Posted on 02/20/2005 9:05:44 AM PST by snippy_about_it
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Slings and arrows of outrageous fortune bump for the Freeper Foxhole on a warm Sunday here in KC
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I remember reading how Indian arrowheads were commonly made out of metal utensils(pots. pans, cups etc.) traded for with the whites.
As far as killing power, a story exists of one plains Indian killing three buffalo with one arrow... claiming the third with the arrow protruding from the second!
On a hot, dry day, a strong bowman could easily drive one clear through an enemy. The 'gut' held it's strength better when dry.
My sister from the East Coast went back today. My brother from Texas is still here today and tommorow. Things are slowly but surely returning back to normal.
Broken Arrow
Indian Agent Captain Tom Jeffords (John Lupton) has the job of maintaining favorable relations with the Chiricahua Apache in the Tuscon Arizona area in the 1870s. This period is during the Indian Wars.
So Jeffords forges a friendship with Cochise (Michael Ansara) of the Apache and peace, as symbolized by a broken arrow, is established. Together Jefford and Cochise fight those who violate the peace, regardless of their race.
The good news is that the Indian was treated more favorably in this Western. He wasn't reduced to being an ignorant savage. And Broken Arrow presented the Indian view of white encroachment.
However, historians would note that the real Cochise wasn't such a touchy feely kind of guy.
Also, Michael Ansara was grossly underused. He has more talent than the scripts allowed him to show.
Hi Feather
Morning Aeronaut
Gall a Hunkpapa Sioux, holding bow and arrow, Fort Buford, North Dakota.
Photographed by David F. Barry, 1881.
From the few times I've used a bow, I have to believe it took a lot of skill to use effectively
Morning E.G.C.
Nice sunny day so far. :-)
Hi Sam.
Interesting read. What an education on arrowhead wounds. Especially the graphic descriptions of pulsating aneurysms, tumors, incisions, hemorrhages, victims body fluids, splitting muscles, dilating wounds and evacuating chest wounds. Damn! I'm hungry . . . what's for lunch?
Your post, however, overlooked the Karankawas who continually attacked the Austin colonies along the Colorado river. They were known to launch nearly a hundred arrows within a matter of seconds. And the size of their arrows gave birth to the expression, "everything is bigger in Texas." Here we see a historical landmark where these arrows were left in the ground.
by Sgt. 1st Class Kevin Aker
December 7, 2004
A fall snowstorm at Fort Drum, N.Y., does not cancel Staff Sgt. Juan Apontes alfresco reenlistment ceremony in front of the 10th Mountain Division monument. Aponte, an intelligence analyst, will transfer from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment to a much warmer clime: MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. Apontes company commander, Capt. Toby Moore, reenlists him. This photo appeared on www.army.mil
LOL!
Afternoon PE.
The Army never moves anything that can be ruined by the weather, in-doors.
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on February 20:
1494 Johan Friis chancellor (Denmark, helped establish Lutheranism)
1507 Gentile Bellini Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)
1632 Thomas Osborne Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)
1784 Adam Black Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher
1790 Joseph II Emperor of the Holy Roman empire, dies
1805 Angelina Grimke reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer
1809 Henry Walton Wessells Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1820 Mahlon Dickerson Manson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1827 Edward Stuyvesant Bragg Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
1838 James Barbour Terrill Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1844 Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics)
1870 Pieter Cornelis Boutens Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)
1886 Béla Kun Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
1893 Russel Crouse journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
1898 Enzo Ferrari Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari)
1899 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Long Island NY, railroad tycoon
1901 Ali Muhammad Naguib Khartoum, President of Egypt (1952-54)
1902 Ansel Adams photographer (1966 ASMP Award)
1904 Aleksei N Kosygin Soviet premier (1964-80)
1907 Nadine Conner California, soprano (Carmen, Pamina-Magic Flute)
1910 Millicent Fenwick (Representative-R-NJ 1975-82)
1911 Robert Guyn McBride Tucson AZ, composer (Mexican Rhapsody)
1914 John Daly South Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line)
1917 Frederick Page CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group)
1921 Joseph Albert Walker Washington DC, test pilot (X-15)
1924 Gloria Vanderbilt don't my jeans look great, poor little rich girl
1925 Robert Altman Kansas City MO, director (Nashville, MASH)
1926 Kenneth H Olsen US, engineer/founder (Digital Equipment Corp)
1927 Sidney Poitier Miami FL, actor (Porgy & Bess, A Raisin in the Sun, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner)
1927 Roy Cohn lawyer, "grand inquisitor" (for Senator Joseph McCarthy)
1929 Amanda Blake [Beverly Louise Neill], Buffalo NY, actress (Kitty Russell-Gunsmoke)
1934 Bobby Unser auto racer (1968, 75, 81 Indianapolis 500)
1936 Larry Hovis Wapito WA, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes)
1937 Nancy Wilson Chillicothe OH, jazz singer (Feel Like Making Love)
1937 Robert Huber München, Germany, biochemist (Nobel 1988)
1941 Buffy Sainte-Marie Maine, folksinger
1942 Phil Esposito NHL player/coach/GM (Bruins, Rangers)
1943 Aleksandr Pavlovich Alexandrov Russian, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-9, TM-3)
1943 Antonio Inoki [Kanji Rikidozan], wrestler (NJPW/JWA)
1946 Sandy Duncan Henderson TX, actress (Hogan Family, Pinocchio, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?)
1946 J[erome] Geils New York NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (J Geils Band-Freeze-Frame, Centerfold)
1947 Peter Strauss Croton-on-Hudson NY, actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Secret of NIMH, Space Hunter)
1949 Ivana Trump Gottwaldov Czechoslovakia, ex-wife of Donald Trump (1st Wives Club)
1950 John Voldstad Oslo Norway, actor (Darryl-Newhart)
1954 Patty Hearst Shaw San Francisco CA, famous kidnap hostage (Tanya)
1954 Vasili Vasilyevich Tsibliyev Russian colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17, TM-25)
1955 Kelsey Grammer St Thomas Virgin Islands, actor (Fraiser Crane-Cheers/Fraiser)
1959 Joel Rifkind New York serial killer
1963 Charles Barkley Leads AL, NBA forward (Houston Rockets, Phoenix Suns, Philadelphia 76ers, Olympics-gold-96, All Star 1987-90)
1964 French Stewart New Mexico, actor (Harry Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)
1966 Cindy Crawford Dekalb IL, super model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)
1977 Veronica Ledesma Miss Argentina-Universe (1996)
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