Relevant to the discussion of the MAINE, is the issue of the LEONARDO
DA VINCI and the other Italian ship that blew up in port – BENEDETTO
BRIN was it? The Italians have always asserted both these ships were
sabotaged, rather than blew up accidentally, and claimed that material
burgled from the safe at the Austro-Hungarian Embassy somewhere –
Switzerland? proved it. Apparently, too the Italians still possess
large quantities of Autro-Hungarian material that has never been
researhed properly or translated. This is one of the intriguing little
mysteries of WWI that would be nice to get resolved someday….

-Brooks