[blam]

GGG Ping.

Foca (Phokaia)

[blam]

Uluburun Wreck

[duckman]

...where scientists will make a presentation on Foça colonies as well as..."
...Foca U, a college in France.

[Verginius Rufus]

Bodrum is ancient Halicarnassus, the birthplace of the historian Herodotus, and where the Mausoleum of Mausolus was built.

According to Herodotus, the Phocaeans abandoned their city rather than submit to Persian rule, dropping a mass of iron into the sea and swearing not to return until the iron floated (but more than half got homesick and came back anyway)...the rest settled in the west and later founded the city of Velia or Elea, later home of the philosopher Parmenides.

[SunkenCiv]

Replica of 3,300-year-old shipwreck arrives in Bodrum [ Uluburun II ]
Turkish Daily News (thanks, curmudgeonII) | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 | unattributed
Posted on 07/02/2006 9:51:33 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1659519/posts

Minoan ship to ply Greek seas for first time in 3,500 years
Discovery Channel | Fri Oct 3, 2003 4:41 AM ET | editors
Posted on 07/25/2004 10:54:47 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1178453/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[Graymatter]

Phokaia ping!

[Cold Heart]

BTTT

[norton]

Interesting,
and almost as much fun to read as a 1960's Honda repair manual.
What the heck is 'Sabotage Day'?
(Google brought me back to the same article and several references to democrats.)