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Zach Cruthirds
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Mast Dancer
I didn't think I was afraid of heights until I was roughly forty feet in the air. When you're that high on either mast if you move, the boat moves. The seventy foot twenty five ton wooden sailboat suddenly looks so small beneath you. It's unsettling. Every time I went up the mast it took me about ten or fifteen minutes to get comfortable.
By Zach Cruthirds3 years ago in FYI
The West Florida Republic
To understand the West Florida Revolution, one must first understand its establishment as a colony by the French. At the time of the West Florida Revolution in 1810, the boundaries of West Florida stretched from the Mississippi River east to the Perdido River and from the 31st parallel south to the Gulf of Mexico. Originally this area had been controlled by the French as a part of their Orleans Territory from 1717-1763 and extended north to the 32nd parallel but all other dimensions were the same. In 1763, the French lost the Seven Years War against Britain and had to cede West Florida to the British and the Louisiana Territory to Spain. Then in 1783 after the successful American Revolution as a part of the Treaty of Paris, the British had to cede West Florida to the Spanish. The U.S. and Spanish set the northernmost border at the 31st parallel during the Treaty of San Lorenzo 1795.
By Zach Cruthirds3 years ago in FYI
Finders Keepers! Right?
Notions of sunken shipwrecks and buried treasure have long plagued the human imagination. But "does finders keepers" really apply? Who actually owns shipwrecks once they're found? Consider the case of Northeast Research, L.L.C. v. One Shipwrecked Vessel.
By Zach Cruthirds3 years ago in FYI
Departure
A knife…I’ll need a good knife, Ethan thought. In a flurry of excitement, Ethan quickly scribbled down the word “knife” on the first page of his little black notebook. There were knives in the galley, but none of those would do. No, Ethan needed a very particular type of knife. Ethan ran his left hand through his greying brown hair as if it would generate more ideas for things he would need.
By Zach Cruthirds3 years ago in Criminal