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As I recall, it was a source of great annoyance to Tolkien that hundreds of years of British, more specifically English, history had somehow managed to disappear from the popular consciousness to be replaced by tales of chivalry of a very different quality to the events and culture of the time.

 

Somehow? It's no mystery that French/European literary heroes and their European values seeped into the British Isles after the Norman Invasion and the Angevin-Plantagenet Dynasty. It is harder for History not to be biased after such an event, surely!

 

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This thread ended up lost and forgotten? My, I am shocked and appalled!

 

HMS Investigator Wreckage Discovered

The historic ship whose crew discovered Canada’s Northwest Passage has been found 155 years after it was abandoned and sank in this oft-frozen Arctic bay atop isolated Banks Island.

 

The wreck of HMS Investigator was detected in shallow water within days of Parks Canada archeologists launching their ambitious search for the 422-tonne ship from this chilly tent encampment on the Beaufort Sea shoreline.

 

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How the Arctic search team found HMS Investigator

 

Wikipedia on HMS Investigator

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Franklin search vessel found in Arctic

 

Arctic archaeologists have found the ship that forged the final link in the Northwest Passage and was lost in the search for the Franklin expedition.

 

The HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, is in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's Western Arctic.

 

"The ship is standing upright in very good condition," Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada's head of underwater archaeology, said Wednesday. "It's standing in about 11 metres of water.

 

"This is definitely of the utmost importance. This is the ship that sailed the last leg of the Northwest Passage."

 

On shore, not far from the wreck, are what scientists believe are the graves of three British sailors.

 

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100728/national/arctic_investigator_discovery

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cool stuff Prime :) @Litofsky.. you seem to be more interested in current affairs than History/Archaelogical news :p

 

Here's an interesting one:

 

Sword of Robert The Bruce sells for $17,000

 

Robert I was King of The Scots during the early 14th Century. Those who have seen Braveheart may remember the scenes with William Wallace and the Young Robert I.

 

Unfortunately, it was sold into a private collection, so this pic below is probably the closest you'll get to it anytime in the near future :(

 

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It carries an Imperial crown and a crowned lion rampant between the inscription ‘Pro Rege Et Regno Anno 1331′, and on the other with a similar panel enclosing one of the devices of the Douglas family, a wild man (wodewose) with a heart on his left breast between the inscription ‘For Strength In Stier This [the heart] I Bier’ (for strength in battle this heart I bear).

 

source: The History Blog <<... If you like History, this is a great blog to follow :)

 

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Robot to explore mysterious tunnels in Great Pyramid

 

"For 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid at Giza has enthralled, fascinated and ultimately frustrated everyone who has attempted to penetrate its secrets.

 

Now a robotics team from Leeds University, working with Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, is preparing a machine which they hope will solve one of its enduring mysteries."

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/robot-to-explore-mysterious-tunnels-in-great-pyramid-2046506.html

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Shackleton’s whiskey thawed after 100 years

 

In 2006, a team from the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust found a crate of ‘Mackinlay’s Rare Old Highland Malt Whisky’ under the floorboards of Shackleton’s hut at Cape Royds on Ross Island, Antarctica. The whiskey was buried in solid ice along with 4 crates of brandy. Shackleton had brought the liquor with him on his 1907 Nimrod expedition and left it behind when he went home in 1909.

 

Case released from ice under hutWhiskey connoisseurs got excited because the original recipe for this particular brew is lost, and given the optimal preservation conditions of Antarctic freeze, this could be the resurrection of a historical liquor. Gratification had to be delayed, however. The crate was frozen solid, embedded in the ice. It wasn’t until just a few months ago that the ice melted just enough for the crate of whiskey, still frozen solid, to be taken out. It was sent to the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, for very gradual defrosting and very ginger analysis.

 

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/7124

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Robot to explore mysterious tunnels in Great Pyramid

 

"For 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid at Giza has enthralled, fascinated and ultimately frustrated everyone who has attempted to penetrate its secrets.

 

Now a robotics team from Leeds University, working with Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, is preparing a machine which they hope will solve one of its enduring mysteries."

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/robot-to-explore-mysterious-tunnels-in-great-pyramid-2046506.html

 

Known as the Djedi project, after the magician whom Khufu consulted when planning the pyramid...

No wonder no one can penetrate its secrets! It was built using a Djedi Mind Trick!

 

 

sorry...

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