Had to edit out a lot of hyperbole and editorializing. This could be a Scythian town, Chihu, "the metropolitan city of a mighty state of Wusung nomads", perhaps Median, etc etc...

1 posted on
12/29/2007 8:32:23 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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2 posted on
12/29/2007 8:33:13 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Based on the title, the is a Teddy Kennedy joke in there somewhere.
3 posted on
12/29/2007 8:40:23 PM PST by
gov_bean_ counter
( Who is America's George Galloway?)
To: SunkenCiv
"...self-sharpening daggers..., " The blades had a tungsten laminar coating?
11 posted on
12/30/2007 3:54:23 AM PST by
Does so
(...against all enemies, DOMESTIC and foreign...)
To: SunkenCiv
12 posted on
12/30/2007 7:46:45 AM PST by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: SunkenCiv
Heck, that’s nothing.
There’s a lost city of gold at the bottom of Lake Erie.
Hey, wait a minute...
Lake Issyk Kul?
Lake Icicle?
What is this, April Fool? ;’)
18 posted on
12/30/2007 10:27:41 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
22 posted on
07/06/2008 1:24:55 AM PDT by
TigersEye
(Berlin '36 Olympics for murdering regimes Beijing '08)
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