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The Infamous ‘Folsom Prison Nickel’
What follows is the text of an article which appeared in San Francisco’s The Call newspaper, March 10, 1898. Outside of California residents, most of the rest of the world was to first hear the name Folsom Prison in the 1955 hit song “Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash. In 1968, Johnny Cash performed live at the…
The Treasure from the SS City of Cairo
In 2013, Deep Ocean Search Ltd, a British-led team, successfully retrieved £34 million of silver coins from a shipwreck in the South Atlantic ocean. Working at a depth of 3.2 miles, the operation set the world record for the deepest salvage of cargo in history. When the news was made public in 2015, it was…
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