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Bodies of WWI soldiers found in Alpine glacier -
ABC News - Australia ^
| August 23, 2004
Posted on 08/22/2004 5:08:17 PM PDT by UnklGene
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posted on
08/22/2004 5:08:17 PM PDT
by
UnklGene
To: UnklGene
Wow, and preserved well if they believe it was a grenade that did them in.
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posted on
08/22/2004 5:10:13 PM PDT
by
Vision
("This is in God's hands now")
To: UnklGene
Over there!
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posted on
08/22/2004 5:10:47 PM PDT
by
UnklGene
To: blam
Here's something that might interest you, sort of current events archeology!
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posted on
08/22/2004 5:11:48 PM PDT
by
jocon307
(That's allowed, as long as we all vote for W.)
To: UnklGene
As the glaciers retreat, there will be more such finds. Glaciers are better preserved sites even than peat bogs.
100 years is nothing. What was Ötzi - 4 or 5 thousand years old?
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posted on
08/22/2004 5:13:10 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: UnklGene
"A Soldier of the Great War" by Mark Helprin relates a stories of fighting between Italian and German (perhaps Austrian) Alpine troops. A very worthwhile read.
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posted on
08/22/2004 5:17:26 PM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
To: UnklGene
Anything having to do with 'A Farewell To Arms'?
To: UnklGene
Aucicles.
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posted on
08/22/2004 5:27:09 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
To: Vision
They tend to last well at those high altitudes. The upper regions of Everest are littered with dead climbers from the last eighty years.
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posted on
08/22/2004 5:37:20 PM PDT
by
somemoreequalthanothers
(When the government seeks to give the people all they want, it will soon take all they have.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/22/2004 5:39:25 PM PDT
by
somemoreequalthanothers
(When the government seeks to give the people all they want, it will soon take all they have.)
To: jocon307
"Here's something that might interest you, sort of current events archeology!" Good, thanks.
I was gonna post this from The Telegraph but my search turned up your post.
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posted on
08/22/2004 5:40:39 PM PDT
by
blam
To: squarebarb
Anything having to do with 'A Farewell To Arms'?Possibly, if they were picking up a live grenade at the time it went off.
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posted on
08/22/2004 6:39:17 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
To: UnklGene
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posted on
08/22/2004 6:42:09 PM PDT
by
qwertz
To: UnklGene
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posted on
08/22/2004 6:45:56 PM PDT
by
Finalapproach29er
( Election day: FOUR Supreme Court Justices! Enough said.)
To: qwertz
Great pix, the short carbines are M-95 straight pull actions shooting a 6.5x56r cartridge. I have one and it shoots very well.
Can't make out the long rifles though, horrible conditions
to fight in.
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posted on
08/22/2004 6:48:00 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: somemoreequalthanothers
On a glacier, it's a different sequence of events..Glaciers are "living" masses of ice...the bodies would have become covered with snowfall..which then compressed as ice..and would have become buried...example..WW II planes thar crashed on Greenland were found recently buried under 250 FEET of ice...but the glacier, moves..it flows to the mouth and as the glacier gets shallower, the pieces..metal, bodies, rocks..get oushed up tot he surface..
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posted on
08/22/2004 6:48:14 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(We've looked for WMD in Iraq for LESS time than Hillary looked for the Rose Law firm billing records)
To: Vision
Hey remember that mummy that Bill Clinton said he would date?
To: UnklGene
A chilling reminder, enter into mutual defense alliance with Italians at own risk.
To: Sam Cree
Not only is A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR a superlative novel, but Mark Helprin is a Republican speech writer who worked for Bush 41. This novel was so brilliant it profoundly changed the way I look at life.
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posted on
08/22/2004 6:54:17 PM PDT
by
Shqipo
(The gloves are on and the corners are empty.)
To: ken5050
The one where they went down for the P 38? I watched a docu on that.
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posted on
08/22/2004 6:55:13 PM PDT
by
somemoreequalthanothers
(When the government seeks to give the people all they want, it will soon take all they have.)
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