[muawiyah]

All the other stuff is OK, but the steel sword thing isn't. There's this problem in most of the Eastern Seaboard. The soil is so acidic (from a combination of native iron ore to granite to just plain old everyday bacteria etc) that even iron and steel implements dropped and lost by our immediate ancestors have already been eaten away.

Unless the materials were specially protected ~ like the Spanish cross buried with the dead guy at Spanish HIll PA in the late 1500s ~ they are just gone.

Only the most acid resistant goods have survived just the last 400 years. Ceramics, fired clay, large iron objects ~ that's about it.

Otherwise there's no evidence of any pre-Columbian iron culture in Eastern North America, nor should there be. In the West things are different, but we still don't see iron implements ~ or much of anything in terms of high culture. Still we know Buddhists of some sort made it to the PacNW, and Japanese made it to the Zuni area, Costa Rica, Chile, and other areas in pre-Columbian times, but there's no evidence they engaged in making iron objects ~ and they knew how!

[Darksheare]

Anyone else recalling Saundra Duffy pushing the limits of good conduct and then constantly claiming censorship and martyrdom when called on it?

Well, we have Grig here being a doofus and anti_FReeping from the trollpit of trewblew.
And we have MrPiper posting garbage to provoke a mod reaaction and then whining about it as well.
Couldn’t be that they are trying to fake an event like Dan Rather did, right?
No, that wouldn’t happen.