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New Babylonian Town Found
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| 3-19-2008
| Azzaman
Posted on 03/20/2008 2:48:27 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
03/20/2008 2:48:28 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
What the heck is a “duck weight?”
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posted on
03/20/2008 2:51:20 PM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: patton
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posted on
03/20/2008 2:52:57 PM PDT
by
an amused spectator
(Spitzer would have used the Mann Act against an enemy in a New York minute.)
To: blam
Ancient Babylonian legislations must have been quite brutal, he added. Yes chopping of heads is so much more civilized then driving nails through feet, hands, and neck, then cutting the body in half and burying half in a wall and half in an urn.
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posted on
03/20/2008 2:53:35 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
To: patton
I know there is a witch joke in here somewhere
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posted on
03/20/2008 2:54:42 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
To: an amused spectator
I was expectin, “about ten pounds...”
Ba-da-bump.
;)
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posted on
03/20/2008 2:54:58 PM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: patton
Dang! I didn’t even come close to setting the hook! :-)
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posted on
03/20/2008 2:56:23 PM PDT
by
an amused spectator
(Spitzer would have used the Mann Act against an enemy in a New York minute.)
To: blam
Ok so here is the rest of the story. Early on in the invasion of Iraq the US Military had a inordinate number of forces searching in this are for something, This same area was extensively searched in Desert Storm also. The tin foil hat gang believes the Bush family is searching for the Stargate. This Stargate is not the one of TV and movie fame; it is a device that let's you communicate directly with the old (or the ancients) ones. The ones who seeded this planet. If true they may have found it.
Just reporting you decide.
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posted on
03/20/2008 2:58:16 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
To: an amused spectator
It’s like a “hen weigh”.What's a hen weigh?
To: blam
A Babylonian duck weight.
What else would you use if you had to weigh a bunch of ducks?
To: patton
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posted on
03/20/2008 2:59:29 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
Well, you learn something new every day...
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posted on
03/20/2008 3:02:38 PM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: patton
British Museum
Granite Weight In The Form Of A Duck
Kingdom of Lagash, about 2150-2000 BC
Probably from southern Iraq
The weight is inscribed in cuneiform with the name of Ur-Ningirsu, ruler of the city-state of Lagash as the successor to Gudea. Ur-Ningirsu ruled in a period following the decline of the empire of Agade (Akkad) and the rise of a new political power centred on the city of Ur.
Although all the administrators of city states in southern Mesopotamia used the cuneiform writing system, they used various methods of weighing and measuring. With the formation of the empires of Agade and Ur the cities were united under one king. Attempts were made to reorganize the administration and introduce standardization. This must have helped communication and control.
The weight of this stone is given as 2 talents. A talent was approximately 30 kilos and could be divided into 60 minas. Stone was preferred for weights of different standards in the Bronze Age (about 3000-1000 BC). There was a gradual shift to metals in the first millennium BC (for example, two bronze weights in the form of a lion, also in The British Museum).
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posted on
03/20/2008 3:03:02 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
In german, the name “Ur” is still extant in the language, as in “Uralt” - really, really old.
Funny how things like that work.
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posted on
03/20/2008 3:07:48 PM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: blam
Have they found “Mohammed’s” tomb???????????
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posted on
03/20/2008 3:08:50 PM PDT
by
geo40xyz
((McCain, Obama or Hillarybeast possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?))
To: blam
A 30 kilogram duck weight? Yes, ducks were bigger back then!
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posted on
03/20/2008 3:10:58 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: blam
35 seconds. Neener neener! BTT.
To: patton
as in Asbach Uralt a distilled brandy-like spirit...
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posted on
03/20/2008 3:18:49 PM PDT
by
rahbert
To: rahbert
Yep - last time I was in Germany, I searched all over for an Eschenbacher Aschenbecher...all I could find was Asbach!
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posted on
03/20/2008 3:21:13 PM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: GreenHornet
About two pounds. /Henny Youngman
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
03/20/2008 3:27:01 PM PDT
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
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