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If you find a metal detector listed on the internet, and you don't know the dealer, it might be a cheap knock-off. JamminJack alerted me to the long list of unauthorized dealers listed on the Minelab USA web site. It is a long list of dealers that are selling knock-off Minelab metal detectors. Not surprisingly, many are from China, but other countries are represented as well, such as the UK, Indonesia and Turkey. As I think you know, China makes a major industry out of knock-offs and counterfeits. I recently mentioned how many counterfeit coins come from China.
Below is a link to the Minelab USA site that lists those unauthorized dealers. First on the list is Alibaba, which is a kind of Chinese Amazon. The list is long. Take a look.
Known Counterfeit Manufacturers | Minelab Metal Detectors
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Here are a couple paragraphs from a very interesting article about black conquistadors.
And here is an article about one of the most well known of the black conquistadors.
Although most blacks who came to America in early years were slaves, records of the Casa de Contratación show that a good many black freedmen from Seville and elsewhere found passage on westward-bound ships.3 Some of them settled in the Caribbean region, and others followed the tide of conquest to Mexico and Peru, identifying themselves no doubt as Catholic subjects of a Spanish king, with much the same privileges and ambitions as white Spaniards. “Benito el Negro” and “Juan el Negro” (the latter’s real name seems to have been Juan de Villanueva) were encomenderos in the province of Pánuco and thus they should not have been slaves, but we cannot be sure of their origin.4 Spaniards might call anyone with a very dark skin “negro,” and indeed the fact that Villanueva was from Granada makes it seem likely that he was a morisco. On the other hand there is record of an African who apparently crossed the Atlantic as a freeman, participated in the siege of Tenochtitlan and, in subsequent conquests and explorations, tried his hand as an entrepreneur (with both Negro and Indian slaves of his own) in the early search for gold, and took his place as a citizen in the Spanish quarter of Mexico City. His name was Juan Garrido, and he was still alive in the late 1540s when he wrote or dictated a short resume of his services to the crown:...
Here is the link for more about that.
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Interesting times when a nominee for the Supreme Court can't or won't define an elementary school word like "woman" She said she isn't a biologist, but she uses the word endlessly (evidently without being able or willing to define it) and is advertised as the first black "woman" to be nominated to that office, but how are we to know if we don't know what a woman is. I'd also be interested in an operational definition of "black." But they just make it up however it suits them. And how can a person who can't define such a basic word interpret the constitution or rule on women's rights, without being able to define the most basic terms. Of course, it is likely that she is just being dishonest anyhow. If it requires a biologist to define, which her answer seemed to imply, that would mean that gender is biological, which should upset some communities, such as the trans or bi.
If you read the above articles about black conquistadors, you'll notice interesting terms such as "mulatto", which is a antiquated term that was once used to indicate a person with one white and one black parent, along with other terms such as quadroon.
You might want to read some of the novels by George Washington Cable, which give an more in-depth view of 19th century Creole society in New Orleans.
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Nothing new or exciting with the surf predictions.
Happy hunting,
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