Possible Blackbeard Ship Cannon Found
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Underwater archaeologists have found another cannon from the wreckage of what they believe was the flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard.
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A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt &#151; more than a century ago.
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. - Two young siblings playing in the woods near their home found a small, inactive military practice bomb. The device was found Saturday and after the children dragged it to their house, authorities identified it as an inactive military round, WCSC-TV reported.
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Tycho:  I understand he's posting these around his neighborhood, now, and I mean real Gabe, not the jpeg Gabe like you might see sur le web. If you did find it, I wouldn't bring it back to him. The most likely scenario is that he will assume that you're the one who stole it, and your "reward" will be a savage karate style maneuver delivered to your "sack of toys."
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Boffins go back to the drawing board Researchers have located the most massive stellar black hole ever discovered, just three million light-years away in a nearby galaxy. The stellar remnant is in a binary system known as M33, orbiting a huge companion star. The researchers say the find is "intriguing", because of what it suggests about stellar evolution.â¦
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The wreck of a 17th-century ship found preserved in a sandbar in southern Ireland five years ago could well be the navy flagship of England ruler Oliver Cromwell, according to a Irish government archaeologist.
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From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that is costing taxpayers millions of dollars and could cause environmental misery that will cost millions more.
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BOSTON - Last week, Dan Holmes was a couple of miles off Wood End Lighthouse in Provincetown and had already hauled up 80 of his 300 lobster pots when he saw something coming up in a trap.
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You can keep your Bluebeards and your Blackbeards. The most successful pirate of all time controlled a fleet of more than 1,500 ships and upwards of 80,000 sailors -- and she did it all without the help of facial hair.
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IT is one of only two complete specimens ever known to be found - and it is causing a stir. The 7m-long Longman&#39;s beaked whale, which washed up on a beach at Byron Bay, was last seen in Australia in 1882.
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MILLBRAE, Calif. Federal authorities are investigating one of the region&#39;s largest gun heists in years after a gun dealer reported dozens of firearms missing from a Millbrae storage locker.
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Hubble Space Telescope -- An international team of astronomers is announcing today that they have identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and
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"The treasure in this case is the wreck itself."  A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island.The barnacled cannons and anchors found stacked beneath just 10 feet of crystalline coastal waters off Catalina Island are believed to be the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship abandoned by the Scottish privateer in 1699, Indiana University researchers say.'When I first looked down and saw it, I couldn't believe everybody missed it for 300 years,' said Charles Beeker, a scuba-diving archaeologist who teaches at Indiana University. 'I've been on thousands of wrecks and this is one of the first where it's been untouched by looters.' Read more
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Burglar was armed with a gun stolen from a British base or smuggled in from a war zone
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VLT Finds Smallest Galactic Object with JetsJets of matter have been discovered around a very low mass 'failed star', mimicking a process seen in young stars.
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By Joey Holleman, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Dec. 7--Look! Up in the sky! Is that an exceedingly slow shooting star, a really high-flying jet or a UFO that lost its bearings on the way to Roswell?   Nope. That's space shuttle Discovery.
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Politics: 24 October 2004, Sunday. Turkish authorities reported that the new claims over the fate of the Bulgarian sailors who went missing after their ship Hera sank near the Bopshorus strait.