The site To Slip One's Mind usually has posts about murders, but they featured the Fawn Hoof Mummy this week. We don't know if there's any evidence that she was murdered, because the mummy was pretty much destroyed in the name of science. I had to find out more.
In 1811, workers were mining saltpeter from Short Cave, a part of the Mammoth Cave system. They struck an anomaly that turned out to be a four-foot-square crypt containing a corpse folded into a fetal position. It was that of a woman with short-cropped hair between 5' 10" and six feet tall. She was wrapped in a decorated deerskin and was accompanied by burial goods, including a necklace made of deer hooves, which gave her the name Fawn Hoof. The mummy was moved to Mammoth Cave, where she was on display for several years. Nahum Ward purchased the mummy in 1815 and took it on an exhibition tour. The American Antiquarian Society acquired the mummy for 59 years, during which time she was displayed at the 1876 World's Fair in Philadelphia and the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. Fawn Hoof then went to the Smithsonian Institution, where she was displayed until 1900. But then, the institution decided to remove the mummy's flesh and separate her bones, removing most of what was notable about Fawn Hoof. For more than 100 years, her remains have neither been displayed nor studied, and are far from her designated resting place. Read the story of the Fawn Hoof Mummy and other mummies taken from Mammoth Cave at Great American Hikes. -via Strange Company
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Unrelated to SnowyDeath 2010, I'd like to submit Neatonauts for the nickname. It has a better ring to it, imho.
Being a teacher I've been off the whole week, so getting to work was never a worry for me. While the shoveling has gotten pretty old, it's actually been kind of nice to be able to stay home and catch up on some things around the house. And we've finally met some of our neighbors, since we just moved into our house 5 months ago.
The snow has taken down 2 metal porch awnings so far in this block. 2 more are set to go any time.
My job keeps calling me to come in and clean snow off cars at the auto auction. I'm not dumb, I really don't want to be covered in snow all day and then come home with pneumonia. It's not like it's a full time job or anything.
I'm sick of snow, know anywhere warm I can move to?
I'm actually looking forward to going to work tomorrow, it'll be relaxing.
I am not sure why this one gets all the media attention. Maybe because it hit DC as well when that it usually the southern limit of the big storms.
Anyway, good to see all the other Baltimoroneatonauts on her, Hey!
Did I say a foot of snow? In Texas?
Yes, here in Grand Prairie, TX (DFW) there is about 10 inches of snow on the ground and it's not supposed to stop falling (according to the clueless weathermen) for another five hours. I think it's wonderful and reminds me of my childhood winters, but everyone else down here is going nuts. And it's the great stuff that sticks together well for snowmen, too!
That's pretty sad.
I live in Oswego County, it you look at that satellite view, gander that lake fully in the frame, about center on the left, that's Lake Ontario, we live at the eastern (right) end of it. Oh, I should mention we get 180 inches a year. A. Year. 180. This is due to the lake effect snow machine, look that up if you don't know, but it can easily produce snow into the feet measured range in no time, a day, or less.
Everyone whining about snow don't know jack until you live in this area where your wimpy laughably nothing "blizzard" wouldn't even dent the daily grind. Heck, 6" wouldn't close school in these parts, neither would 12", you'll always find food on the store shelves, what you got is just another day up here.
Oh, and just north of me is Tug Hill, the snowiest place east of the Rockies, they get as much as 400" a year, and no, nobody panics, nobody freaks out, school, business, life goes on. Honestly all of us up here are laughing at the central east coast for being a bunch of pansies. Buck up people, you don't even know what snow is.