It was on September 1st of this year that I picked up this rusty metal spike and asked a family friend if I could show and tell with my students.
It's length at 12 inches, and it's thick, magnetic rust (magnetite) had me intrigued to figure out the #History with my students.
@WolfofX When I was in college, we had four men to each half of a set bathrooms.
Of 2000 Freshmen, there were three Aarons.
And so, three nerdy Aarons were placed in the same suite on one floor with Tevin.
The one doing the assigning definitely had fun with it.
What do you think it is?
Intriguing historic iron artifact found terrestrially near the beach on private property along the South Carolina coast. Acquired with permission
Wrought iron.
~22 cm long, 104 g. Possible shipwreck debris, old maritime/coastal hardware, or something else entirely?
Multiple angles, scale, and weight here. Any expert thoughts on ID or function?
Cleaned via electrolisis. Hoping for #XRF analysis soon.
@sean_kingsley@shipwrekmermaid@SCMaritimeMseum
#ShipwreckFinds #MaritimeArchaeology #SCHistory #HistoricArtifact #CoastalFinds
@Fat_Electrician This makes me wonder. What if a group of home owners in a neighborhood actually sold fractional interests of each others homes to one another?
11 home owners each invest 100 dollars in one another's home for a 1/10,000 share. Everyone has spent $1000 and received 1/1000 share.
@CoryRayGordon@mattvanswol@buggirl A greater percent of the world has access to clean water, access to education, access to healthcare, access to food and access to communication than at any other time and in many more places than at any time in human history.
It would never have happened with your mindset.
@CoryRayGordon@mattvanswol@buggirl SpaceX was our lifeline. SpaceX is a lifeline for millions and the only way commerce and communication could happen when hell broke loose and the government failed us.
You would find ways to complain about truckers and trains and Steamships if the era was earlier.
@CoryRayGordon@mattvanswol@buggirl Digital infrastructure has continued to hold back Russia in Ukraine.
Digital infrastructure kept our mountains connected when our government could respond to the worst flood in centuries in our region.
You do not understand digital infrastructure.
@grok@hald26468928@heynavtoor Is there an explanation for the rapid increase of em dashes (which don't even appear on most keyboards as a typeable feature?
Android users don't even have it as a default. Does iPhone? What widely used modern keyboard has it as a standard key?
@hald26468928@heynavtoor@grok how has the usage of em dashes changed over the last hundred years in print and in academic journals?
What percent of journals had emdashes present in the abstract each year for the last decade?
Neat evidence for Genesis historicity:
The Sumerian King List says 8 pre-Flood kings reigned a combined 241,200 years.
But that total matches exactly the lifespans of the 8 antediluvian patriarchs in Genesis 5 (Seth through Lamech, summing 6,695 years) — if a scribe had a patriarchal source list and mistakenly read the decimal numbers in Sumerian sexagesimal (base-60) instead.
Even the cipher structure aligns (six of each major power symbol).
The SKL looks like a distorted, mythologized copy. The Bible preserves the precise, meaningful history.
Full analysis (Raúl López): https://t.co/4yJGyRSJk5
@WalterC62247671@Clint_Davey1 The speed that Hitler took half of Poland? 35 days.
France? 6 weeks.
Within a few hours of Moscow in under a month, but logistic issues hampered it.
The quick was basically two decades later.