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You can see the sand that was recently pushed up on the beach.
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More than 450 years ago, a three-masted ship sank in a hurricane off the coast of Florida, taking with it France's hopes of colonizing the peninsula.
Since the Trinite was discovered in 2016, it has been at the center of an epic legal battle between an American treasure hunter and the French government, with Paris recently claiming a decisive victory — or so officials hope.
A 24-page judgment, delivered on September 29 by US Magistrate Judge Allen Winsor in Tallahassee, delved into the distant and largely forgotten era of "French Florida," when a colony was established there by French Huguenots in the mid-16th century...
For seven years, GME and Pritchett have been waging a legal battle over who can claim the wreck, which likely contains other riches.
Standing in the way of GME is the Sunken Military Craft Act (SMCA), a law signed by then-president George W. Bush in 2004 which recognizes the sovereignty of a country over its former warships.
In June 2018, a federal court ruled the ship was indeed Captain Ribault's flagship, and thus a French naval vessel...
Here is the link to that article.
Judge makes ruling on historic Florida shipwreck — and its treasures-operanewsapp
Thanks to SuperRick for that link.
Take a look. It has a lot of additional information.
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Genetic studies suggest that the first people to arrive in the Americas descend from an ancestral group of Ancient North Siberians and East Asians that mingled around 20,000 to 23,000 years ago. They crossed the Bering Land Bridge sometime between then and 15,500 years ago, said David Meltzer, an archaeologist and professor of prehistory in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and author of the book "First Peoples in a New World" (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
But some archaeological sites hint that people may have reached the Americas far earlier than that...
The 1st Americans were not who we thought they were-operanewsapp
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| Source: LiveScience (link below) |
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a 700-year-old silver coin depicting Jesus on one side and a Serbian king on the other in the southeastern village of Rusokastro.
One side of the so-called "silver penny" depicts Stefan Uroš II Milutin, a king of Serbia who greatly expanded his kingdom, alongside St. Stephen, the Burgas Museum, whose archaeologists are excavating the site, said in a statement translated from Bulgarian. The depiction of Jesus seated is shown on the other side of the coin. St. Stephen, who lived in the first century and was killed for his beliefs, was named a deacon by the 12 apostles...
Here is the link for more about that.
700-year-old coin depicting Jesus and medieval king discovered in Bulgaria | Live Science
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On the Treasure Coast the surf today and throughout the week will be around 3 or 4 feet.
The high tides are still running high - around 3 feet.
Good hunting,
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