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"Baghdad Battery" : Possible Beer Purification?
Electrum Magazine ^ | February 24, 2019 | Adrian Arima

Posted on 04/19/2019 11:52:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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Sumerian cylinder seal relief of beer drinking, Ur, ca. 2500 BCE (image public domain)

Sumerian cylinder seal relief of beer drinking, Ur, ca. 2500 BCE (image public domain)

1 posted on 04/19/2019 11:52:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
In before the nitwit Nibiru bull****.

2 posted on 04/19/2019 11:52:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Looks like hookah smoking


3 posted on 04/19/2019 11:55:12 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: Billthedrill

Ping. Even then, they were looking at scientific methods to produce a fine beer.


4 posted on 04/19/2019 11:55:58 AM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: SunkenCiv

5 posted on 04/19/2019 11:56:31 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: SunkenCiv

Ctesiphon - the Sassanid capital and previously in the Parthian Empire around 1936...

Amazing, I didn’t know the Parthian Empire lasted until
1936.

Learn something new every day.


6 posted on 04/19/2019 11:59:18 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I have read that the battery was used by magicians. For what, I don’t know.


7 posted on 04/19/2019 12:07:08 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: mbarker12474

"Schlitz??"


8 posted on 04/19/2019 12:08:12 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (AOC: The brain of a tea bisquit)
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To: SunkenCiv

Obviously it was for facial hair removal.


9 posted on 04/19/2019 12:11:24 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SunkenCiv
He would know . . .

Yea, I know . . . Patrick Macnee is not Patrick McGovern. So?

10 posted on 04/19/2019 12:18:00 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Well any excuse for me to post this.

11 posted on 04/19/2019 12:19:37 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: yarddog
Someone dug up the magician's instructions, but *poof* they vanished! :^)

12 posted on 04/19/2019 12:27:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Them’s the Peil’s brothers! Bert & Harry, IIRC.


13 posted on 04/19/2019 12:28:21 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Publius

Ah, thanks for the ping. We owe beer so much. Well, I do, anyway.


14 posted on 04/19/2019 12:29:36 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: COBOL2Java

Blatz wasn’t good enough I guess.


15 posted on 04/19/2019 12:42:19 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: CJ Wolf

... well, a German scientist DID discover the darned thing... so I’m going with beer.


16 posted on 04/19/2019 2:02:36 PM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d*mned! The narrative of the day must be preserved!)
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To: SunkenCiv

NI-BEER-U!


17 posted on 04/19/2019 3:39:37 PM PDT by null and void (If socialism is so grand, why are Guatemalans coming here instead of going to Venezuela?)
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To: mbarker12474
it was at one time
18 posted on 04/19/2019 3:55:09 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: SunkenCiv

I enjoyed this article, thanks for posting it.


19 posted on 04/19/2019 4:13:46 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Obviously a battery.

Too bad about that long wait for the transistor, though.


20 posted on 04/19/2019 4:16:40 PM PDT by Flintlock ("FIRST the Saturday people, THEN the Sunday people"--gee whatever do they mean by that?)
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