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H. L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War. The Confederacy lost 21 crewmen in three sinkings of the Hunley during her short career. The submarine was named for her inventor, Horace Lawson Hunley, shortly after it was taken into service under the control of the Confederate Army at Charleston, South Carolina.First Crew: Frank Doyle, Absolum Williams, John Kelly, Nicholas Davis, Michael CaneThe first crew was lost on August 29, 1863, while preparing to make a test dive to learn the operation of the submarine when Lieutenant Payne accidentally stepped on the lever controlling the sub's diving planes while the boat was running. This caused Hunley to dive with her hatches still open, flooding the submarine. Payne and two others escaped, while the remaining five crewmen drowned.They were originally interred at a mariner's graveyard off the bank of the Ashley River. The graveyard had been Charleston's mariners' cemetery during the war. The site was mistakenly covered over when Johnson Hagood football stadium was built on it in 1948, the graves of the five Hunley crewman and 22 other Confederate sailors and marines and one child. Historians discovered the remains of the Hunley's first crew in June of 1999, during an archaeological dig beneath The Citadel's football stadium. On March 25, 2000, more than 2,500 people came to Magnolia Cemetery to bury the five crewmembers with full military honors. They were buried alongside the H. L. Hunley's second crew in Magnolia Cemetery.Second Crew: Horace L. Hunley, Robert Brockbank, Joseph Patterson, Thomas W. Park, Charles McHugh, Henry Beard, John Marshall, Charles L. SpragueThe second crew was lost on October 15, 1863 when the Hunley failed to surface during a mock attack, killing all 8 crewmen, including her designer/builder Horace Hunley, was not part of her crew. It is not known why he was at the helm when the submarine sank for the second time. A few days after the sinking, the submarine was raised. On November 8, 1863 the Captain and namesake of the history-making submarine, Horace L. Hunley was buried at Magnolia Cemetery. The very next day, November 9, the other seven crewmembers were also buried at Magnolia, all with full military honors. In the first two cases, the Confederate Navy salvaged the vessel and returned her to service.Third Crew: Lieutenant George E. Dixon (Commander), Frank Collins, Joseph F. Ridgaway, James A. Wicks, Arnold Becker, Corporal C. F. Carlsen, C. Lumpkin, and Augustus MillerThe third crew was lost on the night of February 17, 1864, when the Hunley made her first and only attack against a live target. The vessel was the USS Housatonic as it was stationed at the entrance to Charleston, South Carolina harbor, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) out to sea. In an effort to break the naval blockade of the city, Lieutenant George E. Dixon and a crew of seven volunteers attacked Housatonic, successfully embedding the barbed spar torpedo into her hull. The torpedo was detonated as the submarine backed away, sending Housatonic and five of her crew to the bottom in five minutes. For reasons that are still unproven, after the attack, the H.L. Hunley failed to return to her base. It was over 130 years before the wreckage was found.The wreck was found in April 1995 about 100 yards away from the Housatonic in 27 feet (8 m) of water. It was buried under several feet of silt, which had concealed and protected the vessel for more than a hundred years. The in situ underwater archaeological investigation and excavation culminated with the raising of Hunley on August 8, 2000. On August 8, 2000, at 8:37 a.m., the sub broke the surface for the first time in more than 136 years, greeted by a cheering crowd on shore and in surrounding watercraft.On April 17, 2004 the remains of the final crew were laid to rest at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina alongside the remains of the first two crews.
>Lieutenant George E. Dixon and a crew of seven volunteers attacked Housatonic, successfully embedding the barbed spar torpedo into her hull. The torpedo was detonated as the submarine backed away, sending Housatonic and five of her crew to the bottom in five minutes.
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Who in their right mind believed they could turn Prigozhin against Putin?
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-wagner-prigozhin-putin/card/-careful-around-open-windows-ex-cia-director-warns-wagner-chief-prigozhin-SmVRXoeLl85Q9xzIPK8x
'Careful Around Open Windows,' Ex CIA Director Warns Wagner Chief Prigozhin
In an apparent reference to the manner in which some Russian politicians and businessmen have died in recent years, former CIA Director David Petraeus warned the owner of Russian paramilitary group Wagner to "stay away from open windows."
“He kept his life but lost his Wagner group,” Petraeus said Sunday on CNN of the mercenary group's chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who on Saturday halted his march to Moscow and accepted exile in Belarus, a country whose leader is useful to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He should be very careful around open windows in his new surroundings, in Belarus, where he's going,” Petraeus said.
A number of Russians, including some who have been critical of the war in Ukraine, have fallen to their deaths from rooftops and through high-rise windows. Russian lawmaker Pavel Antov died last year after falling from the roof of a hotel in India. Also last year, Russian oil executive Ravil Maganov died from a fall from a hospital window in Moscow. Maganov was the chairman of Lukoil PJSC, the country's second-largest oil-and-gas company–one of few Russian corporations to openly call for an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
>she looks so pale and fragile that its seems a strong wind might knock her down
This is what you're going with?
>2018, she sparked a media frenzy when she attended the Winter Olympics in South Korea as her country's official representative and was pictured sitting close to Vice President Mike Pence.
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