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Werewolves of China
During the Boxer Rebellion riots in China against the European and American colonies, the trapped American soldiers melted down silver plate, and even coins, to make bullets. :)
posted by
Halfelven
on April 16, 2008 at 12:14 PM
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awwww...now that's something along the lines of 'sweet charity' right?
Elyse (loving your blog Naut)
posted by
elysianfields
on April 15, 2008 at 10:35 PM
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Nautikos
Well the Greeks do things backasswards anyways right
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 15, 2008 at 9:23 PM
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...and here we Americans just took the kids toy soldiers away from them and melted them down whether the kids volunteered them or not.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 15, 2008 at 9:04 PM
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Yeah,
heh, heh
posted by
KaBooM62
on April 15, 2008 at 5:38 PM
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nautikos
Cool bit of information!!
posted by
Tattered_Knight
on April 15, 2008 at 3:56 PM
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Naut
I just love how you come up with these obscure tidbits.....
posted by
Troosha
on April 15, 2008 at 2:47 PM
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That is insane! sam
posted by
sam444
on April 15, 2008 at 1:49 PM
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hahaha...that is sooo effed up ! heeheeheeheee !
posted by
hazel_st_cricket
on April 15, 2008 at 11:39 AM
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Strange ways are adopted sometime !
posted by
afzal50
on April 15, 2008 at 11:21 AM
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Talk about conflicting interests!
Tough call to have to make.
posted by
metalrat
on April 15, 2008 at 9:11 AM
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Greece and Turkey, loving enemies from what I can see. It's great
to complain and weep about all the terrible things your neighbor does to you. Yet if one suffers from a terrible earth quake as has happenend to both in recent years, the other is there to help in an instant. Then they go back to threatening to drop a bomb on each other.
posted by
Kabu
on April 15, 2008 at 8:17 AM
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Re: Your story about lead made me flash on one of Mom's old sayings:
LOL, Pat. Of course, the problem with that theory is that Lead results from the decay of
Uranium! As far as we know, the atomic nucleus of Iron doesn't decay at all, it's extremely stable, created in intra-stellar fusion together with other heavy elements and then blasted into space in supernovae...
posted by
Nautikos
on April 15, 2008 at 7:34 AM
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Your story about lead made me flash on one of Mom's old sayings:
Laziness is when the iron in your blood turns to lead and settles to the bottom.
posted by
Pat_B
on April 15, 2008 at 6:44 AM
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