You are right about that. Sources dispute about whether it means "Good man Richard" or "Poor Richard", and I don't speak French so I don't know which is right....
USS Bonhomme Richard and HMS Serapis http://buddventures.blogspot.com/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/allthingshistory/ http://myspace.com/reactor_budd...
*Ancient quarry used for Second Temple discovered* Yedioth Internet [Israel], 09.26.07 The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Sunday the discovery of a ...
Vatican paper set to clear Knights Templar By Malcolm Moore in Rome Last Updated: 2:08am BST 05/10/2007 The mysteries of the Order of the Knights Templar could...
Technically the second National Park in the US was Mackinac Nat Park in Michigan, which was turned into a state park 20 years later. The second permanent...
*Archaeologists Probe Secret Tunnels in California* FOX News [USA], September 27, 2007 Tunnels run beneath Chinatown in Fresno, Calif.: brick-walled passages ...
*Ancient Fishermen Lured Fish With Fire* Discovery News, Sept. 25, 2007 Fishermen around areas mentioned in the New Testament worked the night shift, suggests...
There is actually a long standing debate as to whether the famed soldier, governor and president was born in South or North Carolina for two reasons. One is a...
Hello Kim, Many objects, mummies among them, tend to discolor and darken wih age. Few people consider that many Renaissance paintings that look darkened were...
*The amazing Golden Ratio* Al-Ahram [Egypt], 27 September - 3 October 2007 It is said that a well-proportioned face must lie in what is called a "golden...
*Oldest wall painting said found* Oct. 11, 2007 Special to World Science *Archaeologists have found an 11,000-year-old wall painting underground...
*Long-lost text lifts cloud from Knights Templar * *700-year-old document shows pope absolved order of heresy charges* The Associated Press Updated: 1:10 p.m....
*New Discoveries in Ebla* [Syria] Syrian Arab News Agency, October 04, 2007 Italian renowned Archaeologist Paulo Mattieh on Thursday shed light on the most...
While the Germans began using derigibles in 1909 for passengers, it was Tony Jannus who operated scheduled flights across Tampa Bay from Tampa to St...
The Benoist XIV, piloted by Tony Jannus, became the first commercial, scheduled airline service, flying across Tampa Bay from Tampa to St Petersburg. ...
*Archaeologist loses important artifact *The Daily Northwestern [USA], 10/5/07 The story sounds like the foreword to a Dan Brown novel or the introduction to...
from a test pilot who "bought the farm" ((got killed)) during a test flight. Andrew Tristan <nitsirtthecommie@...> wrote: How did Edwards Air Force Base...
*Ancient boats surface as Lake Trafford [Fla.] dries* Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 2007-10-06 From a distance, the brown object near the bank of Lake Trafford...
*Silent victims of the sea: rising tides threaten archaeological sites* The Independent [UK], 7 October 2007 When the Neolithic farmers and hunters of Skara...
