homesteaders had to battle hot winds, drought, raids from native Americans, and hailstorms to save their crops. But the year 1874 promised to be different. “In the spring of 1874,” wrote Mrs. Everett Rorabaugh, “the farmers began their farming with high hopes, some breaking ...
Mr. Pennant mentions, for instances, the practice of scalping among the Scythians; their lingering ferocity towards their captives; the Tartarian mode of burial; the practice of pricking their faces and marking the punctures with charcoal, as observed by the Tungusi, the most numerous nation ...
of the far-away country under the guns of the English forts, where the Red Men still wielded the tomahawk and the scalping knife. It was they who gave the East no rest until their vision was seen by the leaders on the seaboard who directed the course of national policy. It was one ...
Over the next four years, Audet and Awe's research in the site epicenter would continue, discovering elaborate royal tombs and architecture at several locations in Group A [45–47], the palace complex of Group B [48], evidence of ritual activity and scalping in an Early Classic cache at ...
If there’s anybody to blame specifically, it should be shared between Barry and the agents who were scalping him mercilessly. Matthew Benn (Hookworms, played ATP and were scheduled to play the cancelled ATP-organised Jabberwocky festival): I don’t think it registered with me at the time ...