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‘Come dive with us:’ The politics of archeology

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

On April 22, 2022, locked in an epic struggle for its very existence, the government in Kyiv took the seemingly incongruous step of declaring the recently sunken Russian warship Moskva a Ukrainian underwater cultural object.

Moskva had been hit nine days earlier by two Neptune anti-ship missiles fired from somewhere south of Odessa.

The sinking was particularly satisfying to Ukrainians, not only because the 39-year-old missile cruiser was the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet or that it was in the vanguard of Russia’s invasion of their country, but because it was Moskva that had ordered Ukrainian troops garrisoned on Snake Island to surrender, only to be told: “Russian warship, go fuck yourself!”

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Daughters of the King now mothers of Canada

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

In the mid-1660s, King Louis XIV of France had a problem.

He wanted to establish a strong and profitable colony in North America. But male workers who finished their contracts and soldiers who left the army did not stay on in New France. It was no way to build a colony.

An incentive was needed to keep them in Canada. The king’s advisor Jean-Baptiste Colbert had a solution.

Women. And in short order, children.

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