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Big Piney Examiner

Location

Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America

Date

Jun 06, 1940

Page

7

Mystery of Easter Island statues and hats puzzle explained

On Easter Day 1722 Dutch Admiral Roggeveen landed at a Pacific island later named for the day. The shores were lined with enormous stone statues and tall red hats on high pedestals. Early explorers found wooden tablets and a web of theories about outside races and lost cultures. Science began with local legends of migrations and distinct “long ears” and “short ears” peoples.

Roggeveen Pacific

One Step The Sublime and the Ridiculous

Quote from Thomas Paine notes how the sublime and ridiculous blend in perception. The passage argues that the line between them shifts with perspective, placing the line between high seriousness and trivial humor in constant motion.

Thomas Paine

Quotations on Wisdom and Courage from Poets and Thinkers

A fragmentary collection of famed sayings and aphorisms attributed to Sandi Emerson Gibbon Christina Rossetti and Frederick I Robertson. The lines praise resilience memory caution and optimistic navigation amid fortune and life’s surprises.

Emerson Gibbon Christina Rossetti Tnderness Prederick I. Robertson

Migration of Islanders From Pacific and Australasian Regions

The text recalls migrants arriving from Pacific and Australasian islands. It notes long ears as artists, tidal customs to stretch wars, and ceremonial hats. It mentions creators of an intricate unreadable script, defeated by short ears, leaving no witnesses to their history. Science cannot explain why Easter Island migrants advanced beyond other island groups.

Pacific Islands Australasian Islands Easter Island

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