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 * ... that Indian Mound Cemetery, originally created by the Hopewell culture, was defended in battle by Confederate soldiers and is the last resting place of an owner of the Washington Redskins?
 * ... that American Canadian scientist Jack Souther contributed significantly to the early understanding of Quaternary volcanism in Canada?
 * ... that both Fordilla and Pojetaia, Cambrian members of the extinct bivalve family Fordillidae, are part of the Turkish small shelly fauna?
 * ...that 12,000-year-old Paleo-Indian artifacts, including a rare fluted point, have been found in a quarry near Goshen, New York?
 * ... that the fossil maple species Acer kenaicum was suggested to be an ancestor of silver maples?
 * ...that Mayanist scholar and archaeologist Sylvanus Griswold Morley was also an American secret agent in World War I?
 * ... that malacologist Myra Keen was called the "First Lady of Malacology"?
 * ... that the cretaceous subfamily Sphecomyrminae has not been included in several recent phylogenetic studies of the ant family?
 * ... that fossil specimens of the extinct scorpionfly family Dinopanorpidae, which includes Dinopanorpa and Dinokanaga, sometimes have preserved dark with light to clear color patterning?
 * ... that the long-nosed god maskettes (pictured) found throughout the American Midwest are believed to have been used in the ritual adoption of visiting tribal leaders?