Spanish Armada Vessel Found Loaded With Booty
The Santa Maria de la Rosa, a Spanish Armada ship sunk in 1588 off Blasket Sound, has been found by divers after a four month search. Treasure remains disputed with experts noting the ship was likely a converted merchantman and treasure claims may hinge on future salvage efforts.
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Cmdr
John Grattan
Britain
Royal Navy
Blasket Sound
Philip of Spain
Maria
Spain
London
John P. King
Tom P. Kilfeather
Santa Maria de la Rosa
Sobering Retribution in Montana Theft Note
In Great Falls a stranger left a large carton at a cable TV office containing a sleeping bag a fire extinguisher tools and a note claiming drunken theft remorse. The note offered $10 to cover a hole cut in a wall and officials say the items were stolen from a microwave repeater site on Mt Bal dy. In Hodgenville Kentucky a granite memorial shelters the log cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809 nearby.
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Hodgenville, Ky
Abraham Lincoln
Here
Apollo 7 Week Declared in Apollo Pa Town
Apollo 7 Week honors the 11 day space voyage. Town council passed proclamation minutes after Apollo 7 splashed down in the Atlantic Tuesday.
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Apollo, Pa
Pennsylvania
Atlantic
Wartime AMA Chief Predicts Vast Medical Changes
San Francisco AP reports Dr. Dwight Locke Wilbur, president of the American Medical Association, foresees drastic shifts in medicine over 10 to 15 years. Group practice expands, family doctors fade, care centralized in large centers, with assistants and computers handling histories and exams to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
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Dwight Locke Wilbur
American Medical Association
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AMA
Ray Lyman Wilbur
the Interior
Herbert Hoover
Tibet Plateau Under Communist Pressure Before 1950
Before Communist China overtook Tibet in 1950 the mountain guarded plateau spanning 480000 square miles housed about three million people in a rugged highland region with a distinct cultural heritage and political status.
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China
Tibet
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