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To: NormsRevenge
"John Zonaras wrote: "At last in an incredible manner he burned up the whole Roman fleet----by tilting a kind of mirror toward the sun he concentrated the sun's beam upon it..."

I used to watch kids doing this to ants with a magnifying glass. I don't think they were mathmeticians though.

10 posted on 10/22/2005 10:51:45 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" -Pope Urban II, 1097AD)
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To: TheCrusader
I used to watch kids doing this to ants with a magnifying glass.

I thought ALL boys did this.

11 posted on 10/22/2005 11:00:43 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Liberalism cannot survive in a free and open society.)
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