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Salvage Vessel At Dock.
Submitted by JamminJack. |
This time of year the salvage vessels are usually all snug in their beds.
It is not common to have this much small surf this time of year.
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DJ sent me the following link to a Robert Marx lecture that he enjoyed. You might like it too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvYZaA0xkkA
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| New Silver Floral Ring Find. |
I think I found one like that before. I don't think it is old shipwreck even though it appears to be unmarked.
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I visited St. Lucie Pawn and Jewelry yesterday. You can and purchase reales and escudos there, as well as musket balls and various artifacts and meg teeth.
You might enjoy looking them over. The jewelry store on Midway Road a few blocks west of US 1 also has some shipwreck coins and items you might like to look at.
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Yesterday I was talking about interpreting photos and other images, particularly historical images. I showed the same photo of Ferdinand and Isabella shown below.
There was something very obvious in that painting that you should have noticed, but I bet many people missed it. How about you?
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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
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Notice the composition. Isabella is in front of, and in the photo shown as more prominent than, Ferdinand. Did that strike you as odd at all?
Such important photos are very carefully composed. The smallest details can be important signals. But this is big and in plain sight.
So why is Isabella displayed as the most prominent of the two?
You will find the answer in the following paragraph.
Henry died in December 1474 and Isabella was proclaimed Queen. She asserted her rights when Ferdinand insisted taking precedence. The government agreed Isabella was the true heiress of Castile and Ferdinand’s authority derived from her. Ferdinand was not happy but Isabella managed to soothe his wounded vanity and made him see reason.
Source:
Isabella Clara Eugenia - Wikipedia
Funny thing is, even though I had the wrong couple, it seems the
That's right. Just as portrayed in the painting, Isabella was the most prominent of the two in power and position.
Surprising what you can tell from a historic portrait if you are a careful and analytic observer.
Maybe you thought it was just accident or aesthetics, but very little in such an important painting would be left to accident or whim.
Now you can get into the smaller details. Is that a pelican sovereign on her chest and in her hair?
Here is a good web site that provides some additional clues on how to interpret historic images.
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We've been getting some nice north winds, but very little surf.
And the tides were big for a while, but still, very little surf.
It looks like the surf will in increase in a few days, but it doesn't look to me like it will be enough to help the beaches much.
Happy hunting,
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