Ismael Ax, part 2

A letter to the editor, requesting anonymity:

Well, linking this to Jim Jones seems a bit of a stretch...

But regarding mountaintop removal, apparently V-tech is home to "...the largest mining and minerals
engineering program in the nation..."


Here's an interesting avenue of research, from Kurt Nimmo

"the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, according to The Pit Bulletin (the newsletter of the Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), is designed for “military needs, ranging from unique designs for underground sporting arenas to storing various types of waste materials….
the AMADEUS team feel that the expanding world population is creating a demand for additional types of underground construction.”

But for good PR...
there's that magic number again

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And I have a few more details of note:

The mountains surrounding Blacksburg feed the headwaters of the Roanoke river.

While the VT massacre anticipated the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown by a few weeks, it might as well have marked the 400th anniversary to the day or week of Powhatan's massacre of the surviving remnant of the Roanoke colony that had resettled in the Chesapeake area, according to Strachey's "Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania."

There were said to be but seven survivors of that massacre, escaping into the woods to take refuge with the Chowan tribe... yes, the Cho-wans; history's tiny details are ever a source of dark irony indeed...