Incredible find and a nice departure from the Bush book hysteria threads. ;)
"Two 150-year-old dolls have been x-rayed in a bid to discover if they were used by Confederate soldiers to smuggle medical supplies past Union blockades during the U.S. Civil War."
Hmmm.......how easy it is to change the content of the title and the text.
Smarmy media.
No one fights better than the men and women of the US Armed Forces. Unfortunately, the government and the citizenry have become squeamish and are not sure if winning is a good idea.
The article betrays a real ignorance of the Civil War, and of blockade running.
While the dolls may have been English made, any blockade running boat would have stored quinine or morphine supplies openly—because, if the Federals captured the blockade runner, the contents (dolls and all) would be sent north or destroyed anyway.
If these dolls were used for smuggling needed drugs, they were used by people smuggling drugs from the north. Smugglers would often go by train or boat to a place such as Memphis, TN, far from any seaport, and the dolls would be carried through the lines by civilians.
This supposition is bolstered by the fact that the donor, Confederate General Patton Anderson’s family, was from the Memphis area. And another correction—while Anderson commanded a division in the Confederate “Army of Tennessee”, he did NOT command that army, nor was there any “Tennessee Army of the Confederacy.”
Gin and tonic just isn't the same otherwise...
IFFFF the South had won, would we have the situation we have on November 2, 2010??
That’s actually a pic of the airport scanner when JoyBehar walked through it last weekend.
Nina has a safety pin where her belly button should be...