| History of a Message in a Bottle,
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| | Broderick,Jr.,13, who wrote the note as
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| Believe it or not, Messages in bottles
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| | part of a class project two years ago.
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| have been used through out history, and
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| | 'I'm writing a letter back.'
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| here are some documented cases ...
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| | Broderick this week received a letter
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| Queen Elizaeth I of England in the 16th
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| | from Anna Isabel Chaves Sousa, 16, who
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| Century used bottles to carry
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| | lives on the island of Santa Maria.
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| intelligence reports.
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| | He was a sixth-grade student of teacher
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| "Elizabeth I once received an
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| | Lynda Stofen at a local elementary school
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| intelligence report by this means and was
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| | when he and his two-dozen classmates
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| so disconcerted to find it had been
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| | launched their message bottles with the
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| opened by a boatman at Dover that she
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| | help of a fisherman, who tossed them into
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| appointed an official Uncorker of Bottles
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| | the ocean. The girl wrote back that her
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| and decreed that no unauthorized person
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| | brother, a fisherman, picked up the quart
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| might open a message-carrying bottle, on
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| | bottle at sea. Wayne's letter was the
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| pain of death".
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| | second from the school to net an answer.
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| "The strangest case was perhaps that of
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| | In November 1982, former sixth grader
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| Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese seaman
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| | Frank Marston heard from a Spanish
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| who was wrecked with 44 shipmates in
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| | merchant navy captain of the Canary
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| 1784. Shortly before he and his
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| | Islands off North Africa.
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| companions died of starvation on a
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| | Miss Stofan said sea message projects are
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| Pacific coral reef, Matsuyama carved a
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| | good writing, ocean and geography
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| brief account of their tragedy on a piece
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| | exercises as students speculate where the
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| of wood, sealed it in a bottle, and then
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| | messages will drift. And Wayne said he
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| threw it into the sea. It was washed up
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| | also made a new friend. Anna asked him to
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| 150 years later in 1935 at the very
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| | be a pen pal".
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| seaside village where Matsuyama had been
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| | In the Lodi, California News Sentinel
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| born".
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| | Newspaper appeared the following UPI
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| "When he was postmaster general for the
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| | article on Friday, August 21, 1987,
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| American colonies, Benjamin Franklin
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| | entitled,
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| realized that, because their whaler
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| | "Writer of 31 year old note in bottle
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| captains knew the currents much better
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| | found"
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| than their English counterparts, American
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| | "Genoa, Wisconsin-
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| ships were crossing the Atlantic much
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| | Joel Gruhn was only 8 years old in 1956
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| quicker than the British mail packets. He
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| | when he scrawled a note, plugged it in a
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| therefore compiled a chart using both the
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| | ketchup bottle and had his father toss it
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| whalers' lore and information he obtained
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| | into the Mississippi River. This week
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| by dropping bottles into the Gulf Stream
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| | Gruhn discovered a Genoa man found the
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| and asking the finders to return them.
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| | bottle and the note last October and had
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| The information he recorded is little
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| | been looking for him ever since. Duane
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| changed today".
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| | Froh, 40, pulled the bottle from the
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| "In 1875 the crew of the Canadian bark,
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| | Mississippi October 31, 175 miles south
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| Lennie, mutinied and murdered the
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| | of Minneapolis, where it had been tossed
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| officers. A steward who was spared
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| | in. He showed it to his wife, Diane, and
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| because he could navigate steered them to
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| | they tried to find its sender. 'My age is
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| the French coast, telling them it was
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| | 8 years old and one-half. I weigh 65
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| Spain, and surreptitiously dropped
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| | pounds. I am 4 feet and 5 inches high.
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| several bottles over the side revealing
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| | The writer of this note is Joe ... . .'
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| the whole story. The French authorities
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| | the note said, becoming undecipherable at
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| found one, boarded the ship, and arrested
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| | the end. It was dated April 2, 1956, and
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| the surprised mutineers".
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| | had a Mound, Minnesota address".
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| "Fragile as it is, a well-sealed bottle
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| | In the Santa Rosa, California, Press
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| is one of the world's most seaworthy
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| | Democrat Newspaper appeared the following
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| objects. It will bob safely through
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| | Associated Press (AP) article in June of
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| hurricanes that can sink great ships. And
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| | 1984, entitled,
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| for most practical purposes glass lasts
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| | "Child's bottled message reaches England"
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| forever. In 1954, 18 bottles were
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| | "Providence, Rhode Island-
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| salvaged from a ship sunk 250 years
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| | Stuffing a message in a bottle and
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| before off the English coast. The liquor
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| | tossing it into the ocean with the hope
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| in them was unrecognizable, but the
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| | of someone ever finding it is the stuff
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| bottles were good as new".
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| | of children's stories- a dream that
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| "It is impossible to predict the
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| | seldom comes true. But James Westerman is
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| direction a bottle will take. Of two
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| | a believer. Westerman thought his
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| bottles dropped together off the
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| | handicapped students would find it fun to
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| Brazilian coast, one drifted east for 130
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| | put messages in bottles found on the
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| days and was found on a beach in Africa;
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| | beach and toss them into Narragansett
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| the other floated northwest for 190 days,
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| | Bay. Last week, more than three years
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| reaching Nicaragua".
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| | after Westerman's students last played
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| "Speed is also bound to vary according to
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| | the message-in-the-bottle game, a letter
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| wind and current. A bottle might be
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| | arrived for Bernice Graser, the principal
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| completely becalmed or, if caught up by
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| | of Westerman's Pleasant View School. It
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| the Gulf Stream at its raciest, might
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| | was from 10 year old Jayne Ayre of
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| travel along at four knots and cover as
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| | Barnstaple, England, who wrote that she
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| many as 100 miles a day".
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| | found the bottle January 29, while taking
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| "The longest bottle voyage ever is
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| | a Sunday stroll on a beach in southwest
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| thought to have been made by a bottle
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| | England with her father. The note inside
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| known as the Flying Dutchman. It was
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| | fell apart when they pulled it out, but
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| launched by a German scientific
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| | the managed to paste it together, she
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| expedition in 1929 in the southern Indian
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| | said. The sender's name, Nomp Travis, was
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| Ocean. Inside was a message, which could
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| | clearly legible, as was the return
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| be read without breaking the bottle,
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| | address: Pleasant View School, Province,
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| asking the finder to report where he
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| | R.I.
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| found it and throw it back into the sea.
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| | I found your name on it and was thrilled
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| It apparently caught an eastgoing
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| | to see it had come all the way from
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| current, which carried it to the southern
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| | America,' the girl wrote to Nomp. She
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| tip of South America. There it was found,
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| | also enclosed a clipping from the North
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| reported, and thrown back again several
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| | Devon Advertiser about her find".
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| times. Eventually, it moved out into the
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| | In the Santa Rosa, California, Press
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| Atlantic, then again into the Indian
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| | Democrat Newspaper appeared the following
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| Ocean, passing roughly the spot where it
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| | AP article on April 27, 1985, entitled,
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| had been dropped, and was cast ashore on
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| | "Refugees Find Freedom, Note in a bottle
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| the west coast of Australia in 1935. It
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| | changes lives"
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| had covered 16,000 miles in 2,447 days (a
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| | "Los Angeles-
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| little over 6 1/2 years)- a respectable
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| | A Vietnamese refugee family arrived in
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| average of more than six nautical miles a
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| | the United States on Friday to a tearful
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| day".
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| | welcome from an American couple whose
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| "In 1953 a bottle was found in Tasmania
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| | bottled message floated 9,000 miles to
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| 37 years after it had been dropped
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| | the shores of Thailand and answered their
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| overboard by two Australian soldiers on
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| | prayers for freedom.
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| their way to France in a troopship. The
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| | 'Welcome to the United States of
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| mother of one of the soldiers recognized
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| | America,' Dorothy Peckham told the family
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| the handwriting of her son who had been
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| | as reporters and photographers swamped
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| killed in action in 1918".
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| | the refugees at Los Angeles International
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| Historical note: Australia fought for her
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| | Airport after an 18-hour flight from
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| mother country, England, against Germany
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| | Singapore. Hoa Van Nguyen, 31, a former
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| on the battlefields of France and Turkey
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| | South Vietnamese soldier, told reporters
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| during World War I. Remarkably, Tasmania
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| | through an interpreter that he's 'the
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| is a State in the country of Australia.
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| | most lucky man in the world.' He said he
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| "A message found on a beach in Maine in
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| | doesn't know why what he called 'a sixth
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| 1944 read: 'Our ship is sinking. SOS
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| | sense' prompted him to pick up the bottle
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| didn't do any good. Think it's the end.
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| | carrying the message from John Henry
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| Maybe this message will get to the U.S.
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| | Peckham and his wife. Nguyen, 31, flew in
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| some day.' It was identified as coming
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| | Friday afternoon with his wife, Joang
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| from the USS Beatty, a destroyer
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| | Kim, 27, who clung to his arm and said
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| torpedoed with heavy loss of life
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| | nothing, their 16 month old son and
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| somewhere off Gibraltar on November 6,
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| | Nguyen's 17 year old brother, Cuong Van.
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| 1943".
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| | Peckham took the sleeping baby, Hoang Gia
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| Historical note: the bottle from the
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| | Thay Nguyen, and grinned widely despite
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| sunken American warship floated to the
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| | tears that streamed down his face. Nguyen
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| shores of that country during World War
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| | then gave the Peckhams a present, a
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| II. The destroyer was probably sunk by a
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| | picture he had crafted while in a refugee
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| German submarine in the Atlantic Ocean
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| | camp in Thailand.
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| off the Southwest coast of Spain.
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| | The family was whisked out of the airport
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| "...both the British and U.S. Navies have
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| | by officials from the Catholic Welfare
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| used bottles extensively to compile
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| | Bureau, who settled the refugees in an
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| intricate current charts. And the
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| | Echo Park apartment rented for them by
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| movements of oil slicks, mines, and even
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| | the Peckhams".
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| fish have been predicted with help of
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| | This information collected from Reader's
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| seaborne bottles".
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| | Digest Strange Stories, Amazing Facts,
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| "Paolina and Ake Viking were married in
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| | printed by the Reader's Digest
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| Sicily in the autumn of 1958, thanks to a
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| | Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New
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| far-traveling bottle. Two years earlier
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| | York in 1976. To order a copy contact
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| Ake, a bored young Swedish sailor on a
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| | Reader's Digest call 800-723-1241 to
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| ship far out at sea, had dropped a bottle
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| | obtain a back issue.
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| overboard with a message asking any
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| | As you can see there are many uses for a
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| pretty girl who found it to write.
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| | message in a bottle through out history,
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| Paolina's father, a Sicilian fisherman,
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| | even today new uses for this age old
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| picked it up and passed it to his
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| | communication device have gone
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| daughter for a joke. Continuing the joke,
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| | commercial.
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| Paolina sent off a note to the young
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| | A Message in a Bottle as a gift,
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| sailor. The correspondence quickly grew
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| | souvenir, alternative to Flowers.
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| warmer. Ake visited Sicily, and the
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| | With the invention of the world wide web
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| marriage soon followed their first
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| | one creative entrepreneur brought the
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| meeting".
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| | world its first Message in a bottle gift.
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| In the Lodi, California News Sentinel
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| | DreamWeaver Studios, brought the first
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| Newspaper appeared the following United
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| | MIB(message in a bottle) to the world via
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| Press International (UPI) article on
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| | the world wide web. This message in a
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| Friday, September 6, 1985, entitled,
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| | bottle is used for every and any
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| "Message in a bottle found, in nine
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| | occasion, from birthday gifts, to
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| years"
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| | Christmas gifts, anniversaries,
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| "Berlin-
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| | To say I am sorry, to say I love you.
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| A message in a bottle dropped into the
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| | lets you design your own or choose from
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| Baltic Sea was found nine years later in
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| | dozens different selections for all
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| San Francisco, the East Berlin daily
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| | occasions and feelings. Since DreamWeaver
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| newspaper Tribune said Thursday. The
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| | Studios creation many variations of the
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| bottle, with numbered message '4,764,'
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| | message in a bottle gift product have
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| was one of 13,000 'posted' into the sea
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| | sprung up all over the world.
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| at Oresund between Denmark and Sweden on
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| | DreamWeaver Studios paved the way for a
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| August 7, 1976, by the East German
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| | message in a bottle to be used as wedding
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| Institute for Marine Studies in
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| | and party invitations. Imagine announcing
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| Warnemuende, the paper said".
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| | your destination wedding with a message
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| In the Lodi, California News Sentinel
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| | in a bottle. Tired of plain boring
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| Newspaper appeared the following UPI
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| | invitations, send your guests a message
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| article on Friday, July13, 1984,
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| | in a bottle.
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| entitled,
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| | A message in a bottle is not limited to
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| "Note in bottle answered after almost two
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| | wedding, but party invitations,
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| years"
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| | promotional products, giveaways at trade
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| "South Portland, Maine-
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| | shows, numerous uses can be found at
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| Nearly two years ago a South Portland boy
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| | DreamWeaver Studios website
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| wrote a note and stuck it in a bottle
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| | A message in a bottle has come along way
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| that was tossed into the Atlantic. He
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| | from the time of Queen Elizabeth, now
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| forgot about it but this week he got an
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| | they are gifts for any occasion and the
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| answer from the Azores- more than 2,500
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| | recipient will never forget the person
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| miles away.'I didn't think the bottle
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| | who sends them a message in a bottle.
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| would make it,' said Wayne
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