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Beeswax Ship
An archaeological team is investigating the wreck of a Spanish galleon -- a transport ship -- that went down with as many as 400 people aboard off the coast at Manzanita about 1690. The cargo from that vessel has been washing up on the Oregon coast for more than a century. Now the search is on for the remains of the ship itself.
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Electric Drag Racing
Watch as John Wayland's electric car, the White Zombie leaves high powered gas cars in the dust as Portland makes a home for the National Electric Drag Racing Association. John claims that his car is the world's fastest accelerating street legal electric car. See this 1972 Datsun time and time again take advantage of the electric motor's full torque in the first instant and continue to break world records.
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Native Bumblebees
Scott Black of the Xerces Society explains some of the complicated issues surrounding Oregon's native bees. The introduced European honey bee has been in the news a lot recently. The effects of Colony Collapse Disorder are devastating European honey bee populations, (one of agricultures main pollinators). But habitat destruction and pesticides have taken their toll on Oregon's native bees. We will see what is being done to restore the balance.
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