Naut's Tidbits & Snippets for Tuesday, April 15, 2008

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Being Gored by the Horns of a Recycling Dilemma...

But enough is enough: in 1821 Turkish soldiers surrounded the Greek forces holed up in the Parthenon and started stripping lead from temple columns to make bullets. The horrified Greek promptly sent the enemy a fresh supply of ammunition to discourage further recycling. (J. Rice and A. Fields,... Sign in to see full entry.

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