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Archaeologists puzzle over object buried in Civil War cemetery
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Posted on 01/29/2006 11:01:42 AM PST by lunarbicep
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posted on
01/29/2006 11:42:50 AM PST
by
indcons
To: martin_fierro
To: lunarbicep
Are there no backhoes in Georgia? Dig the thing up and look at it. Then you'll know what the heck it is. If they can't find an operator, I'll be glad to come down and do it for $1000/day, plus travel and expenses. Sheesh!
Or, they could hire a couple of illegal immigrants, supply them with shovels and they'd have the hole dug by lunchtime.
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posted on
01/29/2006 11:48:33 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: lunarbicep
It's that obelisk from 2001 Space Odyssey?
To: lunarbicep
It the lost Confederate gold!
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posted on
01/29/2006 11:49:47 AM PST
by
Alouette
(Pray for Israel: Psalms of the Day: 140-150)
To: lunarbicep
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posted on
01/29/2006 11:58:41 AM PST
by
krb
(ad hominem arguments are for stupid people)
To: MineralMan
Are there no backhoes in Georgia?
They are working in a cemetery. Legally, you have to get permission from living family member and court order to dig up a grave, or around the grave of someone.
To: jazusamo
Curses! Those meddling archaeologists have found my vault!
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posted on
01/29/2006 12:12:13 PM PST
by
GaltMeister
(“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
To: Alouette
It the lost Confederate gold!That was going to be my first guess as well.
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posted on
01/29/2006 12:16:15 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: atomicpossum
Cue the locust-like aliens hopping around on LSD!!!
LOL.
If they find a plaque on the thing that says,
ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, NEVER, EVER OPEN THIS!!!!
Wanna take bets on how long before they open the darn thing?
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posted on
01/29/2006 12:18:04 PM PST
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX)
To: lunarbicep
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posted on
01/29/2006 12:18:23 PM PST
by
SteveH
(First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
To: battlecry
It's the lockbox.LOL! Now, THAT'S funny.
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posted on
01/29/2006 12:29:13 PM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: atomicpossum
Re:
Quatermass and the Pit (aka Five Million Years to Earth
I love it when all the Marians were grasshoppers! Yep, they don't make great Brit sci-fi films like that anymore!
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posted on
01/29/2006 12:32:23 PM PST
by
Bender2
(Stop doodling around... Read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel.)
To: lunarbicep
"There definitely is something manmade there, something big and metal," said Sheldon Skaggs, a member of the archaeologist team. A scientist using the intelligent design theory?
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posted on
01/29/2006 12:37:42 PM PST
by
RJL
Comment #35 Removed by Moderator
To: lunarbicep; Peanut Gallery; w_over_w; SAMWolf; snippy_about_it
pING?
To: Bender2
I remember that one! LOL!
To: wtp7
It is probably a missing cannon. That's my guess, too.
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posted on
01/29/2006 12:52:29 PM PST
by
Riley
("What color is the boathouse at Hereford?")
To: SampleMan
I'm only guessing, but I think once they dig it up, they will find out that it is the career of the Dixie Chicks. Nah... they said it was "big." ;-)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Have they ever found the twin sisters used at San Jacinto?No. Several times found and several times lost. They remain lost.
Following Texas entry into the Union, they were transferred to the federal arsenal in Baton Rouge.
Governor Houston later made a formal request to the Secretary of War for the return of The Twins to Texas. Before that could happen, Louisiana and Texas seceded. The Twins became the possessions of the Confederate State of Louisiana.
We still wanted The Twins returned. One was located at a Louisiana foundry where it was to be smelted down. The other had been sold to a private citizen. The Louisiana legislature rescued The Twins, restored them to health, mounted them on new carriages and returned them to Texas on 20 April 1861.
The Twins were used at first Battle of Galveston where they disappeared from records until late in 1863 when they were reported to be in the Austin arsenal. In early 1864 they were reportedly on their way to the Rio Grande to be used against federal forces there. No record they ever arrived.
Last plausible but unproven sighting was on Houston's Market Square in mid 1865. The sighting included a description of the plaques placed on them by Louisiana back in 1861.
Only replicas, such as the pair on display at the Texas Military Forces Museum on Camp Mabry in Austin, honor the memory and service of the Twin Sisters
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posted on
01/29/2006 12:59:07 PM PST
by
Racehorse
(Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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