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Internet Assignment #2
Queen Anne’s Revenge

http://unc.edu/depts/cmse/sciences/Blackbeard.html
This website approaches the aspect of research from a scientific point of view by addressing the following questions: How can scientists be certain this is the Queen Anne's Revenge, since nothing recovered so far has that name written on it?, and Why will it take so long (as long as five years, according to press accounts) before articles from the ship can be exhibited to the public?
The question to the first question is the easier of the two to answer. Scientists are convinced primarily by these reasons: 1) In the first of the archeaologic dives, the diver’s recovered a bell dated 1709 which proves that the wreckage under the sea isn’t any older than 1709. 2) The artifacts recovered were all consistent with the date of the wreckage which was 1718 and nothing has been found that would conflict with that. 3) The ship is known to have carried at least twelve cannon. This is......

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