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It could be soil from a battlefield - the Wikipedia article on the subject of the statue says there "are monuments to him around the world ... bringing earth fr
by m-i-l 3y ago
It could be soil from a battlefield - the Wikipedia article on the subject of the statue says there "are monuments to him around the world ... bringing earth from the battlefields where he had fought"[0]
But I liked the anticlimactic way the BBC article on the subject[1] ended:
"'I am sure some in our audience have questions for our various experts up on stage?' Ms Voigtschild said after the mud was found.
There were none."
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66641401 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66641401