid=BE0EC691C7688123122BBE0EC691C7688123122B&FORM=VIRE
Here is more about that.
https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/18/washington-monument-apollo-11-50-anniversary-moon-landing/
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The Apollo 11 takeoff was projected onto the Washington Monument. Would have been nice to see.
Here is the link.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=video+of+apollo+on+washington+monument&view=detail&mid=BE0EC691C7688123122BBE0EC691C7688123122B&FORM=VIRE
Here is more about that.
https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/18/washington-monument-apollo-11-50-anniversary-moon-landing/
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