Tuesday Trivia, Take 2
Aug. 7th, 2018 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribI was going to say something about the latest tsunami of BS coming from the alt-right, namely Q-anon, but I'm having a hard time deciding what to say. I mean, it's clearly BS. Why would somebody with a "Q" level clearance (which is used by the Department of Energy, not Defense) be warning people on the Internet about pending actions? Especially the kind of highly questionable if not illegal actions of arresting powerful American citizens and shipping them to Gitmo. But logic, facts, and the alt-right have never been friends. (Huh. Looks like I did say something about the Q.)
Having gotten that off of my mind, have a preview of this week's trivia corner for the Darien Rotary Club's newsletter:
On this date in 1679, Le Griffon (French for The Griffin) became the first true ship to sail the Great Lakes. She was built on or near Cayuga Creek, a tributary of the Niagara river, by the French explorer La Salle. The ship was a 45 ton, 7 gun sailing barque. The ship departed Niagara and sailed through the Great Lakes, ending up in late September on either Washington or Rock Island, which are the two largest islands off of the tip of what is now the Door County peninsula. There they met up with a group of friendly Indians and some French fur trappers who had traveled ahead by canoe.
Trade was conducted and on September 18 the ship headed back to Niagara, loaded with fur. La Salle remained in the area to continue to explore. This proved fortunate for him as the ship never made it back to home base. The search for the wreckage of Le Griffon has become a cottage industry among divers and archaeologists in the Great Lakes area.
source: Wikipedia.
Having gotten that off of my mind, have a preview of this week's trivia corner for the Darien Rotary Club's newsletter:
On this date in 1679, Le Griffon (French for The Griffin) became the first true ship to sail the Great Lakes. She was built on or near Cayuga Creek, a tributary of the Niagara river, by the French explorer La Salle. The ship was a 45 ton, 7 gun sailing barque. The ship departed Niagara and sailed through the Great Lakes, ending up in late September on either Washington or Rock Island, which are the two largest islands off of the tip of what is now the Door County peninsula. There they met up with a group of friendly Indians and some French fur trappers who had traveled ahead by canoe.
Trade was conducted and on September 18 the ship headed back to Niagara, loaded with fur. La Salle remained in the area to continue to explore. This proved fortunate for him as the ship never made it back to home base. The search for the wreckage of Le Griffon has become a cottage industry among divers and archaeologists in the Great Lakes area.
source: Wikipedia.
