Shipwreck may be part of Kublai Khan's lost fleet

[Lars77]

Source: CNN

In Japanese legend they are known as The Kamikaze -- the divine winds -- a reference to two mighty typhoons placed providentially seven years apart which, in the 13th century, destroyed two separate Mongol invasion fleets so large they were not eclipsed until the D-Day landings of World War II.

Marine archaeologists now say they have uncovered the remains of a ship from the second fleet in 1281 -- believed to have comprised 4,400 vessels -- a meter below the seabed, in 25 meters of water off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan.

Scientists are hoping they will be able to recreate the complete Yuan Dynasty vessel from Kublai Khan's lost fleet using a 12-meter-long section of keel. The Mongols ruled China from 1271 to 1368.

According to Yoshifumi Ikeda, a professor of archaeology at Okinawa's University of the Ryukyus, and head of the research team, the section could go a long way to helping researchers identify all the characteristics of the 20-meter warship.

Read more: http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-25/asia/world_asia_japan-archaeology-shipwreck_1_fleet-ship-invasion?_s=PM:ASIA

[catnhatnh]

1. In Xanadu did Kublai Khan...

A stately pleasure dome decree,
Where Alph the sacred river ran,
down caverns measureless to man,
and to the sunless sea...

[DJ13]

2. Frankie Says....

[catnhatnh]

3. Actually...

I believe it was Alfred Lord Tennyson ...

[DJ13]

4. Yes, they borrowed it

But Frankie Goes To Hollywood was a bit more fun than Tennyson.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. I thought it was the gibberish that the alien said to Captain Kirk

when they were stranded on that planet.

[ChazInAz]

5. Coleridge.

[truthisfreedom]

6. Yep. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Written in an opium haze upon awakening from a dream. He was interrupted while writing it and the poem, intended to be 2-300 lines long, remained a fragment. He kept it private and showed it to few people for many years, finally publishing it at the recommendation of George Gordon Byron.

I can personally attest to the amazing creativity associated with opium, and have only experienced it once, to my benefit. I just read the poem in its entirety and long to hear it as it was intended by Samuel, who apparently stunned his listeners when reciting it. But that will never happen, since the fucker died.

[Tansy_Gold]

8. never mind

[Taverner]

9. The coincidence of that set of events just blows my mind

Seven years apart, same navy, same demise...