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He went with the Braves because they offered hom $50 more a month. For three months, he played for the Indianapolis Clowns and then he got two offers from the MLB, one from the Boston Braves and the other from the New York Giants. Aaron dreamed of being like his hero Jackie Robinson and just like Robinson, when he finally made it into the Negro American League in 1951, he experienced some overt racism. He practiced by hitting bottle caps with a stick and made balls and bats out of anything he could find laying around. Aaron was born in 1934 in Mobile, Alabama to a poor family. In the month of April, on the 8th, in 1974, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run. This Month in History - Hank Aaron Beats Babe Ruth's Home Run Record And an old Himalayan folk song lends some credence to that theory because its lyrics describe a goddess raining death down on those who defile her mountain with hailstones that were as "hard as iron." Finding a large group of skeletons frozen in a lake some 1,800 years after a hailstorm killed them all, certainly is odd! This was probably a weather event and based on stories we hear about baseball-sized hail stones, it's easy to believe that being out in an open valley during one of these storms, could lead to massive head trauma. But it didn't seem that weapons had made the wounds. Studying the skulls revealed little deep cracks and the only other wounds found were on the shoulders, leading experts to believe that the blows came from above. Was it some kind of exposure? Had there been an epidemic? Was there a natural disaster? Was this some kind of weird death ritual? Modern DNA tests helped scientists to figure out that these were two different ethnic groups and based on clothing and items found nearby, that this was probably a traveling group of people who were being lead by a hired group of local guides. Now they needed to figure out what had killed these people. The dry, cold air had preserved the bones and scientists found that they dated to around 850 AD. Archaloegists studied the bones and found they they were much older, so the skeletons could not belong to Japanese soldiers. The troop waited for the summer thaw to investigate it properly and they were left with two big questions: what year were they from and what killed some 200 people? Since the war was on, many suspected that these were Japanese soldiers who were sneaking through the air and died of exposure. This lake was 16,000 feet above sea level and set at the bottom of a small valley. A lake full of skeletons, only this lake was frozen. In 1942, a British troop in Roopkund, India made an alarming discovery that came to be known as the Mystery of Skeleton Lake. Moment in Oddity - The Mystery of Skeleton Lake This episode sponsored by Kobo Audiobooks, check out and use code HISTORY40 for 40% off and also by the History or His Story Podcast at.
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