My friends were just telling me a story about Kellogg last night. He founded the university they went to, so they knew a bit about his history.

Dude was a WHACKjob.

Thanks for this. This is awesome.

Absolute money sink, and something I don't think was worth it, sure preserve the items from the wreck but just insane money spent to get it to a stable condition

Oh I actually have no idea....i think there was some discourse on Twitter

The Vasa went down in the Baltic Sea.

> The Baltic Sea preserves underwater cultural heritage extremely well primarily due to the low light, low salinity and cold temperature that prevent the proliferation of the Naval Shipworm (Teredo navalis), which devours submerged wood

The Vasa is the exception rather that the rule. Most shipwrecks can't be raised, just like the one we're talking about in this post.

"little Holland" sounds like an odd name for a warship. Was it a ship carrying colonists to America or africa?

The pre-Julian Republic calendar was an ordinary twelve-month lunisolar calendar, not unlike the ones in Greece and Mesopotamia. And it wasn't any less functional than those. According to tradition that twelve-month calendar went back to the time of king Numa. The weird ten-month calendar, which this question is about, was the one which it replaced.

Circumcision in America got it's big boost from WWII when the armed forces were concerned about what might develop under the foreskin in the tropical conditions of the South Pacific. Before then it was generally something for Jews.

Iron is not necessarily better than bronze, it's definitely easier to obtain, but bronze had many advantages to iron such as it's non-corrosive traits that made it necessary for sea faring cultures.

That being said, throughout the world iron had it's users as far back as 3000 BCE, and as we see in the near east, even further back.

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Communication wasn't advanced enough to create that level of mass hysteria. That's why the Beatles, and Elvis, are so monumental, they were the first to really be promoted and marketed the way they were. Other groups at the time could have been the Beatles, they just happened to be in the right place and time, but any number of pop acts were also getting the push.

Doesn’t read like satire at all, just quackery.

IIRC the Roman calendar before Julian hardly lived up to it's name. It was confusing at best.

How do you mean? Napoleon was seen as a dangerous and destabilizing influence that was causing a lot of trouble for Britain through his blockade, there were major geopolitical reasons to work at removing him from power, jealousy wasn't on the list.

There is no shipworm in Baltic Sea, that was the main reason for the hull being in a condition that made it possible to raise the wreckage. Shipworm consumes the wood of sunken ships, basically disintegrating them.

Recently came across a world map from 1491 (when Columbus set off from Spain) and wanted to look at more world maps or maps in general from historical time periods

Does anyone know a good book or resource for this? Thanks!

Right?? Like did they find the clothing itchy?? Uncomfortable? Or were they fine with it?

This was the Rampjaar, or Disaster Year, where the Dutch Republic found itself at war with both France and England. A couple of years later the Dutch eventually prevailed and defeated both otherwise larger powers at sea. True Dutch Golden Age

True, I thought that was the case as well but that hypothesis is being challenged recently. Both ideas are also not mutually exclusive. In swamps around the world you can still see the preservation of carbon life forms.

Yea that all sounds nice but we can put ourselves in their shoes. It's not like some alien race that we have no knowledge of. These are people with very human qualities, and if it was obvious to them it should be obvious to us. This is a classic example of where you should apply Occam's razor.

another interesting thing that colonial trade ships used a ballast was porcelain because it was heavy and wouldn’t tarnish due to sea water

Why would they when they came out on top?

I have software source code that was written in the last 10 years at my job at work that is now a mystery that requires unravelling. The exact techniques used to build something that no longer exist are quickly forgotten unless it defines some fundamental technique for the industry. Even then, the overall process isn't likely to be remembered.

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"sounds, probably, deduct" all make sense when trying to make the most of the info we have but they are just best guesses at the end of the day.

For all we know battles were intricate dances and those that got the moves wrong were the ones killed. It's not likely but there's a lot of established history we just take as fact when reality is it's probably 70% guesswork.