[blam]

GGG Ping.

That's just great. We can do DNA analysis on the horses but the Chinese Government won't let anyone do DNA analysis on the Caucasian mummies found there. (Some things they just don't want to know?)

[Brig_Gen_George_P_Harrison_CSA]

Genetics can certainly be political.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Chinese word for "horse" is ma. I read somewhere that it's thought to be an Indo-European word, cognate with the English word "mare." That may indicate that the Chinese first got horses from Indo-European speakers.

The horse character is also the first of three characters used to spell Karl Marx's name (Ma-ke-si). That makes sense: Marxists are horse's asses.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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