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	The "Cutty Sark" burns

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5-21-2007 11:00 PM

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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/691748f5-1a8f-4109-ae31-53a714522fd1/F72080C8-4894-492F-9DA5-7870AB20789C/" 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://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/21/fire.cuttysark/index.html" href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/21/fire.cuttysark/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/21/fire.cuttysark/index.html"><DIV class="cnnSCImgBox"><IMG width="220" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="168" alt="story.blazcutty.ap.jpg" src="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/WORLD/europe/05/21/fire.cuttysark/story.blazcutty.ap.jpg" /><P>Flames and smoke leap from the deck of the historic clipper ship Cutty Sark.</P><DIV class="cnnImgChngrCntrl"><DIV id="cnnImgChngrLbl">Image:</DIV><DIV id="cnnImgChngrBtnCntr"><DIV id="cnnImgChngrPrvsLbl"><IMG width="54" height="8" border="0" id="cnnImgChngrPrvsBtn" alt="" src="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/imgChg/previous.gray.gif" /></DIV><DIV id="cnnImgChngrBtns"><IMG width="10" height="10" border="0" id="cnnImgChngrBtn1" alt="" src="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/imgChg/circle.red.gif" /> <A href="#"><IMG width="10" height="10" border="0" id="cnnImgChngrBtn2" alt="" src="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/imgChg/circle.white.gif" /></A>  </DIV><DIV id="cnnImgChngrNxtLbl"><A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. 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But its glory days were short-lived as steam ships quickly came to replace sail.</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/F72080C8-4894-492F-9DA5-7870AB20789C/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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