Hee hee! That's funny!
That may be what they teach in school, but that's because the establishment does not want kiddies in elementary school (sadly, even colleges) to know that their historic heroes were simple humans, alcoholoics, druggies, victims of abuse, murderers, duellists, infected with gonhorrea, etc. I mean, most folks would like to think that the "Crusades" were noble of purpose, or that Cortes was really wanting to be buddies with the folks of S and Central America, and wasn't out to take their gold and land, or that the "Unification and Reformation" of Europe was a nice, clean transition it Xtianity (and that it wasn't just a way to consolidate the powers of the crown and church fer money and kill lotsa dissenters), or we ignore whow the Catholic church turned a blind eye to the plight of the Jews in Nazi germany, or how disease was used INTENTIONALLY to wipe out whole cultures, tribes, and populations to make way for colonization...does anyone think that God actually wanted the Inquisition? Wanted his folks to kill and torture in his name? (Passion of Christ, my arse! How come the folks with the most peaceful gods are warlike, and the ones with war gods more peacful?)
How we turn some into hereoes and others into villains on the historic stage is really a matter of 'spin.' It is the 'why' that becomes insidious.
Let's take history's fave villains of the 20th c., the Nazis. Now, we all beat them, but then we take all their technlology (yes, including the biotech info on cloning and all sorts of other data gathered during hideous human testing, rocket tech, , chem weapons like sarin, guided ballistic missile tech, etc) and use it as our own. So in essence the tech of the bad guys is the foundations for the latter 20th c tech we have, and we wouldn;t have jets or rockets without them. We took the very data they gathered from bio experiments on jews, and kinda looked the other way, like it was some 'necessary evil' but our hands are clean right?
Food fer thought, like it or not. History, as it is written, is nothing more than an agreed upon set of lies. Ever read a Brit history book on the Rev War? A Mexican history book on the colonization attempts of slave-owning 'americans' in Mexcan territory? (The Mexicans did not allow the enslavement of folks at the time of the 'winning' of Texas, and were basically fighting for freedom--go Santa Anna!).
One cannot read one book on a subject and know the subject, you just know the subjectivity of the writers or agenda setters at the time it was written. Not 20 years ago, Russians were 'the enemy,' evil folk to be punched out by Rocky Balboa or shot from the sky by a teenager in "Iron Eagle." What has changed? Only the SPIN, my friend...
Keith
The knife also has a visible temper line which shows that the edge has been hardened back for about an inch. I will try to get that on a photo this weekend.
