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07-30-16, 02:13 AM | #1 | |
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How a Champagne-Laden Steamship Ended Up in a Kansas Cornfield
How a Champagne-Laden Steamship Ended Up in a Kansas Cornfield
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07-30-16, 03:20 AM | #2 |
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Cool stuff.
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07-30-16, 04:20 AM | #3 |
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I'm more surprised how deep it is.
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07-30-16, 09:00 AM | #4 | |
Eternal Patrol
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Still, cool discovery.
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07-30-16, 09:27 AM | #5 |
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07-30-16, 02:42 PM | #6 |
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A 'brace' of pistols!
THANKS ONKEL stuff like this makes my day.
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07-30-16, 03:03 PM | #7 |
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That's what I found irritating as well.
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07-30-16, 03:13 PM | #8 |
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Downstream boats are cargo laden while upstrem are mostly empty.
Industry and population centers were on the coast so ore, coal and grain was shipped downstream. |
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Western history: one thing just flows into...the Missouri!
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Fast, nasty, and full of logs, the Missouri was treacherous and the chain of western rivers feeding into it equally so. Boats 'grasshoppered' their way upstream; hence the Corps of engineers interest in the project to make it navigable. Quote:
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08-01-16, 01:59 PM | #10 |
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That is really something. The clay pipes are very neat indeed.
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