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Here is a bit of an interesting story that is now circulating.
The ancient pocket change — the oldest ever found in North America — could explain how pirate Capt. Henry Every vanished into the wind.
A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve one of the planet’s oldest cold cases.
The villain in this tale: a murderous English pirate who became the world’s most-wanted criminal after plundering a ship carrying Muslim pilgrims home to India from Mecca, then eluded capture by posing as a slave trader.
“It’s a new history of a nearly perfect crime,” said Jim Bailey, an amateur historian and metal detectorist who found the first intact 17th-century Arabian coin in a meadow in Middletown.
That ancient pocket change — the oldest ever found in North America — could explain how pirate Capt. Henry Every vanished into the wind...
Here are a couple links for more of that story.
Thanks to those who sent the links.
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Shalom Aleikhem!
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| Vintage Easter Basket Filled by the Bunny About Seventy Times. |
Easter Bunny arrived again.
I'm doing mostly Easter today. although I always found Easter a good time for metal detecting. Not an Easter egg hunt, but a hunt nonetheless. There is the hope in the unseen, the symbolism of things being returned from the earth, etc. And some Easter metal detecting finds are very appropriate to the occasion.
Not only is Easter celebrated around the world, but people around the world are celebrating Easter, even if it is in some limited form.
I received the following Easter greeting from one of my wife's distant relatives, who is a priest in Slovenia. He mentioned how they are dealing with Covid as well.
Najlepša hvala za velikonočna voščila in pozdrave!
Tudi jaz tebi in vsem tvojim želim veselja, zdravja in blagoslova za veliko noč.
Mi smo zdravi, vendar pa imamo trenutno zelo stroge ukrepe zaradi Covid-19.
Maše imamo brez udeležbe ljudstva, povsod nosimo maske, držimo razdaljo.
V tem tednu bom prejel cepivo.
Marjeta in njena družina so kar v redu, seveda pa včasih zdravje tudi kaj ponagaja.
Marjeta ima 71 let, njen mož Danilo pa 72.
Hčerka Karmen ima 48 let, hčerka Vanja pa 41 let.
Vsi lepo pozdravljamo tebe, mamo in vse ostale, ki so z vami!
Ludvik
Translated.
Thank you so much for the Easter greetings! I wish you and all of you and all of you joy, health and blessings for Easter. We are healthy, but we currently have very strict measures due to Covid-19. We have masses without the participation of the people, we wear masks everywhere, we keep our distance. I'm going to get a vaccine this week. Marjeta and her family are pretty good, but of course sometimes health is a big thing. Marjeta is 71 and her husband Danilo is 72. Daughter Karmen is 48 and daughter Vanja is 41. We all welcome you, your mother and everyone else who is with you!
Ludvik
Ludvik's church is very historic, incorporating stones from a Roman settlement, and with construction dating to the 1600s.
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| Leskovec Parish Church in Slovenia |
Sure would be some good metal detecting around there.
Happy Easter,
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