To: JimSEA
Jim,I stand corrected it was Port Royal that was totally desroyed, and also the pirate haven.
It has been a while since I saw the History Channel special on pirates.
291 posted on
01/13/2010 3:20:08 AM PST by
mware
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To: mware
"I stand corrected it was Port Royal that was totally desroyed, and also the pirate haven."
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How I first learned of Port Royal:
295 posted on
01/13/2010 5:11:58 AM PST by
LRS
(Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
To: mware
The only reason I remembered was a very old National Geographic article on the undersea archaeology done on the site. I have always wanted to take up diving but living in the middle of the desert until I got too old has kept me back.
The news out of Haiti is so very sad.
300 posted on
01/13/2010 7:17:26 AM PST by
JimSEA
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