Posted on 11/29/2007 2:53:57 PM PST by blam
Yeah. “Everything’s big in Texas...”
Glad your boy made a good recovery. That must have been heartwrenching for your family.
Robert A. Heinlein mentioned in one of his survival-based fiction stories on the importantance of recognizing Tularemia in any rabbits you killed. (Not that you were hunting rabbits that day.) He was talking about how back-to-nature survival wasn't as easy as us modern-day city folk imagined it to be.
Thank you very much. All is well. Well, I guess the 50k left uncovered kinda sucks, but, it was unfortunately timed with the short (6 week) period during which I was on [relatively crappy] health insurance via a consulting agency. Small price to pay, really.
Have to say, though, that as nasty and rare as it was, the one thing we (as a family) got out of the experience was realizing just how lucky we were to have something at least treatable. My son met more than one kid at that childrens' hospital that will probably never go home.
Robert A. Heinlein mentioned in one of his survival-based fiction stories on the importantance of recognizing Tularemia in any rabbits you killed. (Not that you were hunting rabbits that day.) He was talking about how back-to-nature survival wasn't as easy as us modern-day city folk imagined it to be.
Heh...yeah...in talking about the malady with friends and family, none had ever heard of it.
Lo and behold, while engaging on some "team speak" with fellow players of an online game I enjoy, I mentioned it. One dude knew it right off - and actually told me quite a bit about it that I didn't know. Turns out he is a survival enthusiast/instructor. I'd wager he read the books to which you referred. Fascinating dude.
I thought this was about the St. Louis Rams
I’m not sold on this biowarfare article, looks like anachronistic political pandering. I’d previously read a claim that bubonic-infected rats were tossed over the wall using catapaults during some siege in ancient times, but A) AFAIK there’s no ancient descriptions of a bubonic plague outbreak, and B) while there’s no reason to doubt the observational capacity of earlier human societies, infections and disease were (according to documentation) attributed to demons and deities.
:’) In this case, the storm god? :’D
http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-35872/Arnuwandas-III
A selection of articles discussing this topic.
conquest of Arzawa
...During the reign of the Hittite king Arnuwandas III (1220–1190 BC), Arzawa was seized by a disloyal Hittite vassal, Madduwattas; it was never recaptured by the Hittites and gradually lost its political identity.
succession of Mursilis II
Son of the great Hittite conqueror Suppiluliumas, Mursilis succeeded his father after the brief reign of his older brother Arnuwandas III. Mursilis renewed the allegiance of North Syria, particularly Carchemish (controlled by his brother Shar-Kushukh) and the kingdom of Amurru; he also conducted a successful campaign against the western kingdom of Arzawa, one of the main threats to the Hittite...
history of Hittite kingdom
Little is known about Arnuwandas III and Suppiluliumas II, who succeeded Tudhaliyas, and these final episodes in the saga of Hittite history are difficult to reconstruct. To the latter reign can be dated a maritime expedition, perhaps involving Cyprus, and the earliest Hieroglyphic Hittite inscriptions of any length. The Phrygian invasion of Asia Minor must already...
Only thing I remember about hunting rabbits was my dad would inspect the liver - very closely.
If it looked funky in any way, I got the job of burying it - not even the dogs could have it.
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