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2 unusual facts about Edmund B. Delabarre


Edmund B. Delabarre

Delabarre claimed that the stone bears carvings of the Coat of arms of Portugal, the name of Miguel Corte-Real, and the date 1511.

He became famous, particularly in Portugal, because of his interpretation of the inscriptions present on the surface of Dighton Rock, a boulder on the shore of the Taunton River, south-eastern Massachusetts, attributing the carvings to Miguel Corte-Real, a Portuguese navigator who left Lisbon in May 1502 on an exploration trip to the western Atlantic, never to return.


Edmund B. Fitzgerald

Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald (1926 - August 28, 2013) was a businessman and was a key figure in bringing baseball back to Milwaukee in the form of the Milwaukee Brewers.


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