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523: Revived Edition

The Scathing Atheist

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Who the Fuck Knows?

The Carol A. Deering was a five-masted commercial schooner that launched from Puerto Rico in July of 1920 to pick up a load of coal in Rio de Janeiro. It disappeared during the return voyage only to reappear in January of the next year, run aground and denuded of its crew near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. When the ship was found, it had been sabotaged in several ways and the crew's personal belongings were all missing along with the lifeboats,. So it's almost certainly a case of mutiny. But some journalists still suspected piracy, specifically communist piracy. The headquarters of United Russia Workers Party in New York City at the time were raided

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