Rafinesque

So, I called and asked, and sure enough, supreme hacker mage-lord Pierre Teilhard de Chardin stayed at the Inn for two weeks in 1953 waiting (fruitlessly, it turned out) to get access to anthropological artifacts held at the Tenskwatawa and Rafinesque Archive, which, as I've mentioned before, I am happy to claim as one of My Libraries.

November 2008 2008

There are a few places left in Kentucky, mostly on family farms, where you can see them as Rafinesque did, geometric land sculptures covered with grass, half in the field and half in the forest.

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The items Teilhard didn't get to examine -- the beadwork belts that Tenskawatawa and Constantine Rafinesque crafted together at their 1824 meeting -- were ultimately handed over to Shawnee tribal leaders in Kansas on December 25th, 1969, which happens to be my birthdate (and how cool is that?).

Teilhard in the Bluegrass 2008

The items Teilhard didn't get to examine -- the beadwork belts that Tenskawatawa and Constantine Rafinesque crafted together at their 1824 meeting -- were ultimately handed over to Shawnee tribal leaders in Kansas on December 25th, 1969, which happens to be my birthdate (and how cool is that?).

November 2008 2008

On and on, lineages of chiefs, names, dates, for thousands of years, information that would change everything, had Rafinesque actually possessed it, had he not somehow himself been able to sit there and endure the sheer tedium of inventing it.

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So, I called and asked, and sure enough, supreme hacker mage-lord Pierre Teilhard de Chardin stayed at the Inn for two weeks in 1953 waiting (fruitlessly, it turned out) to get access to anthropological artifacts held at the Tenskwatawa and Rafinesque Archive, which, as I've mentioned before, I am happy to claim as one of My Libraries.

Teilhard in the Bluegrass 2008

Rafinesque declares it "high time that these monuments should all be accurately surveyed" and undertakes the work himself.

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Darwin said of Rafinesque, “He saw evolution before me.”

American Connections James Burke 2007

In the course of all this he corresponded with contemporary American scientists including Constantine Rafinesque.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Brought up in Marseilles, France, Rafinesque arrived in America in 1798 to learn business and then traveled the country collecting botanical specimens.

American Connections James Burke 2007