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I’m just glad that we’ve pretty much outgrown the practice of killing each other over differences in religious beliefs...well, at least those Religions that are modern and civilized that is.
Wow, cool!
Coincidence?
I think not!
They must have eaten the brown acid.
Wow. The Swedes used to fight?
Death tolls in old wars usually are less than in more recent ones, if only because it is easier to kill a lot more people with one weapon today. Though this is changing in some conflicts (not even wars) such as the ones in Iraq and Afghanistan (though it could be considered a war on the Iraqi/islamofascist side—they’re losing a lot of people, though not in the hundreds of thousands).
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Well, now that the United State of Europe is firmly established, hopefully this battle won’t happen at all.
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Unrelated to this topic, but you might be interested:
http://www.physorg.com/news104901547.html
3,000-year-old mask found in Aleutians
A whalebone mask discovered at an Alaskan archaeological site was probably broken during an Aleut funeral 3,000 years ago, scientists said.
Mike Yarborough, who heads the dig on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian chain, told The Anchorage Daily News the mask is about 2,000 years older than any other to have been found. Only the upper half of the mask was found and it had old cracks in it.
Archaeologists began working on the hillside because a new bridge is to be built there, replacing an old wooden-decked one. The dig, originally scheduled to last only a month, has been extended because the site has proved to be much richer than anyone expected.
The village was inhabited at a time when the climate in the Aleutians was much colder and the islands were surrounded by ice year-round. The inhabitants lived in stone houses with under-floor air spaces for heating.
The mask resembles a 1,000-year-old one found on the Alaskan peninsula. Denise Rankin, vice president of the tribal corporation on Unalaska, said the eyes and other features are also familiar to her.
“They look just like an Aleut face,” she said.
400-year-old Scots ready to reveal their battle secretsThey died in the Battle of Wittstock on 4 October, 1636, when a Protestant army of 16,000 Swedes beat a force of 22,000 from the Catholic alliance of the Holy Roman Empire and Saxony. Some 6,000 men died in the fighting. Soldiers from several nations fought at Wittstock, including hundreds from Scotland, the German states and Swedes. Sweden was then a magnet for Scottish noblemen, who became civil servants and formed the backbone of the army's officer corps. James King, born on Warbester Hoy in the Orkney Islands, commanded the entire left wing of the Swedish army at the battle... Most of the corpses were stripped before being buried and the only evidence of their undergarments remains in the form of metal hooks and loops, she said. "Everything that was usable in any way was taken off them - shoes, weapons, upper clothing." The archaeologists are hopeful that coins and other small personal effects may be found in the soil... Some 40,000 individuals took part in the battle and experts reckon the remains of 7,000 are scattered around. In the long term, DNA analysis may be carried out on some remains.
Allan Hall in Berlin
Scotsman