Eagle Nectar in the Pock | Diggers

2m read

·Nov 11, 2024

There's something screaming right here. I got to dig this right now! KG and I are in Virginia, hot on the trail of legendary explorer John Smith. We're trying to make history and be the first to find artifacts from Smith's 1608 expedition of the Chesapeake Bay that can be displayed in the museum.

Thanks to our archaeologist, Marc, we discovered the foundation of a historic house alongside the Native American Trail where John Smith and Pocahontas could have been. And I just got a slammin' hit! I pull out this clump of brass and I'm thinking right away, "Oh, it's just garbage," and then I take a second look.

Oh! Oh! This could be something great! I have no idea, it's almost too much to bear. Look at it! Can you see the magic? Holy cow! My mind froze up like a machine with gears that get a stick caught in it, and it seizes up like this. Just like that, KG, I just found something that's—I don't even know how to describe it! It's so crazy awesome! How much shaking? I cannot believe this!

Look at the giant eagle in the holeshot! Oh my God! Yeah, you know what it is? It's got to be some military thing, awfully from accoutrement. That could be Civil War, that could be this, because even older, older! There's another eagle right there!

Oh, there is double eagle! Haha! I know I've got some awesome old military item. It's obviously not John Smith era because it has the U.S. eagle on it, but this is an amazing find!

Yeah, baby! I got awesomeness in the pock! Listening to this off the camera wire. Hey, look at this mark! Wow! Tell me what it is! Tell me, Marc! You can tell me! I have no idea what it is—the artifact that we just found. We're gonna take some pictures of it, try to figure out what it is. Just don't know at this time.

Messages and morals | Reading | Khan Academy

The Problem With Financial Minimalism

View All

There’s a Bear in My Backyard | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic

Foreign. It seemed to be happening everywhere this past summer. North of Boston, this is a very popular bear in Wilmington, popping up out of hedges and onto lawns. Near Saint Paul, Minnesota, in the video, you can see kids jumping off the playground equi…

Changes to the role of the presidency | AP US Government and Politics | Khan Academy

So, John, how has the role of the presidency changed over the last several hundreds of years? It’s changed dramatically. First of all, when the founders created the presidency, they left it kind of loose. They weren’t exactly very specific about what a p…

Finding the whole with a tape diagram

We are told that Keisha can run 170 meters in one minute. This is 125 percent of the distance that she could run in one minute three years ago. How far could Kisha run in one minute three years ago? Pause this video and see if you can figure this out. A…

Convergence on macro scale | GDP: Measuring national income | Macroeconomics | Khan Academy

We’ve talked about things that might drive inequality, things that Thomas Piketty refers to as forces of divergence. But now, let’s think about, or at least some of what he cites as forces of convergence. So, forces of convergence are things that might ma…

The present tense | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy

Hello grammarians! Welcome to the present tense, or that which is happening right now. The present tense is how we talk about things that are happening in the present moment, like “I eat a donut.” If I say that, you know, if I say it that way, it means i…

Feedback in living systems | Growth and feedback in organisms | High school biology | Khan Academy

So last weekend, my family and I went out hiking in the desert. And as you can tell from these pictures I snapped along the way, it was a gorgeous hike. We made our way to this lake around a small canyon range and up and down this mountain trail. Now, al…

Eagle Nectar in the Pock | Diggers

More Articles