Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Impatient with the corporate world's slow decision making, he had quit GM to race down a faster track. He had persuaded Britain's frugal government to give him $156 million and used it to turn vacant land outside Belfast into an ultramodern auto factory site in just 2½ years. When his flashy De Lorean sports cars failed to sell, his company edged toward bankruptcy. But these antics only made more headlines and added to the De Lorean myth and mystery...
...Mussacbusctis refendrum question would require another refendrum before a Mussecliasetts waste disposal site could be built. If passed it could leave Harvard researchers without a dumping ground after 1986. When the Hanford she will become unavailable to Harvard in compliance with a 1980 lording waste producers to find burial site closer to home...
More than a century later, the image of the wreck haunted the imagination of Alexander McKee, a historian who skindived throughout the Solent in order to find the vessel. In 1966 he discovered a 19th century naval chart that marked the site of the sinking. Says McKee: "I was electrified." Using undersea scanning technology developed by Electrical Engineer Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McKee found the remains of the Mary Rose buried in a watery depression. For four years the historian and a band of amateur divers dug away, sometimes with their bare hands, until they discovered...
Before the ultimate lifting, the site of the Mary Rose had yielded a fabulous trove of Tudor memorabilia. Aside from cannons, by 1979 the divers began to bring up boxes of clothing, medicine chests and such objects as carpenters' tools, coins and pocket sundials, the Tudor equivalent of watches. One special find: a shawm, the 16th century forerunner of the oboe. Few other examples of the antique instrument are known to exist. Also recovered were the bones of about 100 drowned men. Scientists are studying them for clues about nutrition and disease in the Tudor...
...more excavation proceeded around the burial site, however, the more salvagers of the Mary Rose were caught up in a race against time. What remained of the hull of the vessel after cen turies of erosion was a near perfect cross section, but the modern digging exposed Mary Rose's surviving timbers to the destructive scouring of tides and the appetites of marine organisms. In August 1980 the decision was made by the growing legions of Mary Rose salvagers to plan last week's dramatic lift. The salvage attempt had the blessing of Prince Charles...