How the world’s oldest message in a bottle found its way home
The envelope was addressed to a dead man. “George Parker Bidder,” it read. “Care of the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, England.” An e-mail was sent around to the MBA’s small staff soon after the letter arrived this spring. Almost everyone stopped what they were doing to peer at the curious …
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