HMS Endeavour: Captain Cook’s missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago

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• Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Neat! Reminds me of the recent findings of the HMS Terror and Erebus, granted due to location things are FAR better preserved. Love that we’re finding all these old chunks of history just barely floating beneath the waves.

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  • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I read a definitely non fiction account of that called The Terror by Dan Simmons. Crazy stuff went down apparently.

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lord Sandwich.

  What a name lmao

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  • menzentian@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    From Wikipedia: The sandwich is named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an eighteenth-century English aristocrat. It is commonly said that Lord Sandwich, during long sessions of cribbage and other card games at public gambling houses, would order his valet to bring him roast beef between two pieces of toasted bread. He was fond of this form of food because it allowed him to continue gambling while eating, without the need for a fork, and without getting his cards greasy from eating meat with his bare hands. The dish then grew in popularity in London, and Sandwich’s name became associated with it.

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  • SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah well they’d taken away the cook…

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