1 posted on
04/03/2008 5:16:39 PM PDT by
blam
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To: SunkenCiv
3 posted on
04/03/2008 5:20:02 PM PDT by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam
Truly weird. The implication is that it is better to have the taxpayer foot the bill than to have this item in private hands. I get the impression museum people see the public purse as their personal piggy bank.
To: blam
one of the classiest watches I ever saw was called an “astrolabe.”
To: blam
And it runs Yellow Dog Linux!
13 posted on
04/03/2008 5:37:57 PM PDT by
Petronski
(Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
To: Old Sarge
16 posted on
04/03/2008 5:51:12 PM PDT by
MS.BEHAVIN
(Women who behave rarely make history)
To: blam
19 posted on
04/03/2008 6:58:12 PM PDT by
fishtank
(Fenced BORDERS, English LANGUAGE, Patriotic CULTURE: A good plan.)
To: blam
There was a show on the "History Channel" about the antikythera mechanism found off that Island maybe 100 years ago. It dated to roughly 150 BC and probably originated on the Island of Rhodes.
The mechanism was incredibly complex and accurate. Also beautifully made with many wheels and gears and thousands of inscriptions in a small device you could carry in your hands. Whoever made that was definitely smarter than the average bear.
20 posted on
04/03/2008 7:01:32 PM PDT by
yarddog
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22 posted on
04/03/2008 10:04:59 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: blam
The Astrolabist’s Tale was so bawdy that Chaucer’s publisher ordered it to be stricken from the first edition.
24 posted on
04/04/2008 6:16:18 AM PDT by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
To: blam
"The existence of this simple, practical device sheds new light on Chaucer’s treatise: it supports the idea that Chaucer’s work was a piece of popular science writing, understandable to more than just the elite. “It suggests that this kind of knowledge wasn’t too arcane or academic,” says Bennett." *****BREAKING NEWS FLASH*****
**People Born Hundreds of Years Ago Not Necessarily Morons**
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming....
25 posted on
04/04/2008 7:05:13 AM PDT by
Eepsy
(The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
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