The Note Stack: 5.26.26

Housekeeping

Thank you all so much! We are up to 1.28K downloads on the podcast so thanks to each and every one of you! Also, if you want to give us a little boost, we would love a review, rating, FB Share, restack, etc. Anything to help us get to the top of that algorithm!

Also, June is WORLD CUP MONTH! My son Ethan is going to be helping me host the next three episodes in June and we are going to talk all about soccer history. Don’t let that scare you off, I promise they will still be chock full of interesting history!!

News Roundup

Revolutionary War Soldiers Reburied

In 2019 construction in the Lake George Village of New York uncovered remains of an unmarked burial plot. Initially the plot was thought to be from the French/Indian War, but discovery of a button at the site determined that the site was from the Revolutionary War Era. In fact, scientists think it is associated with a hospital that was close to the site that treated victims of smallpox and other diseases. After painstaking sifting and analysis, scientists think the remains represented at least 44 individuals, two of which were children. On May 20th, those remains were transported from the New York State Museum to the Lake George Battlefield State Park where a newly dedicated memorial called the “Repose of the Fallen” will serve as their final burial ground.

The two original articles I found were here and here.

Dingo burial in Australia

The remains of a dingo buried 916-963 years ago were studied in Australia. The dingo was male and showed evidence of injuries caused by being kicked by a kangaroo. The dingo had not only lived with and was taken care of by humans, but the burial site had evidence of ritual “feeding” for the next 500 years. The dingo was important enough to this group of people that the tradition of honoring it lasted another half century.

Articles here and here. Also an article about dingo domestication here.

Tombstone found in New Orleans

A New Orleans couple clearing brush in their backyard made an astonishing discovery: a nearly 2,000-year-old Roman tombstone inscribed in Latin. Experts eventually identified it as the grave marker of Sextus Congenius Verus, a Roman sailor from the second century C.E. who had served in the imperial fleet. Researchers traced the stone to a museum in Civitavecchia, Italy, where it had apparently disappeared during the chaos of World War II bombings. The mystery deepened when the FBI’s Art Crime Team became involved, helping investigate how the artifact crossed the Atlantic and arranging for its repatriation. The most likely explanation came from the family of a former homeowner, who believed a relative stationed in Italy during WWII had unknowingly brought the tombstone home as a souvenir, where it later sat forgotten in a New Orleans garden for decades. Original article is here.

And in weird news-

More records from the UAP files were released including this transcript from the Gemini 7 spaceflight where the the astronauts saw something unexplained in space. Hear the audio here.

Listener Comments

No listener comments that needed a deep dive this week, but I did post a note that is worth some thought, and we discussed the responses and our takes on the question-

“Today is Star Wars Day. If people find evidence of that 2,000 years in the future, what will they assume? Was Star Wars a religion? (LOL, it is for some people). Was Darth Vader a god? They will have lost so much of the context for what it is and why it exists.

And what ancient holidays do we have completely wrong because we are missing the context?”

Featured Substacks

Tina’s Pick: Snakes and Stories

And, as promised, a pic of Titan

Chris’ Pick: Jason Ives

Watching/Reading List

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Chris is watching:

Micheal (the movie)

Diary of a CEO (YouTube)

Tina is reading:

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James Hansen

On Assignment: Memoir of a National Geographic Filmmaker by James R. Larison

Dead Man’s Hand by James J. Butcher