The mystery of Roanoke survives today. There are theories of course, but no answers. I found this article about the mystery on the historicmysteries website: (Thanks to Filly for introducing me to this awesome site!)
From historicmysteries.com:
The Roanoke Colony was the first English settlement in America. It vanished. The mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke Island has baffled society for hundreds of years. A group of settlers disappeared into North America with hardly a trace and no one has seen concrete evidence of their existence in centuries. Many theories have arisen over the years as to the fate of these settlers, but nothing is certain. Today, there is only speculation about the Roanoke Colony mystery.
Establishment of a Colony
After hearing news of a lush, beautiful area in the Americas Queen Elizabeth I, of England, decides to name this new place Virginia. Subsequently, she gives Sir Walter Raleigh permission to establish a colony in the area. He was to finance and plan the expedition to what is now North Carolina. Raleigh has 10 years to complete this mission.
In 1585, an expedition comprised only of around 77 men were sent to start the colony. They were led by Sir Richard Grenville. Shortly after the arrival, the men begin to suspect that local Indians have stolen a silver cup from them. In retaliation, they destroy their village and burn the chief alive. Despite the obvious discourse with the natives, Grenville decides to leave the men there to build the proposed colony. He vows to return in April of 1586.
When April passes and there is no sign of Grenville the men decide to hitch a ride home with Sir Francis Drake. Drake had stopped at the colony on his way back from a successful voyage to the Caribbean. Ironically Grenville arrived shortly thereafter. After finding the settlement empty, he decides to leave 15 men there to protect England’s claim.
John White and the Roanoke Settlement
The second group of settlers arrived at Roanoke Island on July 22, 1587. This group contains 117 people, both men and women. They are led by John White. John White’s daughter would give birth to the first English child born in America on August 18, 1587. The child’s name was Virginia Dare. These people would later become known as the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island.
The settlers built their colony and tried to make peace with the natives. They were successful in befriending the Croatoan tribe, but other tribes were openly hostile toward the colonists. A settler by the name of George Howe was murdered by natives while hunting crab on the beach. After this incident, the settlers became nervous about their new home and convinced John White to return to England and ask for help. John White reluctantly left. He would never see any of these people again.
When John White arrived in England, he was unable to secure passage back to the colony. He was unable to find a Captain that would sail the Atlantic in the dead of winter, so he was forced to wait. Then the opposing threat of the Spanish Armada forced all available ships to be called to war. Eventually, John was able to secure passage on two small boats. Unfortunately, the owners of these boats were greedy men and they tried to capture other ships during their voyage. They were then captured, in turn, and relieved of their cargo. John White was unable to attempt another crossing for three years.
Nothing Left to Return To
John White finally returned to Roanoke Island on August 18, 1590. His granddaughter’s third birthday. To his dismay, there was no sign of his friends and family. The Roanoke colony had been dismantled and deserted. The only clues to the whereabouts of the colonists were carvings in a remaining post and a tree. The carving on the post read “Croatoan” and the carving in the tree was even more cryptic, it simply said “Cro.”
John took these clues to mean that the Roanoke colony had moved to nearby “Croatoan Island.” Before White’s departure, they had agreed that if the settlers were forced to leave, they would carve a Maltese cross into a tree. In the absence of such a carving, John could only assume that they left of their own volition. John was compelled to search for the colonists but was forced to return to England due to inclement weather. He would never set foot on Roanoke Island again.
Theories
There are many theories concerning the Roanoke colony mystery. They could have left due to weather, food shortage or threat of attack by local tribes. One thing is for sure, nothing is certain. Future settlers and explorers would claim to have spotted natives with light hair and eyes or natives that spoke perfect English. These claims may explain where the settlers went. It is highly likely that they integrated into the Croatoan tribe, but there is no concrete evidence of this.
SOURCE: HISTORICMYSTERIES.COM; SHELLY BARCLAY
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interesting I recall hearing about this
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Red State: “Are Democrats finally getting sick of Rep. Nancy Pelosi ruling the roost? A new report is shedding some light on the internal civil war that has broken out within the Democratic Party, and the California congresswoman has found herself at the center of it. And to be clear, it’s completely her fault.
Pelosi made waves over the summer when she led the effort to end President Joe Biden’s re-election effort, ultimately leading to the coronation of Kamala Harris. I don’t think I need to explain how that turned out. Yet, in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s landslide victory, Pelosi is still talking, and some of her colleagues are just about sick of it.
The latest controversy was sparked by Pelosi telling The New York Times that had Biden dropped out sooner, the election may have turned out differently. Specifically, she cited the possibility of having a compressed primary instead of anointing Harris, which is what ultimately occurred.
Is she wrong? Not necessarily, but how do Democrats want to hear what they “should” have done from the person who so royally screwed things up that Donald Trump, the man they compare to Adolf Hitler, got re-elected? Pelosi flew too close to the sun. She believed herself to be above the will of her party’s primary voters and executed a soft coup on the rightful nominee. The result was an abject disaster.
So can you blame other Democrats for saying enough is enough when it comes to her holier-than-thou attitude about what should have occurred? Pelosi is 84 years old and promised to step aside for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Instead, she took on the made-up title of “Speaker Emerita” and still called the shots from the shadows. That she failed so miserably has turned what was formerly fear and respect among the Democratic caucus into resentment.
Her new role should be retirement. What exactly is she sticking around for? Much less still trying to run the caucus? Those are rhetorical questions….”
Tweet: Scoop: House Dems sick of Pelosi
Pelosi won’t go away because her ego won’t let her. She’s sociopathic in her pursuit of power and prestige, and while the press has long lauded her as a historic figure, reality tells a different story. Despite doing everything she could to take down the Republican Party, she ended up being the Speaker who lost the gavel twice. Worse, she helped usher Donald Trump into office twice.
She desperately wants to save her legacy, but pushing Biden out to defeat the bad orange man was likely her last chance at redemption. It’s all downhill from here whether she wants to accept it or not, and if she doesn’t, the civil war in the Democratic Party will only get worse.”
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“DOGE Is Coming…Our database is at the ready with 10 BILLION lines of public spending.”
OpenTheBooks, Nov 16, 2024
It’s been a busy week for our brand-new CEO John Hart! As soon as President-elect Trump announced his plans for a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), John and the team hit the ground running to share the word about the trove of data we have at the ready.
On Wednesday evening’s The Ingraham Angle, John spoke with Laura Ingraham about the prospects of winning major, lasting efficiencies for American taxpayers.
The same evening, DOGE co-head Vivek Ramaswamy got a look at our latest report on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) spending at Health and Human Services.
By highlighting our reporting on X, Vivek put more than 2 MILLION more sets of eyes on our work. Yes, thanks to all of our voices combined, we have the attention of DOGE!
If you haven’t read it yet, the full report is here. Or, click the image above to repost and spread the word even further on X.
MAJOR CUTS BY INDEPENDENCE DAY 2026?
Trump, Ramaswamy and Elon Musk have set some audacious targets: $2 trillion in cuts by July 4, 2026.
“A smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence,” Trump said of the timeline.
John penned a column for the New York Post to weigh in on the work that lies ahead to find such major efficiencies by eliminating waste and streamlining costly regulations.
“Taxpayers are rightly skeptical about commissions and grand promises from Washington to cut spending,” he wrote. But DOGE leadership has more tools on the table than ever before — including Open the Books.
“We’ve blown the whistle on everything from the militarization of the IRS to DEI programs in federal agencies that divert funds from basic health research…Reporting such findings directly to the public will be key to maintaining long-term support for belt-tightening.”
Read the whole oped, including the history of John’s work on spending cuts with Senator Tom Coburn, here.
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Elsewhere in the newspaper, Post reporters Michael Kaplan and James Franey laid out a list of outrageous spending items that deserve to get the boot, with some help from our database…..”
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/doge-is-coming
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Just The News: “The Defense Department on Friday failed to pass the seventh consecutive audit of its finances, but said it is making progress in having a clean audit by 2028.
The Pentagon has never successfully passed the audit of its $824 billion budget since it was required in 2018, but the Marine Corps passed its own audit in February. A total of 1,700 auditors worked on the 2024 audit, which cost about $178 million.
A breakdown of the audit found that 15 of the 28 standalone financial audits received a failing grade, while nine of them passed. One received a “qualified” opinion, while the other three remain pending. The department as a whole received an “disclaimer of opinion,” which means it did not provide enough financial information to form an opinion.
“Despite the disclaimer of opinion, which was expected, the Department has turned a corner in its understanding of the depth and breadth of its challenges,” Pentagon Comptroller Michael McCord said in a statement. “Momentum is on our side, and throughout the Department there is strong commitment—and belief in our ability—to achieve an unmodified audit opinion.
“The path forward is clear,” he continued. “Significant work remains and challenges lie ahead, but our annual audit continues to be a catalyst for Department-wide financial management reform, resulting in greater financial integrity, transparency, and better-supported warfighters.”
McCord also noted that significant progress was made in five crucial areas, including addressing material weaknesses, improvements in system controls, “moving the needle” on physical assets, leadership engagement and use of data analytics, according to Stars and Stripes.
“This means that the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force and [the Defense Information Systems Agency] have gotten their house in order on all their funding, or cash, as some people might think of it,” McCord said. “For context, the department has improved from less than 7% to over 82% of its funding being free of material weaknesses since I returned to this job (in June 2021).”
The comptroller added that he believes the 2028 goal of passing the audit is still achievable, but that the department would need to improve faster and stronger.
The Defense Department is the only Cabinet-level department to have consistently failed its annual audit.”
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“Entire Entrenched Government Bureaucracy To Be Dismantled By Indian Guy And Autistic African American Obsessed With Rockets”
Politics · Nov 15, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Panicked sources within the nation’s capital expressed fear that the entire governmental bureaucracy that had been methodically built up over the last century was about to be dismantled by an Indian guy and an autistic African American obsessed with rockets.
The vast federal mechanisms put in place to make even the simplest and most straightforward tasks take years to accomplish and cost billions of taxpayer dollars now faced elimination at the hands of what federal officials referred to as “two total outsiders with weird names.”
“Who do these guys think they are?” one high-ranking official asked under the condition of anonymity. “We’ve been working hard to make government as bloated and inefficient as possible for decades, and this rocket guy and Indian are going to ruin everything.”
When reached for comment, the autistic African American confirmed the reports. “I like rockets,” he said.
According to government insiders, every three-letter agency in the country had already given its employees orders to barricade themselves in their offices and not give in despite having little hope of resisting the coming purge for any length of time.
“You can bet we’re going to put up a fight,” the anonymous government official continued. “Granted, it will most likely be a very poorly organized and inefficient fight, using hundreds of employees to accomplish very little, but still.”
At publishing time, sources confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security was being replaced by one hot chick with a shotgun.
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“Conservative Husbands Sacrificially Volunteer To Have Twice The Sex To Make Up For Lib Sex Strike”
Worldviews · Nov 15, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
U.S. — In response to an alarming new trend of women vowing to abstain from sex because Donald Trump was re-elected president, conservative husbands across the country have chosen to fall on their swords and have twice as much sex to save America’s birth rate from further decline.
“I will do what I must,” said Ben Hill, a husband and father from North Dakota. “I’m just going to have to bite the bullet and make sweet love to my wife even more to make up for all the liberals not having sex.”
The idea of having more intercourse to make up for all the people not having any was reportedly originated by Jeff Narvin a man who, coincidentally, was not getting any.
According to sources, Narvin first broached the subject by appealing to his wife’s sense of patriotism. “We have to do it, honey,” he said. “We have no other option. It’s for America.”
Narvin’s wife, Lizzie, reportedly responded by reminding Jeff that she loved him but wasn’t about to “put out” just because other people weren’t. However, her argument was eventually decimated by Jeff’s facts and logic.
“Not everyone can carry this burden,” Narvin said. “Few men receive this calling, but those who do must answer it. We will do what we must.”
At publishing time, the movement was ruled an abject failure after a sudden pandemic of headaches had apparently spread across the conservative female population.
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“RFK Jr. Jumped In Dark Alley By Count Chocula, Chester Cheetah, Kool-Aid Man”
Politics · Nov 15, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
WASHINTON, D.C. — Presumptive cabinet member and amateur bodybuilder Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was reportedly attacked late last night by a gang of assailants matching the description of Count Chocula, Chester Cheetah, and the Kool-Aid Man.
Police arrested the beloved food mascots in connection with the attack that left RFK Jr. with a black eye, split lip, and orange Cheeto dust all over his face and torso.
“They came out of nowhere,” Kennedy told police. “I was just walking along when suddenly someone shouted ‘Oh yeah!’ as he jumped out of the shadows. The next thing I knew, these three goons were pounding on me. Thankfully, I managed to fight them off and run away. I think one of them was dressed like Dracula but he smelled vaguely like chocolate.”
A police spokesman said authorities believed the attack was retaliation for Kennedy’s hardline stance against processed foods. Health advocates have reported similar attacks across the country on other public figures and warned that anyone promoting a healthy diet may be a target.
The cartoon characters remained defiant when appearing in court. “Don’t you know I’m part of a complete breakfast?” Count Chocula shouted at his arraignment. “We’re not going to just stand here and watch America get healthy. Kennedy can take his kale and shove it.”
At publishing time, authorities had also arrested the Keebler elves after finding them lying in wait for Kennedy in his guest suite at Mar-a-Lago.
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OUR GUY posted a video early this morning:
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Just The News: “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that he believes the ongoing war with Russia will end “faster” when President-elect Donald Trump gets into office. During a radio interview with a Ukrainian public broadcaster, which aired on Saturday, Zelensky said that the war “will end faster with the policy of this team that will now lead the White House,” referring to the incoming Trump administration.
“This is their approach, their promise to their society, and it is also very important to them,” he added. He acknowledged a difficult situation on the battlefield, in which Russia has been pressing its advantages in manpower and weaponry, according to CNN. He added that for Ukraine’s part, “We must do everything to ensure that the war ends next year through diplomatic means.”
In July of this year, Trump said he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day despite Russia’s United Nations ambassador saying otherwise. Zelensky was asked if Trump had demanded that Ukraine participate in negotiations with Russia, to which he replied: “We are an independent country … the rhetoric of ‘sit and listen’ does not work with us,” according to the New York Post.
Following Trump’s win last week, he had a call with Zelensky that was described as a “very good call.”
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