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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Eagle, mound, placid, notion look like Saturday's Word Jumble answers.
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There were some ideas of Franklin that were quite quaint. One was the
notion that the Turkey rather than the Bald
Eagle should be the national bird.
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/turkey/history.cfm Another was the theory that the
Moundbuilders were actually supply dumps from the De Soto expedition. The Mounds were Indian burial grounds or other such cultural artifacts. There was nothing
placid about the attempted solutions to this Moundbuilder mystery as one can see from the link below.
Golden Age of Moundbuilders
http://www.history2u.com/book1_discovery.htm