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"Little Foot" (Stw 573) is the nickname given to a nearly complete Australopithecus fossil skeleton found in 1994–1998 in the cave system of Sterkfontein, South Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Lee died of pleurisy at his residence (named "Menokin") in Richmond County, Virginia, on January 11, 1797, following his wife's death four days prior. He is buried in the Tayloe family burial ground at Mount Airy Plantation, near Warsaw, Virginia. [8] The World War II Liberty Ship SS Francis L. Lee was named in his honor.
A large Mothman sculpture stands along Main Street Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007 in Point Pleasant, W.Va. More than 40 years after the first reported sighting of the mysterious creature later dubbed ...
The Criel Mound, also known as the South Charleston Mound, is a Native American burial mound located in South Charleston, West Virginia.It is one of the few surviving mounds of the Kanawha Valley Mounds that were probably built in the Woodland period after 500 B.C. [2] The mound was built by the Adena culture, probably around 250–150 BC, [citation needed] and lay equidistant between two ...
Douglas Owsley (left) and Danny Schmidt examining the possible remains of Captain Bartholomew Gosnold (left). Jamestown Rediscovery is an archaeological project of Preservation Virginia (formerly the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) investigating the remains of the original English settlement at Jamestown established in the Virginia Colony in North America beginning on ...
Archeologists have found two quarter-sized pottery fragments they believe could have belonged to a member of the Lost Colony from Roanoke. The fragments were found buried in the soil just 75 yards ...
A 5,000-year-old ceremonial temple found buried in Peru changes our ... We still know very little about how and under which ... L.J. Cryer scores 28 to lead No. 5 Houston past No. 8 Iowa State 68 ...
1780-1782 Francis Lee serves in the Virginia State Senate. 1797 Francis and Rebecca Lee die in January and are buried at Mount Airy. 1797 Menokin descends to heir of Francis Lightfoot Lee. 1799-1800 In a series of seven court-recorded transactions, John Tayloe III gains title to the entire Menokin property.