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Melissa Darby

Here are a few links to book reviews and lectures I have given about Drake and his movements on the NW Coast, the Plate of Brass Hoax, the Dare Stone Hoax, and much more:

 Smithsonian review of Thunder Go North, the Hunt for Sir Francis Drake’s Fair & Good Bay:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-francis-drake-really-land-california-180973219/

The Oregon Historical Society Bookstore:

https://www.ohs.org/shop/museum-store/books-and-publications/thunder-go-north.cfm

 The Oregon Historical Society History Pub Lecture:

https://ohs.org/events/thunder-go-north-sir-francis-drake.cfm

 Berkeley, University of California Lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuwJvndXHAk

 Sausalito Yacht Club Lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsxSGAGtd8Y&t=2177s

 

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Gossamer So Sheer 2

In the war of 1914, Germany drafted a secret note proposing an alliance against the United States, offering in return the restitution of what could hardly be called the Mexican Alsace-Lorraine, the states of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah and Nevada. In a moment of abstraction, Dr Albrecht, a member of the German Embassy, left the dispatch case with the draft in a carriage of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway of New York City. The contents were published in the N. Y. World. Mexico remained neutral.)

Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio.

https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-zimmermann-telegram

https://alteritas.net/pastis/gossamer-so-sheer/