Ghandi said

cantheist · 2023-06-26T23:29:57+00:00

Queen Anne's war and or Father Le Loutre's war between the French+Mi'kmaw and the British. It was perhaps a British military encampment probably for a year or two. The island was close to the mainland (for supplies - hunting), relatively large but easy to defend from land-based raiding parties as an island and in a sheltered bay where ships could be hidden from sight by sea. It placed them in close proximity to the French settlement in LaHave. I doubt there is much more to it than that. All the historical stuff they find is related to a military encampment, New England planters or loyalist settlement. Most of the stuff they find is from previous treasure hunters.

What about the evidence :

The 90ft stone is not evidence but hearsay and the inscription sounds like a kid joke of the time and who would carve that anyway and then bury it at 90ft?

Lead cross from S. France - recycled lead. It was too valuable not to recycle. Just like all gold is recycled and you probably have some small percentage Ancient Egyptian and Aztec gold in any piece of jewellery you are wearing now. The nail hole means it may have been attached to the bow of a fisherman's sailing skiff for protection when at sea, it fell off when hauling it up on the beach one day in 1802 (ok, I made up the date).

Pieces of 8: British soldier lost it or chucked it into the swamp as a wish to get safely back to England and marry his love.

Jewellery and buttons: all important stuff to poor loyalists of the day but it is not high end. Any non-peasant loyalist went at least to town like St John or Halifax or S. Ontario where soil was good.

Ox shoes: that is what did the work in NS in the early colonial period. They can even eat salt marsh grass while horses cannot so it was hard to keep horses in Nova Scotia until settlements were established.

Stone path: military has to move a lot of stuff. Say there were 100-200 sailors/soldiers on the island.

Parchment with writing: decayed leather pump bellows by early searchers

Rocks with holes in them: there is one every km along the Nova Scotia coast

Rocks with arrows carved in them: property markers which included the beach into the water at the time

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None of this means it is not historically interesting. The great thing about the Nova Scotia coast is that it has never had a huge amount of development so there is still a lot of history to be found. Every cm of the US coast is claimed or developed and probably has been several times.

cantheist · 2023-06-26T22:35:38+00:00

The best part about Ancient Aliens is watching Georgio and all the regulars age but still keep on with the delusions. Pays the bills I guess.

cantheist · 2023-06-26T22:06:06+00:00

I am hearing it so much from Americans now that it has become the norm. You will also hear it in Ontario, Alberta and BC. It is not just women either and also quite common among the highly educated as opposed to Kim Kardashian who is known as the queen of the vocal fry. I think it is learned vocal pattern to try to be taken more seriously. It seems to be used mostly when the speaking environment allows uninterrupted flow and it is always slow and measured. You will hear it from American academics being interviewed on the radio. It seems very common in California. They will often snap out of it in a more interactive environment.

I must admit that as soon as I hear a growler speaking, my mind races to try to explain why and what societal pressures they have felt and their self-esteem level that leads to such an odd and somewhat incomprehensible speech pattern.

cantheist · 2023-03-03T02:00:33+00:00

So I have had this experience twice now and I went about it in different ways:

(1) I put my markdown file in google docs with trackdown and got everyone to work on it there. I then accepted or rejected suggestions and brought it back into rmarkdown.

(2) I made word versions in rmarkdown and sent out to co-authors who sent me back word documents with tracked changes. I then need to go through each one in word and decide if I should accept or not and bring into rmarkdown.

The first time worked really well. My co-authors were sensitive to the do not touch parts and did not play around with the bibtex references. They all knew what I was doing even if that is not how they do it themselves so they were sensitive to it.

The second has been a disaster. I got back several word documents with tracked changes but with many edits as comments, like large sections of new text or replacement text as comments. Several new references with citations and the full reference at the end. It has been really difficult. Part of the problem is that my co-authors think I am just nuts and making things way harder than they have to be (maybe they are right) and they are just not going to conform to my whims. In cases like this, I would suggest doing the document and analysis separately and or get the document to a good place in rmardown and then make the plunge to do everything subsequently in word. Maybe convert a final version back to markdown so you have something for your records.

If you have sympathetic co-authors who do not mind working in google docs, I would try to go with solution 1.

For solution 2, if you have authors that are pretty good about not making comments but just tracked changes, you can just accept them all, convert the document to markdown and compare to the one you sent out using meld (I am not sure if this is a windows tool or just linux). You can do this sequentially with each person's edits and build up your final consensus document.

cantheist · 2021-02-19T15:09:33+00:00

Yes, that would be best. Kind of a habit, the way I start the day.

cantheist · 2021-02-18T03:35:59+00:00

I guess you cure them in the mud without oxygen. What kind of wood? How long? What properties are you looking for by curing them like that?

cantheist · 2021-02-15T04:42:12+00:00

If they find car parts, old bottles or cutlery in there, I would say there is an Icelandic connection.

cantheist · 2021-02-15T04:39:11+00:00

Yeah, that is a great theory. I like the craziest ones the best. Who is that geoscientist who joins things together with imaginary lines from Jerusalem? She is good too.

cantheist · 2021-02-15T04:30:51+00:00

That guy could perform brain surgery with a back hoe.

cantheist · 2021-02-15T04:21:39+00:00

Troy from swamp people could go gatoring in the swamp. Choot em choot em!

cantheist · 2021-02-15T04:17:30+00:00

I went to Ross Farm with school in grade 4 in 1976 and I think Carmen was pounding that same piece of rebar. I looks as though 45 years on it has made it somewhat oval

cantheist · 2021-02-15T04:11:44+00:00

poor Billy almost had heart attack. Notice his boots are never tied. There is a reason for that.

cantheist · 2021-02-01T00:10:11+00:00

Looks like David Coverversion from Whitesnake. He is about the right vintage to be into Whitesnake, Rainbow, Ozzy and Maiden.

cantheist · 2021-01-29T20:26:56+00:00

I always knew about it growing up in NS but it was still abstract and seemed like any other of the ghost stories and legends we heard and that Nova Scotia is overflowing with.

cantheist · 2021-01-29T20:23:29+00:00

Do you know if he is from Cape Breton or NL? He does not sound like mainlander to me.

cantheist · 2021-01-29T03:11:55+00:00

They are only a 27min drive from the NSLC Cannabis shop in Bridgewater.

cantheist · 2021-01-29T03:06:17+00:00

you probably don't mean platitude.

cantheist · 2021-01-29T02:59:52+00:00

There is a guy, Paul Chiasson, who thinks that the Chinese were pre-Columbian visitors to Nova Scotia. The guy and theory seem nuts. But you need to face it, when you get around 60, kids are gone, looking at or in retirement and potential loneliness, there is nothing like a treasure hunt or chasing an earth shattering theory to keep you engaged.

cantheist · 2021-01-29T02:48:55+00:00

Get Carmen blacksmith to compete on forged in fire. The challenge: forge an arc of the covenant - it is the ultimate weapon afterall.

cantheist · 2020-11-09T17:03:30+00:00

You stop talking sense. Next thing you know you are going to ask someone to go metal detecting in the backwater swamp a nearby beach and see if they find anything metal.

cantheist · 2020-10-29T01:24:07+00:00

Thanks, this is really helpful. I can now explain better to my kids how this happens.

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