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Boy discovers 3000-year-old bronze sword in China
Times of India ^
| Sep 6, 2014, 06.33 PM IST
Posted on 09/06/2014 8:39:58 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
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To: knarf
that was my response - right.
and it got better when he “considered his options”.
lol propoganda.
To: InterceptPoint
I can’t tell if the pommel is round, or more flat, but with that full length fuller and lack of much taper that’s almost a Viking sword shape.
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:26:41 AM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: Smokin' Joe
If the pommel is round, it would be very much like a gladius.
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:38:12 AM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: Smokin' Joe
Did someone throw a civil servant in the river?? It's theme throughout history.. in a river, out a window, from a lamp-post... whatever. It has a long an honorable tradition, and I'm for it whenever I get a chance. ;)
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:41:52 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Wait for winter and use ‘em for wind chimes...
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:43:19 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: matthew fuller
"That's about 10.24 inches long. Must have been some kind of midgets back then. ( Maybe Chinese centimeters are different.)"
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Maybe a child's 'sword'.
Either for practical purpose or ceremonial purposes?
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:50:32 AM PDT
by
hummingbird
(Mark Levin and Article 5. Period. 26 IS THE NEW 18. US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
To: Ramius
The sad part is that when I read the part about the rusty bronze sword and someone who heard me laugh asked what was I laughing at. I told them to read the article and they said “what, I don’t get it”.
I had to explain.
In the words of Lloyd Bridges in Airplane “I guess I chose the wrong week to quit smoking”
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:04:20 AM PDT
by
glyptol
To: DeaconBenjamin
At 26 cm (.85 feet or just over 10 inches) doesn’t seem like much if a sword - maybe a dagger but no sword
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:07:12 AM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: DeaconBenjamin
........... bonus for the boy and his father in honour of their deeds of protecting and donating cultural relic..........
Here’s a pound of rice for you, kid!
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:10:49 AM PDT
by
Noob1999
(Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
To: Smokin' Joe
Did someone throw a civil servant in the river?? LOL. One could only hope. (Last words: "From my wet dead hands!")
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:20:30 AM PDT
by
Moltke
("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
To: InterceptPoint
Does that letting on the scabbard say, “Bob?”
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:20:53 AM PDT
by
Afterguard
(Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
To: DeaconBenjamin
“...Qin Dynasty (221 BC-206 BC)...”
15 years is a dynasty?
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:45:40 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
To: Moltke
A human poniard would be a broadsword ... to a hobbit.
To: DeaconBenjamin
A 3000-year-old bronze sword has been discovered in a local river by an 11-year-old child in east China's Jiangsu Province. Yang Junxi discovered the rusty sword on July 2 when he was playing near the Laozhoulin River in Gaoyou County.
Bronze does not rust
That is why it is used for outdoor statuary.
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posted on
09/06/2014 11:12:30 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
To: Moltke
Zhan Shi Barbie...
Gee, I put it down for just a minute to tweet that loser, Ken... Anybody see my sword?...
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posted on
09/06/2014 11:16:24 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: DeaconBenjamin
Arnold probably lost it the first time he portrayed Conan in a play.
To: Drew68
Ten inches long. Wouldn't this make it a knife?"I see your Schwartz is as big as mine."
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posted on
09/06/2014 2:45:14 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: Ramius
glad.. you posted that,I read it earlier.. meant to post, forgot. 😕
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posted on
09/07/2014 12:20:53 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
To: InterceptPoint
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posted on
09/08/2014 12:28:43 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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