What I learned today!

[_MeDotOrg]

Personally, this is my favorite Tombstone inscription:

[_Res Ipsa]

I learned that the Salem witch trials were a much bigger CF than I’d ever imagined.

Link?

My mother had always told me and my siblings that we have a relative that was burned at the stake in Salem. My sister and I were just talking about it, and she is going to go through my grandmothers genealogy records to see if we can find out her name.

Interesting stuff.

So, in fact, no one was burned at the stake during the Salem Witch trials. Twenty were executed, nineteen by hanging and one man by pressing. (Guy lies down. Boards are placed lengthwise on his body. Then stones stacked on the boards until he dies. His last words: “more weight.”

This was 11 hours of podcast called “Unobscured”. It’s by the guy who does the Lore podcast and TV show. https://historyunobscured.com I really enjoyed it.

[_Markk]

So, in fact, no one was burned at the stake during the Salem Witch trials. Twenty were executed, nineteen by hanging and one man by pressing. (Guy lies down. Boards are placed lengthwise on his body. Then stones stacked on the boards until he dies. His last words: “more weight.”

This was 11 hours of podcast called “Unobscured”. It’s by the guy who does the Lore podcast and TV show. https://historyunobscured.com I really enjoyed it.

I have been looking at wiki and I noticed many were hanged. I am on ancestry.com looking for any of my relatives that died in 1692 but I come from so many large polygamous families it is over whelming.

Check this out... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... witchcraft just starting to read some of the stories.

Thanks for the link.

[_Res Ipsa]

You’re welcome. Please let me know what you find in your ancestor search.

[_Dr. Shades]

I learned that the sand on Waikiki was imported from Australia.

[_Markk]

I learned that the sand on Waikiki was imported from Australia.

LOL...Really?

I live next to a little hamlet called Oak Glen (So Ca), and it is famous for it's apples and apple pie.

I grew up hanging out there and I often eat dinner up there with my wife, really a nice place. But anyways I bought a box of apples a few years back and when I got home I noticed they were from Washington State. Same let down.

https://www.oakglen.net/

[_Markk]

I learned that during WW2, partly because drinking water for the troops was so bitter, being mixed with large amounts of chlorine and alum, the British Empire did everything they could to buy all the Tea in the world. During the height of the war they had enough tea to make 15 trillion cups.

I guess I also learned alum can purify water.

[_Res Ipsa]

I learned about hockey enforcer John Scott and his improbable appearance in the All Star Game. Good story. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/radiolab-punchline

[_MeDotOrg]

I learned that the sand on Waikiki was imported from Australia.

While sand at Waikiki was imported from China and Manhattan Beach (California), there is no record of it coming from Australia.

My Australia story: During the California Gold Rush, a lot of men were getting out of prison in Australia. They heard about the Gold Rush and set up shop in San Francisco. By the 1850's, part of the city was called Sydney Town, and was run by a gang of street toughs called the Sydney Ducks. The Ducks would wait until the wind was blowing in from the ocean and set fire to the city, and while everyone was fighting the fire they would rob the other side of town. They were eventually kicked out of town by a vigilante group in the 1850's.

[_Res Ipsa]

I learned about the prototype drug tunnel along the US-Mexico southern border. It went between a home in Agua Prieta and a warehouse in Douglas, AZ. It was financed by “El Chapo” and used to smuggle cocaine. To reach the tunnel at the Mexico end, you turned what looked like an outdoor water spigot on. Hydraulics lifted a concrete slab in the basement, on which sat a pool table, revealing a staircase down to the tunnel. Sounds like a Bond film.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-tunnel/