Long-lost remains of 44 Revolutionary War soldiers will finally get proper burial in NY town
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“The long-lost remains of what’s likely more than 40 Revolutionary War soldiers will be returned to an upstate town for a proper burial in a military graveyard Friday”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that the remains of 44 people, believed to be Revolutionary War soldiers, are being returned to Lake George for burial.
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— The French Revolutionary Wars (French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitt…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars
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— The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN; Persian: نیروی دریایی سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, romanized: niru-ye daryâyi-e sepâh-e pâsdârân-e enghelâb-e eslâmi; officially abbreviated in Persi…
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— The Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument is a war memorial at Fort Greene Park, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It commemorates more than 11,500 American prisoners of war who died in captivity aboa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Ship_Martyrs'_Monument
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Ship_Martyrs'_Monument
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“The fallen Army officers — whose bones were unearthed by chance during a construction project seven years ago — will be laid to rest in caskets at Lake George’s Battlefield Park”
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Multiple sources confirm the remains were unearthed during construction and will be reinterred at Lake George Battlefield Park.
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— The French Revolutionary Wars (French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitt…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars
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— Lake Champlain ( sham-PLAYN; French: Lac Champlain, pronounced [lak ʃɑ̃plɛ̃] ) is a large natural freshwater lake in North America. With a length of 107 mi (172 km) and surface area over 500 sq mi (1,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Champlain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Champlain
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— The War of 1812 was a conflict initiated by the United States against the United Kingdom and its allies fought mainly in North America and at sea during the wider Napoleonic Wars. The United States de…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812
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“Construction crews stumbled on an 18th-century cemetery below Courtland Street in Lake George in 2019”
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Web search results specifically mention the 'Courtland Street Burying Ground' and that remains were unearthed during a construction dig in 2019 in Lake George.
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— Norfolk County in the Canadian province of Ontario consists of a long list of communities. Its four designated population centres are Simcoe, Port Dover, Delhi, and Waterford.
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— Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills was one of the most successful and enduring products to be manufactured and marketed in North America as part of the lucrative patent medicine industry, which thrived dur…
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— From its founding in 1847, Atlanta has had a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased. As early as 1903 (see section below)…
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“archaeologists later recovered what’s believed to be the remains of 44 soldiers”
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Multiple sources explicitly state that 44 people/soldiers' remains were recovered from the site.
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— The Nasura Pillar Site, registered as GcJh3 and also known as Namoratunga II, is an archaeological site on the west side of Lake Turkana in Kenya dating to the Pastoral Neolithic. Namoratunga means "p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalokol_Pillar_Site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalokol_Pillar_Site
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— Stephen Williams (August 28, 1926 – June 2, 2017) was an archaeologist at Harvard University who held the title of Peabody Professor of North American Archaeology and Ethnography.
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— Xiaochangliang (simplified Chinese: 小长梁; traditional Chinese: 小長梁; pinyin: Xiǎochángliáng) is the site of some of the earliest Paleolithic remains in East Asia, located in the Nihewan (泥河灣) Basin in Y…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaochangliang
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“The bones were later transported to the New York State Museum in Albany”
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The evidence confirms the New York State Museum in Albany was involved in the recovery and analysis of the remains.
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— This list of museums in New York is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care f…
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— New York, also called New York State, is a state located in the northeastern United States. Bordering New England to its east, Canada to its north, and Pennsylvania and New Jersey to its south, it ext…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(state)
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— The New York State Museum is a research-backed institution in Albany, New York, United States. It is located on Madison Avenue, attached to the south side of the Empire State Plaza, facing onto the pl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Museum
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“Julie Weatherwax, a New York State Museum bioarcheology technician, said she spent months examining teeth to determine how many people they’d likely dug up”
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Web search results identify Julie Weatherwax as a Research and Collections Technician at the New York State Museum and place her in the lab working on the 18th-century remains.
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— Lisa Anderson and Julie Weatherwax, of the New York State Museum, stand in their lab where they pieced back together 18th-century remains unearthed on Courtland Street in Lake George.
https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/local-news/20…
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— Contact. Office of State History. Chartering. Events.Julie Weatherwax. Research and Collections Technician. 518-473-1440.
https://nysm.nysed.gov/research-collections/archaeology/bioa…
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— Quora is a place to gain and share knowledge. It's a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers. This empowers people to learn from each other…
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“A forensic artist also reconstructed the face of what’s believed to be a teenage soldier”
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Multiple sources confirm that forensic artist Jenny Kenyon reconstructed the face of a soldier from the recovered remains.
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— Forensic facial reconstruction (or forensic facial approximation) is the process of recreating the face of an individual (whose identity is often not known) from their skeletal remains through an amal…
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— Facial reconstruction created by forensic artist Jenny Kenyon Courtesy: New York State Museum Nearly 250 Years After His Death, Reconstruction Offers Powerful New Glimpse of Soldier Recovered from Cou…
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— Researchers used 3D printing and forensic art to recreate the possible look of the soldier whose bones were found among the remains of 44 people.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/revolutionary-war-so…
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/revolutionary-war-so…
“The transportation and re-burial Friday is part of a so-called “Repose of the Fallen” project”
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Web search results explicitly name the 'Repose of the Fallen' project in connection with the motorcade and re-burial.
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— In earlier forms of the Roman Rite, some of which are still in use, a Requiem Mass differs in several ways from the usual Mass. Some parts that were of relatively recent origin, including some that ha…
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— The motorcade for the “Repose of the Fallen” project will include New York State Police leading nine Korean War and Vietnam-era military trucks operated by members of the NY-Penn Military Vehicle Coll…
https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/remains-of-44-fallen-patri…
https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/remains-of-44-fallen-patri…
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— How to complete the missable moving on quest with Byron and Winterberry in The Lords of the Fallen.
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“will feature a motorcade will including New York State Police leading nine Korean War and Vietnam-era military trucks”
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Although the 'evidence gathered' section for claim 8 says 'No evidence found', the evidence provided for claim 7 explicitly describes the motorcade including New York State Police and nine Korean War and Vietnam-era military trucks operated by the NY-Penn Military Vehicle Collectors Club.
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