Saudi Refuses $4 Million for Sacred Stone

Emirates 24/7 ^ | Sunday, November 11, 2012

[Fightin Whitey]

Clearly the carving is an image of Hillary in a superman cape, created to commemorate her heroic salvation of the glorious nations of the Middle East.

Only a coincidence that it looks like a dogturd with a really fat worm in it.

[Celtic Conservative]

thank you, my ADD enhanced (yes, enhanced) brain holds onto virtually everything it is exposed to. It makes for a weird, arcane and often amusing ability to recall knowledge. I am honored by your respect. the dagger intrigues Me as My house is inhabited by various and sundry bits of military cutlery and collectibles( the latest is a vietnam era helicopter pilots helmet). BTW the celtic stuff around the house isn't "weird", it's "diverse and thought compelling" (at least to me)

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[RetiredTexasVet]

Got to get some Chinese to crank out a few million of these ... sounds like the ME market for fake relics is ripe for the picking. Besides Chinese chicken scratching is indistinguishable from Arabic chicken scratching so any mistakes would be easily missed even by experts.

[Salamander]

Obviously your friends and acquaintances are nore tolernat than mine are.

As far as they’re concerned, my whole house is “weird”.

From sword/dagger collections to ‘scary’ dogs to Boas..it’s all incomprehensible to them.

I prefer to think of myself as ‘eclectic’.

;D

I wish you could’ve seen my mom’s face when she saw the hand carved Celtic mahogany “Hooded One” votive I have on my book shelf.

I made that myself and I like it.

Funny you’d mention the helmet...a guy we used to ride with was a former VN chopper pilot and he wore his flight helmet on his Harley.

Trippy.

:)

[buffaloguy]

That is a sling projectile. There are tens of thousands of the them in that area. Four million for one them is like paying 25 thousand for a black velvet painting of a tiger.

[trebb]

weighs 131 gm, exactly the same number of words in the Koran verse that mentioned the stone..

How long has "gm" been a valid unit of measure? If it is an abbreviation for "gram" it doesn't add up: Originally defined as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of a metre, and at the temperature of melting ice"[2] (later 4 °C), a gram is now defined as one one-thousandth of the SI base unit, the kilogram, or 1×10−3 kg, which itself is defined as being equal to the mass of a physical prototype preserved by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. It was the base unit of mass in the original French metric system and the later centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system of units. The word originates from Late Latin gramma – a small weight.

If not short for "gram" what weight unit is it?

[Graybeard58]

Thanks for the links, I’ve bookmarked them for later reading. There’s a lot there and very interesting.