Posted on 07/14/2002 1:19:44 PM PDT by blam
The cat's outa the bag now!
One of the places we stayed in NZ was a farmstay run by a lovely couple named Ra and Leon. Ra was of Maori ancestry, Leon of English ancestry. Leon said that when he and Ra were dating, she would make jokes about her ancestors eating his ancestors.
"My #2 dog is named Ra. (#1 is named 'Tutt' and #3 is 'Nefertiti"
Have you been to neferchichi.com?(Egyptian madlibs!)
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After 20 years??
Where’s his ‘chute?
No.
I’m just gonna let this softball land in the grass.
Nah. Nothing new that I know of.
I have two pick-up trucks. One new and one old. I drive the old one every day, it's 29 years old this month, 257,000 miles.
I won't be here another 20 years.
This topic was posted , thanks again blam. Hey, it's not quite 20 years ago...
Thanks .
I wonder if how those manhours could have been better spent.
“I’ve never heard anybody say that the Vikings had a compass before.”
There is some evidence that Vikings were using lodestones as far back as 1,000 BC.
SC undoubtedly knows more on the subject than I do.
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That rings a bell, the deviation between magnetic north and geographic north was discovered (not surprisingly, eh?) by navigators, and the Vikings would have been going far enough west to figure it out.
There’s been some discussion as well that the Vikings used, hmm, amber?, to locate the solar position in heavy weather.
Ah, here it is, calcite and a couple other minerals, the magnetic compass apparently goes back to the 13th c is all.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/sunstones/index
I am surprised that is the extent of it. I would have been a giant in those times and simply missed being worshipped as a deity by only 3,000 years.
Ohhh, the possibilities.
I'm convinced being here contributed to me staying sane.
My wife says being here made me nuts!
(AHEM) I don't have a wife.
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