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KidNuz: News for Kids

11.08.2023

KidNuz: News for Kids

Starglow Media

Kids & Family, News, Education

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The Holy Grail of Shipwrecks, Insta Whistleblower, Tiger Rumblings, Kevin Bacon Loves Buns, Swift Reporter and Fiona, Lonely No More!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim.

0:03.0

Today is Wednesday, November 8th, 2023.

0:05.0

And we begin with a new lease on life

0:08.0

for Britain's loneliness sheep.

0:10.0

Since 2021, Fionna has been stuck at the base of an 820 foot cliff, with steep rock on one side and water on the other.

0:18.8

Her plight captivated much of Scotland, with all potential rescue plans considered too risky.

0:25.0

While she waited, she ate a lot and plumped up so much that plucking her from her

0:30.6

predicament became even more problematic.

0:33.0

But last weekend, two years into her isolation,

0:36.5

CBS News reports that five farmers, one on top of the cliff

0:40.4

and four who inch their way down,

0:42.4

hoisted her to safety with a

0:44.1

pulley. One slip of foot they posted on Facebook and they would have been

0:48.3

fools with good intentions. Fiona received a clean bill of health and a long overdue shearing before rejoining some sheep friends on a nearby farm.

0:58.0

The wool from her haircut is now expected to be spun into an item, maybe a sweater, and auctioned for charity.

1:05.0

It's called The Holy Grail of Shipwrecks and reportedly holds sunken loot to the tune of 20 billion dollars.

1:15.4

According to historians, the Spanish galleon San Jose tried but failed to outrun a fleet of British

1:22.1

warships off Columbia on June 8th, 1708,

1:26.0

when it went down with a treasure trove of gold, silver, and emeralds.

1:30.0

That bounty now sits far below the surface of the Caribbean Sea, a few miles from the port of Carta Hania on the edge of the continental shelf.

1:39.0

A U.S. company claims it found the wreck back in 1981 and made an arrangement with the Colombian

1:44.6

government to split the booty once recovered. Columbia disputes that and now

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