World News 09-06-2005 who: Explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell what: Discovers half-submerged wreck of early submarine where: Panama when: This week snippet: "She was built in 1864 by a visionary craftsman, Julius Kroehl, for the Union forces during the American Civil War," explains The Times. "But the boat, called Explorer, was never used in the conflict and was subsequently taken to Panama where she was used to harvest pearls." In other news of unusual discoveries, The Independent reports on the discovery of a gorilla bone on a beach in Seaton Carew which has reignited the legend that during the Napoleonic wars, the people of Hartlepool lynched a shipwrecked monkey dressed in French naval costume because they took it for a spy. [... more]

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