Well I found this. Turns out they found a German U-Boat and other wreckage off the coast of North Carolina http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/nazi-u-boat-north-carolina_n_6026236.html?utm_hp_ref=science

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Ever one to keep up with the Joneses, after the success of #AskACurator Day, the Society of American Archivists is sponsoring an #AskAnArchivist Twitter party which will be on Thursday October 30th. I plan to participate, but as always you can ask me questions here and not Twitter any time you like.

I wrote about this yesterday, and I'll copy paste a bit of it:

The British Library together with the Qatar Foundation have banded together to digitise and make freely available on the internet all the India Office Records available regarding the Arab/Persian Gulf (i.e. the Trucial States, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia). They are digitising, at the highest quality, just about everything from the early-mid 19th century to 1951. This is a ten year project which has reached the end of its first quarter, and tomorrow (Wednesday) the online library will go live at the Qatar National Library website.

To explain what the India Office Records are: The British Raj had a separate governmental structure from the one in London. It was subservient to the London government, but had a general and wide-spanning authority. That is to say, it was decentralised to the extent that they had their own archives separate from the British archives (this makes sense, 150 years ago it was unreasonable to archive government documents relevant to India in London). So in the India Office Records are all the archival materials to do with the British empire in India.

Now phase one is ended, and over 500,000 pages from the library records, including video, audio, photographs and maps will be released tomorrow.

Here's the Qatar Digital Library.

I really believe this will change the face of Gulf studies as we know it. The India Office archival material is one of the most important towards Gulf history due to its sheer comprehensiveness (though one must of course always be aware of the imperial background all these papers come from). Previously if you wanted to research it, you had to be physically in the UK. Simply by allowing anyone, anywhere, to peruse the archive advances the potential for new scholarship.

On another note, at least in Bahrain, there is a lot of misinformation, often produced or sponsored by the Government, regarding are own history. This can potentially go a long way towards countering the spread of that misinformation.

There's new evidence to support pre-Columbian Polynesian contact with South America, specifically through the Rapanui of Easter Island:

Genome-wide Ancestry Patterns in Rapanui Suggest Pre-European Admixture with Native Americans