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OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE - NOT THE

*GIL*HIBBEN*FANTASY*SHOVEL*.

MAJOR MEDICATION TIME!

Oh yes, previous longest lived topic had 68 posts. Between thread one and two we are at 142 posts, over double the previous record.
 
Rusty,

Be thankful that it isn't the ....

drum roll please...

Gil Hibben Super Fantasy Deluxe Khukuri

That's where I'd start drawing my khukuri...

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Harry

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silence may be the best policy on the thought that occurred to me...

But keep the thread going !!!

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"Now every time I read the paper the same old feeling comes on; we're waist deep in the Big Muddy, and the Big Fool says to push on!"
 
Mohd: I was just rereading your post on the previous page dated Jan 18, 2000.I must have been more dense that day than usual.

You were saying that the same thing happenned with the Southern Filipino tribes - as having the same religion as the Morrocans ( Moors ) they got called Moro- as Native Americans getting called Indians cause the dumb schmuck thought he'd found the fabled East ( India ).

He was only halfway around around the world from where he thought he was!!!! And they taught me about Columbus in school with a straight face - ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
 
Rusty, what did they teach about Columbus, the first or the last guy who found America?

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When I was in grade school they always told us that it was Columbus that first found america. I've always been into exploring so I did some research on it in 6th grade. Then I found out about all of the other people who "found" america first. When I asked my teacher about it he said the reason that Columbus is celebrated above the others is because he was the one who started the rest of the europian countries sending colonists and explorers over. What a load if I ever heard one! True in some respects, but not what should be taught in schools.

- D
 
With the exception that today more info on even earlier Vikings and Irish is available, what VHB describes is about what got taught in the 60's.
 
Were there not some folks who walked across a land bridge when it was there from Asia to North America several thousand years ago?

I think this the the basis for HH saying that American Indians and Tibetans were truly blood brothers.

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On the topic of invasion if anyone has tought about reading "GUNS,GERMS AND STEEL" I can summerize real quick. The europeans took ove rthe world because they could, and they are bad people for doing it. I always wonder what would the world be today if the europeans had not had the technology that they did...
 
And when they walked across the land bridge they probably got to the other side to be informed by those already there that they owed a toll, so pay up.
 
BTW, what is the difference between the hatchet, tomahawk, and spontoon? design, purpose, use, symbolism, culture, spiritual, and on and on? Don't forget the Vietnam tomahawk, and whether it wound be good for home defense.
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Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And gave her mother 40 whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father 41.
 
The spontoon is a two-handed fighting spear once used in European armies.

The English word tomahawk comes from Virginia Algonquian "Tamahaac". English settlers later applied the word to a wide variety of Native weapons. Some of the tomahawks with metal blades were originally made in France or England and sold or bartered to the Native people as trade items. The metal-bladed hawk was also a favorite weapon with European settlers (Settlers also practiced scalping, at one point rewards were offered for "Indian" scalps). Some blades were hatchets for chopping, but others were more dagger-like stabbing blades mounted to the haft perpendicularly. I have heard that the short one-handed axe was a more common hand-to-hand weapon for soldiers in the American Revolution than swords or knives were. There were old fighting methods developed in the United States for using the short hatchet or hawk, by itself or accompanied by a dirk or dagger in the off hand.
 
OK, the ones with the peaked double spear point like head mounted perpendicularly to the shaft are the ones I've heard of called spontoons.

Algonquin, huh?
 
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