New Clues From the H. L. Hunley

New clues from the H.L. Hunley...

It seems that scientists may be closer to finding the solution to the nearly 160-year-old puzzle to why the Confederate submarine Hunley foundered and went down outside Charleston Harbor in 1864.

No shock wave. No gunfire from sorrounding Union blockaders... it seems that after Hunley planted the charge that sunk the U.S.S. Housatonic she may have drifted away, taken by the currents, as her crew rested at their crank-handle stations.

And then, scientists theorize, the crew succumbed one by one to oxygen deprivation, dying in their seats. Scientists this week found that the eight-man crew of the hand-cranked Confederate submarine had not set the pump to remove water from the crew compartment, which might indicate it was not flooded but rather sank after the crew had perished.

FBI Tracing Treasure Trove of Art

Leslie James Skelton
Pike's Peak from Manitou Peak, Colorado - one of several dozen paintings found in the apartment of William M.V. Kingsland.

More than 300 works of art—paintings, sketches, sculptures, and other pieces by such artists as Pablo Picasso, John Singleton Copley, Alberto Giacometti, Giorgio Morandi, and Eugene Boudin — were discovered in this man's apartment after his death.

Well known in New York City’s art circles as an engaging and intelligent connoisseur of art, books, architecture, and genealogy. But when he died, he left no will… and no apparent heirs to claim the floor-to-ceiling stacks of paintings and art works crammed into his one-bedroom apartment man of which have been confirmed as stolen, according to the FBI.

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