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[HiJinx]

It is of topical interest to note that one of the laws enjoins the army to leave the fruit and flower gardens, temples and other places of public worship unmolested.

Sounds a lot like the way we waged the recent conflict.

[Tamzee]

http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/state_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2419_3031662,00.html

Iraqi kitten reunites with Fort Carson soldier

By Associated Press
July 12, 2004

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A cat named Pvt. Hammer has rejoined one of the Fort Carson soldiers who adopted him in Iraq, thanks to an organization named Alley Cat Allies that raised $2,500 for shots, sterilization and a plane ride to the United States.

"Only my husband would go to this extreme for a cat," said Sheri Bousfield, wife of Staff Sgt. Rick Bousfield of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team.

The tabby cat was adopted by the brigade's Team Hammer after he was born last fall at a base in Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad.

The soldiers, who named Hammer after their team, would tuck him under their body armor during artillery attacks. Hammer would catch mice in the mess hall — that earned him a promotion to private first-class — and help soldiers beat the blues.

"He was a stress therapist," Rick Bousfield said. "The guys would come back in tired and stressed. Hammer would come back and bug the heck out of you. He wiped away some worries."

When Bousfield learned his unit was leaving Iraq in March, he decided he couldn't leave Hammer behind. He e-mailed Alley Cat Allies, a national clearinghouse on stray cats, for help.

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Bousfield met the cat at the airport and took him to his Colorado Springs home. The Bousfields and their three children have four other cats, a dog, hamsters and two geckos.

[Fifth Business]

Could someone point me to a single post, other than the original post, that addresses the putative topic? I haven't seen one, but allow me to be first.

This sentence interest me:

The history of ancient India is largely a history of Hindu culture and progress. Hindu culture has a distinct claim to a higher antiquity than Assyrian schools would claim for Sargon I and as much or even higher antiquity than Egyptian scholars would claim for the commencement of the first dynasty of Kings.

By "Sargon I" I assume they mean Sargon of Akkad (c. 2300 B.C.). What evidence is there that literate Indian culture existed at that time? And if a non-literate civilization is being cited, why compare it to the time of Sargon? Why not Ubaid culture or earlier? I don't get understand the comparison.

The Assyriologist I. Gelb proposed (and it has been generally accepted since) that the land called "Meluhha" in early cuneiform texts was the northern shore of the Arabian sea, perhaps as far as the Indus valley. The immediate descendants of Sargon claim to have defeated Meluhha repeatedly. Is there literary evidence from India about that time? And if so, do they address such military conflicts?