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20 Arkansas homes evacuated because of Civil War landmine
msn.com ^
| April 1, 2016
| AP
Posted on 04/01/2016 7:22:11 PM PDT by Morgana
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:22:11 PM PDT
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Morgana
To: Morgana
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:23:17 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking, but I know what I'm thinking.)
To: Morgana
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:23:50 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:24:04 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
To: Morgana
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:26:00 PM PDT
by
manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: Morgana
The South will rise again.
To: Morgana
the U.S. Air Force Bomb Squad was looking for a place to explode the ordinance.
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:27:24 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
To: KarlInOhio
What are the odds it would go off after all these years?
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:28:13 PM PDT
by
Morgana
( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: Morgana
Good thing to know.
I’ll be extra careful the next time I bring A CANNON BALL HOME!
The stupid.
IT’S SPREADING.
Jedi.
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:29:10 PM PDT
by
JEDI4S
( JOIN THE GREAT DELEGATE HUNT! B-1 BOB....WE MISS YOU!)
To: Morgana
“What are the odds it would go off after all these years?”
That all dep-—
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:30:51 PM PDT
by
WhiskeyX
To: Squantos
One lucky redneck right there.
L
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:31:32 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Morgana
My cousin gave me an old powder horn from the early 1800s years ago. It was in bad shape, but what the heck, I took it. I got to digging around in it with a stick and the dam thing had some powder in it. So I got all the powder out and thought I wanted to see if it would still burn. It did, and dam good too. WOW. I burned a good portion of my hair off my arm.
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:36:25 PM PDT
by
crz
To: Morgana
They used to call them torpedos back then. Why? I dunno.
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:38:12 PM PDT
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crz
To: Morgana
Fair. A man was killed some years back by a cannon shell that was live and over 150 years old.
To: Morgana
When will this country be healed of this conflict?
To: Morgana
Did it have a Confederate Flag painted on it?
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:45:12 PM PDT
by
bunkerhill7
((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
To: Morgana
Amazing that it could be viable after 150 years. One might imagine that there are live munitions still from World War I and World War II somewhere out there, waiting to be discovered (one way or another).
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:51:49 PM PDT
by
Lee Enfield
(I identify as rich, cut me a check.)
To: Lurker
No “i” in ordnance ..... has to be inert ....< / sarcasm>
Lots of Civil War era cannonballs still lurk out there .... render safe is / was usually just counter charge em with a quarter pound of C4 and blow em in place (BIP)....
Old blackpowder is nothing to dink around with. Gets, wet, dry, wet etc and is unstable as hell over time. Not as bad as old dynamite but same level of instability .
Stay Safe !
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:53:41 PM PDT
by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: WorkingClassFilth
I live just outside the city limits south of Murfreesboro, Back many years ago I've met two old folks in the area that when they were very young would go out and clear cannon balls from their relatives fields. One of the old men said they had a pile of old cannon balls about 4 foot high. The cannon balls as well as the rocks would break the plows, so there was an attempt to find them and remove them.
Another old man claimed once in a while they would find an un-exploded one, and he said they had a special place in a pile of rocks for them in a fence row for them.
My gut feeling is the confederates had camps south of town at one point because of a spring fed creek and used the farm land for cannon shooting practice being their was no know fighting on the land as far as I know off.
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posted on
04/01/2016 8:01:48 PM PDT
by
ReformedBeckite
(1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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