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By: Anonymous: Jean Dagenais () on Sunday, February 21 2010 @ 03:03 PM EST
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Quote by: vickrbGOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE!!
Sorry for not being online - have been getting ready for my dear friends from Germany and have been very busy wtih them.
I trust everyone has been fine and I can see by the posts, that Jean has been very busy. My goodness, where do you get the patience? Such interesting articles. The memories are wonderful things to share. I would not have wanted to live in the times of the great depression. I believe there is still one of the Silkirks from Ontario that lives here in Cayman. Even has a street named after him.
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JEAN I have been e-mailing you for over week and no reply. What's up girl? **** WELL VICKIE I HAVE SENT TO you many LETTERS, NOTES YOU NAME IT AND NOT A WORD FOR A WEEK FROM YOU SINCE YOU HAD TROUBLE ON THE OTHER tHREAD WITH YOUR COMPUTER. SO IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME YES. I hope your guest arrived ok. and that you have a sparkling good time having fun. and lots oF talking ( haha)i CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOUR NOT GETTING MY MAIL THEY AREN'T ON ANY DON'T SEND THAT I KNOW OF AND WHY WOULD THEY BEhah I'M NOT FEELING WELL AND CAN'T PUT A FINGER ON IT, ONE PILL A DAY SHOULDN'T MAKE ME WANT TO SLEEP ALL THE TIME... i SEeM EXHAUSTED... Trust you will send a letter soon.Miss you. Jean
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By: Anonymous: Jean Dagenais () on Sunday, February 21 2010 @ 03:12 PM EST
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Quote by: vickrbGOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE!!
Sorry for not being online - have been getting ready for my dear friends from Germany and have been very busy wtih them.
I trust everyone has been fine and I can see by the posts, that Jean has been very busy. My goodness, where do you get the patience? Such interesting articles. The memories are wonderful things to share. I would not have wanted to live in the times of the great depression. I believe there is still one of the Silkirks from Ontario that lives here in Cayman. Even has a street named after him.
JEAN I have been e-mailing you for over week and no reply. What's up girl? I have mailed you often to no avail. I thought maybe it was because of what happened on the otherr thread with your camers so have waited tohear from you and absolutely nothing has ever arrived. Miss you Vicki So if and when you have time I will enjoy hearing from you again, ok Jean
I would like that Slkirk to know about thisThe dirty 30,s do you know him to talk to him because I will be hunting up names to see if I can find thm ok "
if I find anything I will let you know so you can tell him :Jean
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By: Anonymous: Jean Dagenais () on Sunday, February 21 2010 @ 03:36 PM EST
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Nationality - Born in Italy. Lived in Portugal and in Spain. Patrons - King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
Lifespan - 1451 - 1506
Family - Respectable, but impoverished family. Christopher Columbus was the eldest of five children. Christopher Columbus had two sons by different mothers. His heir was Diego Columbus (1480 - 1526). His second and favorite son was Ferdinand, better known as Fernando ( 1488 - 1539)
Education - Limited due to lack of money in the family
Career - Explorer and Navigator
Famous for discovering the New World, yet he died thinking he had reached the Indies. A man called Regiomontanus was famous as a Medieval Scientist, Mathematician and Astronomer. His book Ephemerides was used by Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci to measure longitudes in their explorations of the New World.
The Ships of Christopher Columbus - Explorer and Navigator
The names of the Ships of Christopher Columbus:
The Nina
The Pinta
The Santa Maria
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By: Anonymous: Jean Dagenais () on Sunday, February 21 2010 @ 03:46 PM EST
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Johann Müller Regiomontanus
Chrispher Columbus used his theory,for navigational inf.
1436 - 1476
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Regiomontanus or Johann Müller was a German scholar who made important contributions to trigonometry and astronomy.
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By: Anonymous: Jean Dagenais () on Sunday, February 21 2010 @ 03:52 PM EST
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 Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria *** I remember taking this particular essay in school and never forgot the names of those ships, life is funny isn;t it> Jean
Johann Müller Regiomontanuswith the map
Here thet are. Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
Christopher Columbus departed from Spain on August 3, 1492, on a fleet of three ships: the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. Nina and Pinta were both smaller, sleeker ships, called caravels. Santa Maria was a larger, round-hulled ship, called a nao. Columbus himself sailed on, and piloted, the Santa Maria. Together, the three ships carried about 120 men, equipment and supplies.
Of the three ships, only the Santa Maria was built with a deck, and it was a much slower, heavier ship, with a keel that was about 115-feet long (35 meters). Both Nina and Pinta were about 50 feet long (15 meters). All three ships were armed. The Nina sailed under Vicente Yanez Pinzon, and the Pinta sailed under his brother, Martin Alonso Pinzon.
The goal of the voyage was to find a new passage to Asia. After a few "wrong turns", the crew landed in the New World, on one of the Bahama Islands, on October 12, 1492. The island was later renamed San Salvador by the Spaniards.
In November, the Pinta disappeared in a strong wind. On December 25, 1492 (Christmas Day), the Santa Maria ran aground and was completely destroyed. Later, in January, the Pinta rejoined the Nina. Columbus returned to Spain on the Nina, arriving in March of 1493. The Pinta arrived soon afterwards.
Columbus always believed that he had arrived in the Indies, never fully realizing the extent and importance of his discovery.
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By: Anonymous: Jean Dagenais () on Sunday, February 21 2010 @ 05:39 PM EST
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“Real” Crusoe’s isle said to yield clues to sojourn***** Vickie you might want to read this and tell the Selikirk man about it.PROBABLY related I would imagine....The dates are right...
Cast away on a desert island, surviving on what nature alone can provide, praying for rescue but fearing the sight of an enemy boat. These are the imaginative creations of Daniel Defoe in his famous novel Robinson Crusoe.but
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Yet the story is thought to be based on the real experience of sailor******* Alexander Selkirk, marooned in 1704 on a small tropical island in the Pacific for more than four years.
New clues support contemporary records of his stay on that island, archaeologists say. A paper in the research journal Post-Medieval Archaeology describes evidence of an “early European occupant” from a dig on the island of Aguas Buenas, since renamed Robinson Crusoe Island.
The foremost evidence is a pair of navigational dividers which could only have belonged to a ship’s master or navigator, as evidence suggests Selkirk was, researchers said.
An account by **********Selkirk’s rescuer, Captain Woodes Rogers, of what he saw on arrival at Aguas Buenas in 1709 lists ‘some practical pieces’ and mathematical instruments amongst the few possessions that Selkirk had taken with him from the ship.
The finds also provide an insight into how******** Selkirk might have lived on the island, investigators added. Postholes suggest he built two shelters near to a freshwater stream, and had access to a viewpoint over the harbour from where he would be able to watch for approaching ships and discern whether they were friend or foe.
Accounts written shortly after the rescue describe him shooting goats with a gun rescued from the ship, and eventually learning to outrun them, eating their meat and using their skins as clothing. He also passed time reading the Bible and singing psalms, and seems to have enjoyed a more peaceful and devout existence than at any other time in his life, according to researchers.
“The evidence uncovered at Aguas Buenas corroborates the stories of**** Alexander Selkirk’s stay on the island and provides a fascinating insight into his existence there,” said David Caldwell of National Museums Scotland, one of the researchers. “We hope that Aguas Buenas, with careful management, may be a site enjoyed by the increasing number of tourists.”
Selkirk was born in the small seaside town of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland in 1676. A younger son of a shoemaker, he was drawn to a life at sea from an early age. In 1704, during a privateering voyage on the Cinque Ports, Selkirk fell out with the commander over the boat’s seaworthiness and chose to remain behind on Robinson Crusoe Island where they had landed to overhaul the worm-infested vessel. He apparently didn’t suspect five years would pass before he was picked up by an English ship visiting the island.
Published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous adventure stories in English literature. Whilst it is unclear whether *****Defoe and Selkirk actually met, Defoe would certainly have heard the stories of Selkirk’s adventure and used the tales as the basis for his novel, according to Caldwell and colleagues.
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By: vickrb (offline) on Sunday, February 21 2010 @ 06:00 PM EST
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Quote by: Jean Dagenais Quote by: vickrbGOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE!!
Sorry for not being online - have been getting ready for my dear friends from Germany and have been very busy wtih them.
I trust everyone has been fine and I can see by the posts, that Jean has been very busy. My goodness, where do you get the patience? Such interesting articles. The memories are wonderful things to share. I would not have wanted to live in the times of the great depression. I believe there is still one of the Silkirks from Ontario that lives here in Cayman. Even has a street named after him.
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JEAN I have been e-mailing you for over week and no reply. What's up girl? **** WELL VICKIE I HAVE SENT TO you many LETTERS, NOTES YOU NAME IT AND NOT A WORD FOR A WEEK FROM YOU SINCE YOU HAD TROUBLE ON THE OTHER tHREAD WITH YOUR COMPUTER. SO IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME YES. I hope your guest arrived ok. and that you have a sparkling good time having fun. and lots oF talking ( haha)i CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOUR NOT GETTING MY MAIL THEY AREN'T ON ANY DON'T SEND THAT I KNOW OF AND WHY WOULD THEY BEhah I'M NOT FEELING WELL AND CAN'T PUT A FINGER ON IT, ONE PILL A DAY SHOULDN'T MAKE ME WANT TO SLEEP ALL THE TIME... i SEeM EXHAUSTED... Trust you will send a letter soon.Miss you. Jean
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I have sent an e-mail every day to you. NOthing blocked from this end either. I don't block anyone. The thread problem everyone had - I had Richard straighten it out - was someone posting an ad in too large a print format.
I get no mail from you at all. I am sorry you are not feeling well. It could be that the large doses need t work out of your system so the 1 a day can take over. Give it time and just rest when you are sleep, it is your system asking for rest.
Company arrived safe and sound and we had a fun day today.
I miss you e-mails.
Vicki
Vicki - since 30 April 2009
God Gives every bird it's food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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By: Anonymous: Jean Dagenais () on Sunday, February 21 2010 @ 08:15 PM EST
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Good Night all. Jean
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