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Liz goes for a cruise on the River Tawe and picks up some tidbits:
Three facts from my trip: Swansea has the second biggest tide in the world; the battle of Trafalgar was won thanks to the copper-bottomed boats of the British Navy, the copper having been produced in Swansea; and the only known occasion when yellow fever was transmitted in the UK was when a number of infected mosquitoes travelled to Swansea from Cuba with a cargo of copper ore.
Liz, Swansea and the River Tawe are all in Wales. Have I posted anything about Yellow Fever before? More than I realized.
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HMS Victory is docked in Portsmouth UK. In Sept 2016 I went on board and did a tour. It is huge. See my blog entry then.
As part of my undergraduate geology classes at Western International U in Phoenix, I went on two weekend field trips. One of them was to Swansea, in western Arizona, where the copper ore was mined before it was sent to Swansea in Wales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea,_Arizona
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