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Shipwreck could have local ties (The Post and Courier)

The slave ship Trouvadore sank off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841 on its way to Cuba. Its recent discovery might reveal one more piece of the secret history of the illegal slave trade in the Lowcountry. Some of the ship's captives might have been on their way to slavery in Charleston. People who took in survivors might well have been the former slaves of Lowcountry plantation owners. The ...

Stephen Moss on the crisis facing The Kennel Club and the future of Crufts (Guardian Unlimited)

'We are the tiniest production company on the planet - there are more dogs here than staff," Jemima Harrison tells me when I am arranging a visit to her Wiltshire farmhouse. She isn't exaggerating. There are two and a half staff - Harrison herself, who writes, directs and produces films, as well as cooking excellent sausages in her smoke-filled kitchen; partner Jon Lane, co-producer and ...

Ex-German seaman recounts a sailing ship’s double life (New Haven Register)

Long before U.S. Coast Guard cadets were hoisting sail on the training ship Barque Eagle, Tido Holtkamp was climbing her rigging.

Shipwreck jolted Alaska salmon industry (Anchorage Daily News)

A century ago this year, an iron-hulled, three-masted sailing ship departed the Southeast Alaska fishing town of Wrangell laden with 5,260 cases of salmon.

Japan's Document on Tok Islet Discovered (Korean Central News Agency)

Pyongyang, December 4 (KCNA) -- A document was discovered at the Hamada History Hall in Shimane Prefecture of Japan. It proves that Japan admitted that Tok Islet is part of the territory of Korea.