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 The broken anchor is pretty sketch. Sounds like the colony might have been wiped out and Smith not wanting to return to England and say "my bad they all died" was able to save face by saying "We have proof they are safe and moved location.  Near the end of the 16th century, a man by the name of John White embarked on a transatlantic voyage. His destination was the island of Roanoke along the southeastern coast of North America. On this island, White had established an English colony some three years before and he was now returning to resume his position as Governor. After a long and difficult journey, White finally reached the site of the colony only to find the more than one hundred men, women, and children had left behind had disappeared. Before White had a chance to conduct a more extensive search, the ship returned to England and in its wake, it left a mystery.  Raleigh was soon thereafter knighted by Queen Elizabeth I and the new land was to be named Virginia in ho...

Let’s get one thing straight here. I like Windows, okay I mean, I’m a nice guy. Like if I saw a Chrome book shivering in the cold as it sat abandoned on a best buy demo rack, I’d feel bad for it. But given that there are Windows laptops and MacBook’s that can do everything a Chrome book can do and more I just haven’t seen any reason why. Yep, that is a complete Windows 10 installation running inside Chrome OS. Absolutely perfect. I like Chrome books now. They’re great. And so is our sponsor. This is the Acer Spin 713. It’s a Chrome book for big kids.  But really the big boy pants that it wears to the party is that it runs Chrome Enterprise, a suite of business focused extra features like advanced security protections and device management. That’s because this unnatural union is actually a result of a partnership between Google and Parallels, the company that’s best known for running operating systems inside other ones using virtual machines.  And what better way than a sweet, ...