dailymail.co.uk - The subpoena was revealed in a court filing made by lawyers for the families of the five children seeking modifications to an order of protection in order to prevent the release of the records. AR-15 maker Remington subpoenas report cards and disciplinary records of five kids killed in Sandy Hook massacre: Families which sued now-bankrupt company say they have no idea why it wants the documents The subpoena was revealed in a court filing made on Thursday by lawyers for the families of the five children Remington also subpoenaed for the employment files of four educators who were killed during the horrific massacre, who are included in the lawsuit The families are seeking modifications to an order of protection in order to prevent the release of the records The nine families lost loved ones when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut in 2012 The wrongful death suit was filed against Remington on December 15, 2014 The case, which claims Remington recklessly marketed its Bushmaster Model XM15-E2S .223-caliber semiautomatic rifle, will go to trial this month
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Picnic with cannibals: Wisconsin’s Aztalan State Park was home to mysterious, ancient city whose residents ate their enemies
BY JOHN BORDSEN - TRAVEL EDITOR OCTOBER 17, 2013 09:12 AM , UPDATED OCTOBER 18, 2013 03:08 PM
Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/travel/article9091931.html#storylink=cpy
Westbound from Milwaukee, the scenery on I-94 gradually shifts from subdivision and strip malls to rolling Wisconsin prairie blanketed in cornfields. At Exit 259, about two-thirds of the way to Madison, some make a seven-minute detour to Aztalan State Park, a tranquil rest stop on the banks of the Crawfish River. It’s a chance to see an unusual archaeological site, an outpost of a long-lost Indian civilization. Toward twilight, you can sit atop a grass-covered, 900-year ceremonial mound and take in the pastoral vistas.
Few know Aztalan as intimately as Robert Birmingham, who retired as official state archaeologist and is now a professor of anthropology at UW-Waukesha, near Milwaukee. His “Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town” was published in 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
Here’s his take: “Aztalan was the northern outpost of a great civilization comparable to other great early civilizations in the world. We call them the Mississippians; they rose after AD 1000 and had, at its center, the first city in what is now the United States – that’s Cahokia, in present-day Illinois. It was a very large city and had a society that was very complex. It was similar to Mayan cities in Mexico. They built large earthen mounds as platforms for important buildings. The major mound at Cahokia, where the ruler probably lived, is 100 feet high and greater in volume than the Great Pyramid of Egypt, though built of earth.”
Birmingham said this farming society developed and expanded throughout much of Eastern North America. The Crawfish feeds into the Rock River, a tributary of the Mississippi; water transportation was the common way of getting around. The Aztalan outpost lasted perhaps 100 to 150 years.
Around the year 1200, the Mississippian civilization collapsed in the Upper Midwest, for reasons still undetermined. One current theory points to worldwide climate change around 1200, when there was a century of drought. “Obviously, that made it harder to grow enough food for large populations,” Birmingham said. “People just disbursed.
“Indigenous disease has also been brought up. When you get 20,000 people living together in poor sanitary conditions, it’s ripe for epidemic. Things like tuberculosis have been found among the Mississippians.”
Persistent warfare could have been a factor on the Crawfish River, he said. “The Mississippian culture was aggressive and expanding. Aztalan is one of most heavily fortified sites in the archaeological record of Eastern North America.”
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