Archaeologists suggest rock-cut cave was home of exiled Anglo-Saxon King

Woodstock???

Damn auto spell

“Woodstove”

(Wouldn’t even let me spell “auto spell” without a space)

Thanks Albion Wilde.

The past couple weeks' worth of GGG posts, because this is also the Digest list ping. We're in the time of the year when the bulk of the interesting findings tend to get published, and there's quite a backlog while I've been busy with other things.

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Tomb of Olympias, Alexander The Great’s Mother, Found! [07/13/2021]
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The Genome of a Human From an Unknown Population Has Been Recovered From Cave Dirt [07/13/2021]
Scientists Discover The First Known Algae Species With Three Distinct Sexes [07/13/2021]
NASA Mission Uncovers Hidden Meltwater Lakes Under Antarctica's Ice [07/12/2021]
Stonehenge - the rock venue! Architect's concept that the famous stones were simply the base for a vast Neolithic temple is brought to life by mesmerising models [07/02/2021]
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Clues to The Collapse of a Maya Civilization Found in Ancient Human Feces [07/08/2021]
New Clues Suggest People Reached The Americas Around 30,000 Years Ago [07/09/2021]
The Younger Dryas Impact Debate - Is It Settled Yet? [07/01/2021]
Frederick Douglass Versus the 1619 Project: Critical Race Theory's big lie about American history. [07/16/2021]
The Culpeper Minutemen Flag: The History of the Banner Flown by a Militia of Patriots [07/12/2021]
Lewis & Clark-Sacagawea Latest Statue Toppled in Charlottesville [07/12/2021]

Could be, although Shakespeare merely created the character from an earlier myth; OTOH, Bill Lear just died of old age I think.

It's based on a novel by a man named Lear.

in 2007 we drove, sort of by accident, to Columbus, Kentucky.
Just east of town about 2 miles, almost completely hidden by trees and overgrowth was an old, small building with “Daboes” still barely readable on the front.

I asked some of the locals what is was and they responded that it was “where the coloreds used to gather and such”.

History is sometimes hidden in plain sight.

I did a lot of summer fexerup contracting when I was in high school. Since I was good at most hands on stuff, I always seemed to be working on 200+ year old farm houses. Typically, the barns were gone, and the land was gone, and they were surrounded by a 1950s/1960s “house farm”. First thing I would do is sit there and think about where the barn used to be, the smoke house, the dump, the well, the root cellar — things that every farmhouse had. Most of these would be gone without a trace, but I could usually find the well and the root cellar. Often the openings were covered by a few timbers and a foot of dirt. Needless to say, the homeowners were grateful. Some of the wells and root cellars were in the basements of the houses.

I live in a pre-1789 log house that was once home to the resident blacksmith on the trail west, in Maryland.

The logs were covered with clapboard siding at some point and a stick frame addition added an inside kitchen and two room upstairs.

From the outside, the only giveaway is the log smokehouse/summer kitchen.

There are quite a few log houses similarly disguised in my area.

Local children must have played in there never knowing it was the home of a king.

According to the king's wikipedia page, he may have married a daughter of Charlemagne.

“that time Saint Hardulph has a cell in a cliff a little from the Trent”.

That’s my mama’s great, great, great whatever granddaddy! She wants her property! Being her sole beneficiary and the some day executor of her estate I demand England immediately sign over title to the property in question so that mother can enjoy the property during her golden years!

We cousins just had a mini reunion at the family homestead where Mom lives. We’re in our 70s now, and were showing the youngsters where the barns and grainery used to be, and the one-room school house. All of it is just field now, but we remember all of it well.

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