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The Spirit Houses of Russian Alaska
In 1873, Catherine, Empress of All the Russias, issued an edict that would see missionaries journey from Russia to Russian America and by the following year 18 priests had arrived. The Russian fur traders who had been there for years didn't get along with the missionaries and the Natives were hostile to both groups for usurping their land.But the missionaries persisted and began[...]
Mortsafes Put a Stop to Grave Robbery
Designed to protect gravesites from any sort of thieving or disturbance, mortsafes were first invented in the early 1800s in Scotland. A mortsafe is similar to the design of a cage, using heavy iron and stone plates and rods as well as a padlock to ensure no one could find their way through the contraption to get to the coffin buried below. The safes were placed around coffins for an[...]
A Tent for Sir Richard Burton's Tomb
Sir Richard Burton began his travels as a young boy as he travelled with his parents, his father was a British army officer, to posts in Asia and Africa. It was then that he began mastering different languages - at his death he was fluent in 25 different languages , 40 if you counted distinct dialects.In 1853, at the age of 21 he joined the army of the East India Company. In 1853 he[...]
Soul Catchers
When herbal remedies had no effect on curing an illness, shamans of the Tsimshian, Haida, Heiltsuk, and Tlingit tribes of the Pacific Northwest Coast of British Columbia and Alaska were called in because it was believed the person's soul was lost during dream travels, frightened out of the body or stolen through sorcery. If there was no soul in the body, the body was empty and wouldn't[...]
How The African Burial Ground National Monument Came To Be
Plans for a new Federal building in Lower Manhattan were halted when, in October 1991, the discovery of a slave burial ground was made.Initially, archaeologists who had been asked to survey the area predicted that there would be nothing of interest in the area, as the neighborhood surrounding 290[...]
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