Blackbeard's Treasure


	Blackbeard's Treasure

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10-29-2008 11:58 AM

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10-29-2008 3:15 PM

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What a find! Must be a dream come true

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/947e2ffd-3836-4bde-8f01-7187542d1f20/670E6734-CC4E-4105-9B46-68841B60F23B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news14.com/content/top_stories/600895/divers-reveal-blackbeard-treasures/Default.aspx" href="http://news14.com/content/top_stories/600895/divers-reveal-blackbeard-treasures/Default.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">news14.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news14.com/content/top_stories/600895/divers-reveal-blackbeard-treasures/Default.aspx"><DIV id="ctl00_contPlace1_ShowArticleControl_pnlArHeadline">
<SPAN class="headline1" id="ctl00_contPlace1_ShowArticleControl_lblArHeadline">Divers reveal Blackbeard treasures</SPAN>
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news14.com/content/top_stories/600895/divers-reveal-blackbeard-treasures/Default.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news14.com/img/1D9C4EC8-9765-4450-9899-55D72F69F4DB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news14.com/content/top_stories/600895/divers-reveal-blackbeard-treasures/Default.aspx">ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. – Archeologists working on an underwater pirate shipwreck off the North Carolina coast revealed some exciting finds in a ship thought to be that of the pirate Blackbeard.<BR /><P class="story">Divers have been searching through what they believe is the Queen Anne's Revenge since August. Tuesday, researchers unveiled artifacts like a cannon ball, pewter plates and a dagger hilt.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news14.com/content/top_stories/600895/divers-reveal-blackbeard-treasures/Default.aspx"><P class="story">"Artifacts provide us with a tangible link to life in North Carolina when essentially North Carolina was a frontier," Richard Lawrence, of the North Carolina Underwater Archaeology Department, said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news14.com/content/top_stories/600895/divers-reveal-blackbeard-treasures/Default.aspx"><P class="story">Divers even discovered their first coin. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news14.com/content/top_stories/600895/divers-reveal-blackbeard-treasures/Default.aspx">"We're all excited to see what kind of coin it is," Lawrence said. "Is it a French coin, a Spanish coin, an English coin?"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news14.com/content/top_stories/600895/divers-reveal-blackbeard-treasures/Default.aspx"><P class="story">The crew also revealed a 2005 find headed to the Maritime Museum in Beaufort -- a part of a toilet. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news14.com/content/top_stories/600895/divers-reveal-blackbeard-treasures/Default.aspx"><P class="story">“Even pirates would have needed a toilet," Dr. Jeff Crow, of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, said.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/670E6734-CC4E-4105-9B46-68841B60F23B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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