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| Quintessential Treasures That Fortunately Were Never Lost. See link below. |
Not lost but still representing the kind of objects that any treasure hunter might dream of finding. I'm sure that out there somewhere are lost objects that are as finely crafter and beautiful as these.
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Down south, Mel Fisher's Expeditions are working on the the well-known Atocha and Margarita sites, but also the less well known "Lost Merchant" somewhere off the east coast of Florida, and another 1622 wreck that has yet to be found.
The Magruder went sifting for emeralds and then back to the area known as the Bank of Spain. Their latest finds included a nice emerald, 1 complete silver candlestick, a piece of a silver plate rim, some pottery shards and half of a silver coin.
The Mel Fisher museum in Sebastian will be reopening on May 8.
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The nature of treasure is changing. I guess it always did. Wealth is becoming less tangible. Most transactions no longer require coins or currency. It is done digitally. Digital currencies include cryptocurrencies, virtual currencies, central bank digital currencies and e-Cash. You've probably heard of bit coin for example.
And you know about the scammers that do their own form of illegal digital treasure hunting by mining the digital information that resides on our computers.
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday warned Americans that the Chinese government’s theft of American information is taking place on so large a scale, suspected incidents make up nearly half of his bureau’s counterintelligence cases.
Speaking at an event hosted by the Hudson Institute in Washington, Wray said that Chinese thefts amount to “one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history,” and that the American people are the victims...
See https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-wray-says-half-of-bureaus-5000-counterintelligence-cases-are-related-to-china
Yesterday I mentioned some of the products of our culture. If you thought China might be a place you could escape from our culture, the Chinese have been going to great lengths to become wealthy by stealing our Culture. Can you believe they even have a Shanghai Disneyland Park?
Now that Crossfire Hurricane is over maybe the intelligence agencies can spend there time on more useful things.
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One great book that I think you'll enjoy is Bill Bryson's At Home: A Short History of Private Life. It goes into the invention or evolution of the things around us and how we live today. It is really an very exceptional book on the history of most everything we encounter in our homes and lifestyles.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
There is a 60% chance that the system up by North Carolina will develop into a cyclone in the next 48 hours. It is expected to continue to the northeast though.
Most days now there is something developing somewhere. I think we are supposed to get 20 some names storms this year. It was upgraded some the last time I saw the forecast.
Looks like the page view counter will hit 2.5 million later today.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net