No, Jim, just a point of history.
Jeffrey L. Boyer, RPA
Supervisory Archaeologist/Project Director
Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico
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"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." -L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Jim [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:30 PM
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Subject: Re: Today in history
I don't get it...is this supposed to be a political statement?
James G. Gibb
Gibb Archaeological Consulting
2554 Carrollton Road
Annapolis, Maryland USA 21403
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www.gibbarchaeology.org www.porttobacco.blogspot.com
Apr 12, 2011 07:27:43 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
Today in history: Seven states having seceded from the United States in January 1861, on April 12, 1861 South Carolina troops fired on Federal troops at Fort Sumter, beginning the armed hostilities of the War of Northern Aggression (unarmed hostilities having begun much earlier).
Jeffrey L. Boyer, RPA
Supervisory Archaeologist/Project Director
Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico
* mail: P.O. Box 2087, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504
* physical: 407 Galisteo Street, Suite B-100, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
* tel: 505.827.6387 fax: 505.827.3904
* e-mail: [log in to unmask]
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." -L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953
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