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To: James C. Bennett

“No. The Chinese invented the first guns - hand-cannons, centuries before anyone else did. The oldest archaeological evidence for firearms in Europe goes back to the 1300s - Arab designs, basically, in turn borrowed from the Chinese via the Mongols.”

At least we were the first to invent spaghetti. ;-)


39 posted on 09/16/2010 1:09:19 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: Hacklehead

Heh heh!

Marco Polo’s Chinese host rolls in his grave!

:^)


40 posted on 09/16/2010 1:14:41 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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