By Jack Brummet, Green River Valley History Ed.
A couple of slowly crumbling granite monuments on Auburn Way North in Auburn, Wash., memorialize victims of the Treaty War. Lieutenant William Slaughter and other soldiers, died in 1855 in an attack by native Americans. When I was a kid, this memorial was known as the Massacre.
I was always fascinated and asked to stop whenever we passed by these memorials in our car. There were the first "historical markers" I'd ever seen. They are still there, but I haven't stopped by in at least 45 years. . .
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By Jack Brummet, Statue and Monument Ed.
Did you know the Statue of Liberty has the condition known as Morton's toe (or Greek foot or "Royal Toe" or "LaMay toe" or "Sheppard's Toe" or Morton's syndrome? According to the Wikipedia: "Long toe) is the common term for the condition of a shortened first metatarsal in relation to the second metatarsal. It is a type of brachymetatarsia."
"The metatarsal bones behind the toes vary in relative length. In Morton's foot, the first metatarsal, behind the big toe, is short compared to the second metatarsal, next to it. The long second metatarsal puts the joint at the base of the second toe (the second metatarsal-phalangeal, or MTP, joint) further forward. If the big toe and the second toe next to it are the same length, the second toe will be longer than the big toe," as shown in the photo below:
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By Jack Brummet
The other Iron Man—in Chisolm, Minnesota, by sculptor Jack Anderson (85 feet high, 150 tons). The monument was completed in 1987.
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