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Mysterious stone pillars emerge from northern New Mexico forest
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| 23 May 2017
| Chris McKee
Posted on 05/31/2017 10:27:24 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria
I can offer a simple explanation based on my family's cemetery plot. My great grandfather homesteaded a farm in Minnesota a century and a half ago. He donated a plot on that farm to his local church for a cemetery, and erected a "stone pillar" on it in the middle of an area reserved for family members (including my parents). There are no large markers for individuals , who have small engraved markers around the centerpiece.
The "stone pillar" of the article could be a similar marker. It is likely illegal to remove such items, even from abandoned cemeteries, so the family invented the story that the marker was removed from their own property in order to protect the thief.
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posted on
06/01/2017 4:07:58 AM PDT
by
norwaypinesavage
(The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
To: Pelham
I agree, looks rather modern to me.
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posted on
06/01/2017 4:21:37 AM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
To: Theoria
An offering to the great Mayan God, Covfefe.
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posted on
06/01/2017 4:36:32 AM PDT
by
Eccl 10:2
(Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
To: Theoria
It contains directions on how to start a weed whacker.
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posted on
06/01/2017 4:40:31 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Theoria
They look 20th century to me.
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posted on
06/01/2017 4:53:32 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: AlmaKing
There’s a church in Santa Fe that was built in 1607.
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posted on
06/01/2017 5:05:19 AM PDT
by
Campion
(Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
To: Theoria
Something is not right with those shadows.
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posted on
06/01/2017 5:15:13 AM PDT
by
Thidwick
(If a moose can figure it out, why can't a liberal?)
To: Theoria
Send in Special Agent Dale Cooper.
To: Theoria
Yea but I didn’t see a hooked X. That said very interesting OP.
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
To: Eccl 10:2
If I squint, I can see a reference to Kek, Peace be upon him.
To: Theoria
Looks awfully clean to be extremely old.
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posted on
06/01/2017 5:39:59 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
To: Vendome
Ouch...lot of guys like that out there...almost like a industry.
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posted on
06/01/2017 6:24:09 AM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Theoria
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posted on
06/01/2017 6:42:09 AM PDT
by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: Theoria
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posted on
06/01/2017 6:42:17 AM PDT
by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: faucetman
Sorry, but it actually was worth repeating.
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posted on
06/01/2017 6:43:07 AM PDT
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faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: AlmaKing
I’m an untrained amateur genealogist, but I can assure people that “marble” gravestones are not real common because they literally MELT. They seem to dissolve from the elements. The ones pictured in the cemetery don’t appear to be marble. Hard to say as lighting, camera settings, etc. affect how a photo “appears”.
They appear to be in too good condition to be that old.
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posted on
06/01/2017 6:53:46 AM PDT
by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: going hot
LOL....Mystery solved!
It says....
Shave and a haircut....two bits!
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posted on
06/01/2017 6:57:58 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: central_va
It contains directions on how to start a weed whacker.Nah, there's no cuss words.
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posted on
06/01/2017 7:04:08 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
To: 21twelve
I worked for a company that was trying to come up with some signage, symbols, monuments, etc. to place at a nuclear waste burial site. Something that 500,000 years from now would still mean KEEP OUT.Did your company come up with anything better than a skull and crossbones? Or the circle with the diagonal slash through it?
I recall the issue arising years ago when the anti-nuclear crowd was trying to argue that waste depositories needed to be designed to failproof/foolproof standards guaranteed for hundreds of thousands of years. Twelve thousand years ago our ancestors were in caves, trying to stay alive in the shadow of continental ice sheets. I always figured people 500,000 years from now would probably be able to take care of themselves.
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posted on
06/01/2017 7:12:03 AM PDT
by
sphinx
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