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[big content guy @bigcontentguy]

i’ve said it before but it’s like watching drew brees run the 2 minute drill. not a wasted second and every word with purpose. legend

[Michael Rainey @mikerainey82]

Been on the road 12 of last 14 days. Just drove 20 hours home, walked into the house with the a/c blasting and windows wide open.

[Tom Ruby @bgcts]

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion.

Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales.

We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary.

So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it.

Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me.

So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter.

It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable.

This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive.

This is Cultural Debris.

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cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

[River Oaks Problems @RiverOaksPrblms]

My man is still looking for that Pujols ball

[Kayla Shoemaker B2B WS CHAMP 💙 @_kaylashoemaker]

hidden gen found in my dads garage...from '97

[Laocoon of Troy @LaocoonofTroy]

"San Luis Obispo," by American artist and Disney animator, Eyvind Earle, 1990.

[jxke. 🧸🎰🃏 @cantguardjake]

Listening to my little league coach yell at us due to the stress over his impending divorce while I think about how i’m gonna tell him I left my cleats at home

[Céad Míle Fáilte @ColeyMick]

Being Tiger’s personal DUI lawyer

[Chiacchierata Calcistica @CCalcistica]

Just discovered the existence of the 1945 Coppa della Città di Genova.

I'd have thought the Kriegsmarine had other priorities in the spring of '45.

[Tanning Salon Don @TheSalonDon]

If this night didn’t happen Tiger Woods wins 30 majors and is worth $10b

[Liam Fennessy @LiamFennessy_]

My father-in-law is a Fenway Aramark chef. He is insanely gifted. We were looking at ballpark food together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to do this in Boston. I will never forget his answer…

‘We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.’

[Camarlengo @charlyrrex2]

Nunca me voy a cansar de decirlo: la guerra del pacífico es el mayor espectáculo que hizo la humanidad

[Old Row Sports @OldRowSports]

Are we not concerned that biff could also be having an affair?

[Currys @currys]

our installation expert deciding which socket to plug it into

[Wynner 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇪🇺 @EuroWynner]

Chileans figured out how to do this 20 years ago without AI

[Reid Farmer (TR_Farmer_archaeology) @farmer_tr]

One of my favorite anecdotes is that some Indians in Arkansas told DeSoto they had heard from tribes to the west that there was another group of Europeans riding horses traveling there
DeSoto refused to believe them but it was actually the Coronado expedition

[matt mbappé @FulIMeasures]

Thom Brennaman everytime he steps into the booth

[W.E.B. DaBoi @Tyre_94]

Chicago Pope uses hometown mob tactics to convert believers, circa 2025.