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Doctors prove that the Iceman was shot to death in the Alps [ Oetzi ]
Earth Times ^ | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 | DPA

Posted on 01/28/2009 7:00:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: the invisib1e hand
no offense, but does this matter?

Maybe, maybe not. But no offense, is it interesting to people who might be interested? Maybe you aren't interested, so it wouldn't matter, as you say. Just a little intrigue from the past. A little relief from bailouts and Obamalosiplugs.

41 posted on 01/28/2009 7:56:44 PM PST by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Hell, yeah, it matters. Besides, it’s interesting. Evne if it didn’t matter, knowledge is good for its own sake.


42 posted on 01/28/2009 7:59:30 PM PST by chesley (A pox on both their houses. I've voted for my last RINO.)
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To: chesley; ForGod'sSake
knowledge

I gained some important knowledge tonight. A flint spear might kill you, but a picture can scar you for life.

43 posted on 01/28/2009 8:07:38 PM PST by bigheadfred (Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives!!!)
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To: Frantzie
What is pretty interesting is our 2nd Amnedment came from those parts. The Framers modeled it after Switzerland - see William Tell etc.

Well, not exactly. For fairly obvious reasons is was more closely modeled after the English Bill of Rights of 1689, which guaranteed the right of Protestants (only) to keep and bear arms. The US version just expanded it to cover all citizens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Bill_of_Rights

44 posted on 01/28/2009 8:35:22 PM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: ForGod'sSake
Grieving widow???

Greiving (spinster) great aunt.
The crazy one who lives in the cave on the other side of the mountain.

45 posted on 01/28/2009 8:38:24 PM PST by uglybiker (1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d 2 g3t l41d)
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To: the invisib1e hand

It matters if one is interested.


46 posted on 01/28/2009 8:44:07 PM PST by cydcharisse
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To: Ditto
Time to ban flint-tipped arrows.

When it's a crime to have flint-tipped arrows, only criminals will have flint-tipped arrows...

47 posted on 01/28/2009 8:55:36 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: whodathunkit; the invisib1e hand

That’s right!

So remember to keep your head on a swivel when hiking in the Alps in leather pants and moccasins.


48 posted on 01/28/2009 9:32:25 PM PST by BenLurkin (Mornie` utulie`. Mornie` alantie`.)
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To: Ditto
Even though they are ancient, they were once living, breathing, intelligent humans and one of God's special creations. Their remains deserve to be treated with the kind of dignity we would accord to the recently departed and not as some curiosity or tourist attraction.

We went to the museum last month and saw him, and yeah, I would have to probably agree. The one interesting thing, I guess is how his body was preserved, but I guess a picture could do that. The clothes and everything were interesting, but it just feels kind-of morbid. I do feel the same when I see mummies, too.

49 posted on 01/28/2009 10:10:02 PM PST by conservative cat ("So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.")
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To: SunkenCiv

thank you SunkenCiv! my husband and i have been following the tale of Oetzi since they discovered him. it’s almost like he’s an old friend. lol very old friend. :-|


50 posted on 01/28/2009 10:12:43 PM PST by ferri (Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. - Philip K. Dick)
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To: ForGod'sSake
Grieving widow???

So you're saying it was suicide?

51 posted on 01/29/2009 12:07:42 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (This fiasco brought to you by the failed Obama administration.)
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To: Ecliptic

You’re smacking the wrong poster upside the head

Not that it matters


52 posted on 01/29/2009 4:02:49 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanx for the update.More anwsers to the mystery.”He only lived a short time after the arrow impact.”Add the gash to the hand + headwound...probably spent his last few hours of life in a great deal of pain.Recall from anthropology class the average lifespan back then(according to instructor and textbook)was mid-twenties to early thirties.Apparently this man had lived a(comparatively)long life.


53 posted on 01/29/2009 4:10:24 AM PST by Thombo2
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To: Reeses

My thinking as well:”The leftist idea that war can now be stamped(out)is a dangerous fantasy.”.Libtards will never figure that out.”War is as ancient as mankind.”Humans(imo)are inherantly competitive and agressive.I think of it as the “flip side” of humanity.Not very pretty but a fact of life that liberals fail to grasp.


54 posted on 01/29/2009 4:33:51 AM PST by Thombo2
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To: whodathunkit

I suppose the lesson learned is never go raiding for pretty women over the alps into someone else’s territory. They have bows and arrows too and will kill you.

I will take that lesson to heart and will not be doomed to repeat it.


55 posted on 01/29/2009 8:39:35 AM PST by wildbill
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To: STONEWALLS

Has anyone ever told Eugene O’Neill? I think he’s still waiting at the far end of the pass for the Iceman to show up.


56 posted on 01/29/2009 11:52:23 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: lacrew
But doesn’t that mean it was fairly warm 5,000 years ago, compared to today’s temperatures.

That would seem fairly obvious to all but the global warming alarmists.

57 posted on 01/29/2009 12:06:31 PM PST by colorado tanker ("I just LOVE clinging to my guns and my religion!!!!" - Sarah Palin)
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To: SunkenCiv
possibly a stone from a slingshot

Not a slingshot, but a sling. Like the one that David used on Goliath. I have made several slings recently for my boys and me and we have had lots of fun. You can sling big stones a long way.

58 posted on 01/29/2009 12:15:35 PM PST by Drawsing (The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
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To: the invisib1e hand; SunkenCiv
no offense, but does this matter?

This could be all our situation when the hordes of barbarians want to invade our private domains. Feel secure in your own home now?

59 posted on 01/29/2009 2:45:07 PM PST by Ciexyz (Go Steelers!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Oetzi, who is now on display in the South Tyrol Archaeology Museum in Bolzano, died at age 46

Must of had his birth certificate on him.

60 posted on 01/29/2009 2:53:37 PM PST by Focault's Pendulum (I'm selling my tagline on Ebay Buy it Now! $1.95...S&H $14.95...only 3 left.)
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