The Honey War

The Honey War wasn't really about honey. It was a dispute over state lines. There are some bee trees in the mix, as well as some truly sub-par surveying work. It's a story full of silliness, pride and bureaucracy.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Stuff you missed in History Class from how
Stuff Works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast Puck,
Tracy B. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry. They we are
going to talk about the Honey War, was the dispute
that was fortunately not really a war. It led to

(00:23):
zero human casualties, and it wasn't particularly over honey either.
But it's a story that's full of silliness and pride
and obstinacy and bureaucracy, and it's kind of a goofy
story of weird land dispute. I felt like we needed
something to lighten the load up a little bit. So

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similarly to the time that we did the one about
Popsicle and Good Humor suing each other a lot, this
one is about Missouri and Iowa bickering over where their
border was. I had hoped it was going to be
about Winnie the Pooh arguing with Rabbit, but it's not.
It comes off a little like that there. It's all
a listener request from Amy, and I know other people
have requested it also, But it's one of those things

(01:05):
where the name is so memorable that, uh, I didn't
I didn't write down any of the other people besides
Amy who asked for it. So, as Tracy had mentioned,
the Honey War was a dispute between Missouri and Iowa
in the eighteen thirties. Before Iowa officially became a state.
Missouri had been granted U S statehood on August tenth
of EE, and the setting of Missouri's northern border when

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it became a state was at the heart of the
Honey War. Missouri's acceptance into the Union was kind of
a complicated matter because it wanted to join the Union
as a slave state. At that point, the United States
had eleven free states and eleven slave states, so there
was an equal power balance between the slave states and
the free states and Congress. A twelve slave state would

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have tipped the balance of power in favor of the
slave states, which most of the free states and the
federal government were just not willing to allow. So if
Missouri was going to join the Union, a free state
needed to join the Union as well, and the free
state in question worked out to be Maine, which had
previously been part of Massachusetts before its residents voted to
separate from Massachusetts on July eighteen nineteen. Was not that

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Maine and Missouri were basically admitted into the Union as
a slave state free state pair, with Maine being admitted
as a free state on March fifteenth of eighteen twenty
and then Missouri being admitted as a slave state on
August tenth of eighteen twenty one. Also part of this deal,
which is known as the Missouri Compromise, latitude thirty six
degrees thirty minutes, which was Missouri's southern border, was marked

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as the border between where slavery would be allowed and
where it wouldn't Until the passage of the Kansas Nebraska
Act in eighteen fifty four, new states that were south
of Missouri's southern border would be slave states, and new
states that were north of that line would be free.
This was all part of the nation's ongoing efforts to
simultaneously keep slave states happy while preventing them from becoming

(02:57):
more powerful than the free states, which is why will
sometimes here agreements like the Missouri Compromise referred to as
appeasements and not compromises. Yeah, what the North actually got
out of this was not going to war. In most cases,
Missouri's northern border, which it would eventually share with Iowa,
had been marked out by surveyor John C. Sullivan in

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eighteen sixteen, after Missouri's first petition to Congress to become
a state. Sullivan was a government appointed surveyor, and the
boundaries that he was delineating were between the soon to
be created state of Missouri and the o Sage Nation,
which had ceded that land to the United States in
eighteen o eight at the Treaty of Fort Clark. This
treaty is one of many that was weighted heavily in

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favor of the United States, and the Sage Nation nation
had definitely agreed to it under duress and gotten very
little compensation for the land itself. Sullivan's work was to
be quite frank full of errors. He had one job
who was basically to draw a straight line across the
state one hundred miles north of the camp fluents of
the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. This line would stretch across

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the state to the Des Moines River. This was both
a physical boundary on the ground and a line drawn
on a map. The first thing he did wrong was
basically to forget how to use a compass. Whoops, he
neglected to take into account that a compass needle points
to the planet's magnetic north pole, not true north, so

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his measurements on the ground, where he was relying on
incorrect compass readings, didn't correspond to the line that he
drew on the map. He also marked the boundary itself
by pulling up mounds of dirt as he went. Some
accounts indicate that he used posts, but the most scholarly
of all the sources used for today's show say no,

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it was mounds of earth. It was not posts. As
we just talked about in our podcast on the Schoolhouse Blizzard,
the weather in the American Midwest can be unpredictable and
prone to extremes, so piles of dirt cannot really be
expected to hold up to things like end and rain
and melting snow. And even if it was posts, they
were like small wooden posts at best, and that also

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would not have held up very well with these kinds
of weather factors. This meant that between eighteen sixteen, when
Sullivan marked the boundary in eighteen twenty, when Missouri actually
officially became state, the physical markers of the state's northern border,
which was known as the Sullivan Line or the Indian Line,
were basically destroyed the official description of where the border

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lay was that it was it was a parallel which
quote passed through the rapids of the des Moines River.
Number One, that's not a lot of very precise detail
about where this line was. Number Two, the rapids he
was talking about, We're not on the des Moines River.
They were on the Mississippi River. Oh Sullivan uh. In

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eighteen thirty seven, seventeen years after Missouri became a state,
another surveyor resurveyed the state's northern border to try to
correct the errors in the Sullivan line. This new servant
was also meant to remark the now completely unmarked border
with more durable markers. The governor, Lilburn W. Boggs, commissioned
Joseph C. Brown to do this work. It's a little

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unclear whether he ordered Brown to find and remark Sullivan's
boundary or to start from scratch, but regardless, what he
did was start by trying to find the rapids that
Sullivan had described in his original survey. The problem was,
there were really not any rapids in this part of
the river. And as we know, it's because he apparently
said des Moines River when he meant Mississippi River, so

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not knowing that, Brown made the call to start out
with some slightly rippling water he managed to find, which
was sixty three miles away from the mouth of the
Des Moines River. With that as a starting point, Brown
resurveyed the border, ending up with a line that was
between nine and thirteen miles north of Sullivan's line, because
while it was supposed to run along a parallel, it

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wasn't actually parallel. As a result, there were now two
possible locations from Missouri's northern border, the Sullivan line to
the south and the Brown line to the north. So
we've said that this was this was a dispute between
Missouri and Iowa, and it was, but at this point
Iowa was part of Wisconsin territory. With this confusion about

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the two lines, Wisconsin asked the federal government to officially
declare which border was the right one, but Congress didn't
elect to do so until Iowa actually became its own
territory separate from Wisconsin on June twelfth, eight Congress did
not accept either the Brown line or the Sullivan line
as the true northern border of Missouri, though it instead

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established a three member commission to sort the whole thing out,
with the federal government Iowa and Missouri each appointing one
member of the commission. Each member was supposed to survey
the line again and report back to the Commissioner of
the General Land Office. However, only two of the three
member commission actually showed up to do this work. One

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was from the ear Old government, one was appointed by Iowa.
This was because Governor Box of Missouri refused to participate
in this exercise. I have to say, it sounds like
the like a pretty good solution, doesn't seem like a balanced,
pretty fair way to approach. Get together, work it out.
There's a running theme in this whole story of get together,
work it out to be grown ups. I'msking too much. Uh.

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These two surveyors that did show up worked together through
much of the fall of eighty eight, but in the
end they didn't actually choose between the Brown and Sullivan lines. Instead,
they came up with four options for Missouri's northern border
from north to south. They were number one, the Brown line,
which Missouri claimed was the correct boundary. Number two, the

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line Sullivan had incorrectly marked in eighteen sixteen, as it
was incorrectly marked, which the commission really thought was a
fair and reasonable place to put it. Number three was
the corrected Sullivan line, as it should have in if
Sullivan had done his job correctly. And then number four
was Iowa's preferred location of the border, which was sort
of an unmarked hypothetical line where the Brown line would

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have been if it had started with the actual rapids
on the Mississippi River from Sullivan's original survey, not the
slightly rippling water on the Des Moines River from Brown's
later survey. Obviously, Missouri's preference of the Brown line gave
it more territory in Iowa less, and Iowa's preferred line
gave it more territory and Missouri less. The official report

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to the Commissioner of the General Land Office supposed that
the Sullivan line, as it her had originally been incorrectly marked,
would probably be acceptable to both Missouri and Iowa. Albert
Miller Lee, who wrote the report, didn't really think the
correct version of that line was legal or equitable. I mean,
at this point it was a line that existed in theory,
but nobody could ever used it as a border. He

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also refused to state whether Iowa's preferred line or the
Brown line, was the better order, although Iowa and Missouri
clearly both had strong opinions on this issue. Even though
it had not elected to send a surveyor to act
as part of this team, Missouri made the next move
in this bureaucratic back and forth, and we're going to
talk about that a bunch after we have a brief

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ord from a sponsor with the report to the Commissioner
of the General Land Office turned in. Missouri declared that
its territory extended to the Brown line, the northernmost of
all of these potential boundary lines that we talked about
before the break, and then it started sending its tax
men in to start assessing the land between the Selivan

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line and the Brown line for tax purposes. Someone sounds
like a cartoon about bureaucracy at this point, just picturing
a bunch of dudes tramping through the same space and
pointing to things and grim saying that's exactly what it was. Uh.
The twelve thousand or so people who were living in
this roughly two thousand, five hundred acres of land, though
mostly thought of themselves as Iowan's, they were not at

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all happy when Missouri tax officials started showing up to
assess their property for the purposes of a Missouri tax.
The Iowans who were living between the Sullivan and Brown
lines got together and they sent a delegation to talk
to Iowa Governor Robert Lucas. On July thirty nine, Governor
Lucas issued a proclamation demanding that Missouri stopped trying to

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tax Iowa citizens and basically tell them to get back
on their side of the Sullivan line. He also called
for Iowa officials in the area to maintain control of
the disputed territory, which he felt like was part of Iowa.
In August, Governor Boggs of Missouri then issued his own proclamation,
basically declaring that it had the right to do whatever
it wanted because that land was part of Missouri and
not Iowa. In September, Iowa asserted itself once again, insisting

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that the border stopped at the Sullivan line, having apparently
given up on the idea of a border even farther
to the south. Sheriffs and tax officials from Missouri who
went north of the Sullivan line to try to collect
taxes or enforced Missouri law were met with anger and
derision by the people who were living there, who still,
as we've said before, considered themselves to be island. And

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as all of this was going on, someone went into
the disputed territory and they cut down three or four
hollow trees that honey bees were nesting in. Be trees
were a precious commodity. Honey was expensive, so people who
managed to find and harvest from b trees could really
make a tidy profit off of doing so. Bees wax

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was also really important for candle making and other uses
we've talked about on the podcast before. Candles at one
point were very valuable, so unless you happen to stumble
onto one. The process of finding a bee tree was
also really difficult. You had to track wild bees sometimes
for miles just to be able to locate these trees.
So cutting down multiple be trees that people already knew

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about was a big deal. You know. There were little
boxes that people we used for this whole bee tracking.
So I saw one at the Woodman Institute Museum in
thever New Hampshire, which has inspired another podcast, the one
on the cohico Man skirt Um. It's basically a little
box and you would tempt to be into the air
with something sugary, and then when you let the be out,

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you would follow it in the direction that it goes,
because these usually go back to their hive in a
straight line, right, and so if you lost track, if
you lost sight of the bee, you would have to
like tempt another be another B and start over um
or or maybe if you had a really good compass reading,
you could just walk in a direction and hope that
you got to the right be there's a hole, or

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you could hope that it was a bee from the
same hive and each time you stopped they were going
to lead you closer. But you could end up on
a really crazy goo' not on a weird rabbit hunt,
a series of different be trees. So yeah, they're like
people had whole methods for tracking beans and like timing
how long it took a B to go from your
little box that you made to wherever it's mystery have

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was and then back. So yeah, if you think it's
probably difficult to track wild bees, yes, these are hard
to keep up with. They fly and are small, and
they don't like report in. It's also, I mean, to
be really honest, It's kind of unclear who cut down
these be trees. We don't know who cut them down. However,

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the story is that Missourians cut down the bea trees.
Iowan's totally knew innately that it was somebody from Missouri.
Nobody from Iowa would do that. There are not any
court records to support this, but the story is that
Iowa then tried this unknown person or persons in absentia
and then find them a dollar in fifty cents. Whether

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this really happened is kind of unclear, but the story
that it had happened spread. So Iowa was furious at
Missouri for cutting down the bea trees, and Missouri was
furious that Iowa for trying its citizens who were not
even present for the trial in a court in which
they did not even have any jurisdiction. Sheriff Gregory, who
was one of the Missourians who had previously tried to

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enforce the law north of the Sullivan line, made another
trip across that line to try to collect taxes. He
was arrested and jailed by an Iowa sheriff, and his
disappearance led some Missourians to believe that he had been kidnapped,
which is when Governor Boggs called in the militia. This
is all like such a terrible telephony gossip b schoolyard

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situation at this point. Meanwhile, in Iowa, the Legislative Assembly
passed a resolution in November insisting that the two governors
meet and work it out between themselves. Governor Governor Lucas,
who was the governor of Iowa, on the other hand,
he vetoed that resolution and said that it was the
United States that needed to do the working out and
not the individual states themselves. So then on not on

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November thirty nine, Governor Lucas ordered General David Willock and
General O. H. Allen to form a militia as well,
for the purpose of resisting Missouri. It is completely unclear
exactly how large either of these militias were. Estimates for
both are all over the map, from the hundreds to
the thousands. However, the general consensus is that Missouri's militia

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was bigger than Iowa's, and Iowa's wasn't really mustard until
this was all pretty much over. Both militias were also
pretty rag tag. The men were responsible for their own weapons,
which meant they were full of assorted odds and ends,
some of them dating all the way back to the
War of eighteen twelve. Some of the stranger weapons that
have been noted on the Iowa side of this conflict

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included a six ft long sword that was cut out
of a piece of metal, a dasher from a butter
churn that's the thing that you turn up and down
to make better, and a sausage stuffer. Even though tensions
had been high among the Iowan's actually living in the
disputed territory, most of the men in the militia weren't

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local to that little strip of land, and they didn't
really care. Most had joined up because it was winter
and they needed the money, which meant that morale was
poor and desertions were many. The Missouri militia, on the
other hand, was so poorly provisioned that at one point
it resorted to robbing a store to get food and blankets. Eventually,
Thomas A. Anderson of Missouri did what seems like the

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only sensible thing in this story so far. He advocated
for a Missouri Iowa Commission to be formed to work
this whole thing out. In his words, quote in the
name of God of mercy and justice. Gentlemen, let this
monumental piece of absurdity, this monumental but cruel blundering, have
an end. Someone. It's not entirely clear who, since both

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Missouri and Iowa claimed that it was them, drafted a
resolution on December twelfth, nine requesting that both governors step
away from this issue and for real hand it over
to the federal government. Basically, kids, stop fighting, give it
to mom and dad. At last, the two states agreed
to do so, which put an end to the need

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for militia on either side. While the Iowa militia didn't
particularly care about the conflict in play, the Missouri militia
was apparently angry that their opportunity to fight had been
taken away from them. They split aside of Venison into
two halves, named each one after one of the respective governors,
and shot them both to bits, and then both bilases

(18:05):
eventually disbanded and went home. I'm so angry that they
were so angry they shot up a deer carcass. Apparently
they buried it afterward with like a very like, very formal,
serious funeral, as you do after you've had a weird
Tantremy shootout with a deer carcass. After all this odd

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back and forth, the federal government finally did get involved,
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settled the issue where their border should be, Governor Boggs,
the same man who had refused to participate in the
Commission to resurvey the border, also refused to cooperate with
the federal government. Is pitted Iowa and Missouri against one
another in Congress for the next six years. There was
also more at stake in this boundary issue than just
b trees and hurt feelings. The Missouri boundary was moved north,

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the territory where slavery was allowed would also move north.
This would put Iolands, who thought they were living in
a free state instead in a slave state, and many
of them considered this idea to be absolutely abhorrent. In
the middle of all this, Iowa became an actual state
on December eighty six. Florida, a slave state, had been

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admitted to the Union in eighteen forty five, so that
once again maintained the fifty fifty slave state, free state split. Finally,
after Iowa had become a state, Congress suggested Iowa and
Missouri turn it over to the Supreme Court for a
definitive answer. The suit was brought before the Court in
eighteen forty seven, and, in the words of the Court quote,
a great mass of evidence was taken on both sides.

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This evidence included a number of smaller shifts and seated
land that we did not go into in this podcast.
If the whole court opinion exists on the internet, you
can read it uh and read how exasperated that it sounds.
Justice John Catron, speaking for the Court, delivered the court's
opinion on April six, eighteen forty nine. It said, among

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other things, quote, and this Court doth therefore see proper
to decree, and doth accordingly order a judge and decree
that the true and proper northern boundary line and of
the State of Missouri, and the true southern boundary of
the State of Iowa, is the line run and marked
in eighteen sixteen by John C. Sullivan as the Indian
boundary from the northwest corner made by said Sullivan, extending

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eastwardly as he ran and marked the said line to
the middle of the Des Moines River, and that a
line due west from said northwest corner to the middle
of the Missouri River is the proper dividing line between
said states west of the after said corner, And that
the states of Missouri and Iowa are bound to conform
their jurisdictions up to said line on their respective sides thereof,

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from the River des Moines to the River Missouri. In
other words, the court rule that the Sullivan line was
the right one, due in part to the many existing
treaties with the O s Age Nation that used that
line as a border, along with the Missouri State Constitution
and other official documents. So, I know, we've talked about
a lot of different lines here. So just to make
it totally clear that originally incorrect marked border made with

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compass readings that we're pointing to the magnetic north instead
of true north, like, that was the one that we
went And as as I look at this, I was thinking,
so the moral of the story is do a bad
job and that will be fine. Ah yeah. And also
if you if you were you kind of zoned out

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with all of the kind of weighty language. The court
at the end of that little statement we just read
also pretty clearly said that Missouri needed to knock it
off with its attempts to collect taxes and enforce law
north of the Sullivan line. Joseph C. Brown of missour
Urry and Henry B. Hendershot of Iowa were appointed to
work together to find the Sullivan line and market for real.

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This time, not with tiny sticks or mounds of dirt.
They used cast iron pillars four ft six inches tall,
marked with Iowa on one side and Missouri on the
other and state line down the sides. One was placed
every ten miles, and Missouri and Iowa split the cost
of this endeavors. So there's so much detail that is

(23:28):
in there about like having the state's names marked on
each side. It. I know, I know, I know. We
have lots of listeners in both of these states, and
I'm sure everyone is proud of their states. It is
still extremely funny, this whole situation, and it really reminds
me of when parents mark the line down, quarrel quarreling
children's bedrooms with tape. Yeah, that was a Happy Days
episode two, I think. And I am going to be

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totally candid here as I was, as I was looking for.
We're a topic for today's episode. I are nearly landed
on a similarly squabbly, back and forth kind of childish
uh incident from the history of my home state, which
is North Carolina. So this is everywhere. Yeah, we're not,

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you know, trying to rip on. I bet every state
has some equally absurd event in its history, quite a
lot of them. Uh. Sadly, to get back to this
resurveying and marking of the line with people's names on
or with the state's names on each side, Brown actually
died before this work was complete, so Robert W. Wells

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was appointed as his replacement. In there was yet another
resurvey of this boundary line running from mile post forty
to mile post sixty east. Granted, markers were at that
point placed every mile along this piece of the boundary,
apparently even though they used these cast iron pillars that
were four ft six inches tall apiece, which is well

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over a meter. Yeah. Um. With all of the weather
and erosion and the fact that a lot of this
is basically in river soil, uh, a lot of these
pillars are hard to find even today. They've been covered
up by shifting dirt and shifting silt and stuff like that.
So maybe we'll have another argument about whose boundary is where? Yea,

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except now we can use satellite imaging and all kinds
of new things to argue with well. And one of
one of the things that I read, uh I more accurately,
one of the things I skimmed as I was looking
into this was basically a Modern Surveyors article about having
like looked for this line using you know, g I
S systems and something like that. So that was pretty cool.

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Apparently this is a line that still interests people quite
a lot. Do you also have some listener mail for us? I?
Do I have a completely different answer to the question
of why is this Egyptian pharaoh's name is entered into
completely different ways from our Unearthed in twenty fift episodes. Um,
you may remember recently we read a listener mail from

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a non Egyptologist but egypt history enthusiast. Today we have
one from an egypt Egyptologistay was from Katherine, and Katherine says, Hi,
Holly and Tracy, I'm a little late in catching up
with your most recent episode, so you may have already
gotten an answer to this question. However, just in case
you haven't. In your Unearthed in part one episode, you
Ladies asked for a knowledgeable egyptologist to weigh in on

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a confusion over the spelling of Kent Kawe thirds husband
husband's name uh nefre fray or rd f Reth. While
I am no longer in act an act of egyptologist
and far from the most knowledgeable, I can tell you
that the wacky anagram switcher you noticed and the spelling
of the king's name is the result of honorific transposition,

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a unique feature of the hiero glyphic hieroglyphic language. In
honorific transposition, the glyphs within a word or sentence are
intentionally based out of phonetic slash grammatical order in order
to pay homage to the gods or kings whose names
are represented by the glyphs by putting those glyphs first.
That means that even though the phray phrase name is

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spelled with the solar disc ray lift coming first, it
may not necessarily be pronounced with that phonetic value first.
With intentional misordering has caused a lot of confusion in
modern translations. By convention, all pharaoh's names spell out words
or phrases, often devotional the different gods. Many Pharis names
contain the name of the god Ray or Raw spelled

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with the left first, but are pronounced with the ray
somewhere else in the word, and this is borne out
by the grammatical correctness of the phrasing of a particular
name in the Phray phrase name or in the Phray
phrase case, his name is an A B nominal sentence,
which essentially means that it can correctly spell out the
phrase his beauty is ray or Ray is his beauty

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ref This interchangeability means that is more ambiguous whether the
race should be moved to the end of his name
or not. This is probably the main reason by their
inconsistencies across different sources. For more detail or just some
additional examples, we can take a look at this quick
and dirty article I wrote for Cora and spelling to that,
which we will put in our show notes. Keep up
the great work on your excellent podcast, and let me

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know if you ever need any other Egyptology advising. And
then Catherine sends an actual image of the hieroglyphic spelling
of the spharaoh's name Um, which was meant to be
read from top to bottom. I am pretty certain that
because of the age of the Egyptian language and the
fact that it is so fundamentally different from English, there

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are probably multiple factors in play and why these names
are also confusing. Yes, and the Egyptian language evolved as well.
It wasn't like it stayed static and we could suss
it out, sort of like how English also has evolved,
but no way. Languages and live. When we first started
working on this podcast, and I had my very very

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list of uh of ideas talk about on the show. Um,
one of the things that I had down was like
the Great vowel Shift, which was basically the English language
tilting in the way that it pronounced vowels. Announced There's
a lot of weird stuff in the history of the
English language. And then I decided that was maybe a

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little too inside baseball for our history podcast. We've never
done it. Uh So, Yeah, thank you so much Catherine
for writing us that note. UM, if you would like
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on social media. That's probably the name that we have picked. Uh.
If you would like to learn more about something that
we talked a little bit about today but not as
much as I might have liked, you can go up
to our parent companies website, which is how stuff works

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dot com and put the word bees in the search bar.
You will find how bees Work. I'm very fond of bees,
and that was sad they did not actually have a
bigger presence in the Honey War. You can also come
to our website, which is missed in history dot com,
and you will find show notes for all the episodes
that Holly and I have done, an archive of every
episode we have ever done. We have handy other things

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on there, like all the myriad ways to contact us
in one handy page. You can do all that and
a whole lot more at how stuff works dot com
or missed in History dot com. For lare on this
and thousands of other topics because it has stuff works
dot com