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Boy discovers 3000-year-old bronze sword in China
Times of India ^
| Sep 6, 2014, 06.33 PM IST
Posted on 09/06/2014 8:39:58 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin
" ... but I felt it would be illegal to sell the cultural relic," Jinhai told sate-run ... "Like a good democrat;
turn in your parents, turn in your kids, turn in your wealth ...
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posted on
09/06/2014 8:42:00 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: DeaconBenjamin
Dang, some thief must be really po’ed, he thought it would be safe in the river for a little, but a kid came across it.
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posted on
09/06/2014 8:42:48 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: DeaconBenjamin
"... its owner would have been an able man with the qualification to have such artifact," he said." Common sense sword control.
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posted on
09/06/2014 8:43:49 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
To: DeaconBenjamin
How could it be “rusty”? Rust is associated with iron.
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posted on
09/06/2014 8:45:01 AM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: reg45
Chinese phony Brass for sale to Western Tourists.
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posted on
09/06/2014 8:49:46 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: DeaconBenjamin
Gryffindor called, wants his sword back
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posted on
09/06/2014 8:51:49 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: DeaconBenjamin
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posted on
09/06/2014 8:56:06 AM PDT
by
mylife
To: DeaconBenjamin
Nice. A little bigger image:
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:04:44 AM PDT
by
InterceptPoint
(Remember Mississippi)
To: DeaconBenjamin; Ramius; 300winmag; IrishCatholic; lookout88; Wpin; spetznaz; Smokin' Joe; ...
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:07:39 AM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: DeaconBenjamin
My observation:
Between this
"Some people even offered high prices to buy the the sword, but I felt it would be illegal to sell the cultural relic," Jinhai told sate-run Xinhua news agency.
and
The relics bureau and municipal museum of Gaoyou City have sent the collection certificates and bonus for the boy and his father in honour of their deeds of protecting and donating cultural relic.
Fear of prosecution by the State propagandized as 'honor'...
Beginning to see that here, we are...
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:08:26 AM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(I see stupid people)
To: DeaconBenjamin
the 26-cm-long yellow-brown sword That's just over 10 inches - not much of a sword. Perhaps they meant 26 in.
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:09:32 AM PDT
by
Moltke
("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
To: DeaconBenjamin
...rusty sword... No it wasn't. It may have been a lot of things, but a bronze sword isn't rusty. [sigh]. Journalists, however...
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:10:04 AM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: DeaconBenjamin
Initial identifications found the 26-cm-long yellow-brown swordTen inches long. Wouldn't this make it a knife?
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:12:10 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Drew68
3000 years ago the Chinese were even smaller than they are today...:)
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:15:33 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(I have had just about enough)
To: DeaconBenjamin
"Initial identifications found the 26-cm-long yellow-brown sword "That's about 10.24 inches long. Must have been some kind of midgets back then. ( Maybe Chinese centimeters are different.)
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:16:58 AM PDT
by
matthew fuller
(Barak Hussein Obama- the first step into a thousand years of darkness.)
To: Drew68; Moltke
If the handle is about 4 inches (handwidth) then the sword looks to be about 25-26 inches long, not 26 cm.
To: Moltke
Yah. 26cm? It looks bigger than that, even if the grip was made for a fairly small single hand. Judging by the photo, if the grip is even only 5 inches (fairly small) I make the over length then as over 25 inches. So a 26 inch length could be about right.
Also... Love the finger grips for the first two fingers. They’d be less pronounced under whatever material was used to wrap the grip but that sure seems to be what they are. Not unlike some modern finger grips for pistols.
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:21:57 AM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: Moltke
It looks, judging from the grip, to be roughly the size of a gladius. Figure about 4 inches length for the hand grip.
The short sword seems a status symbol of a civil official. It has both decorative and practical functions, but is not in the shape of sword for military officers,
Did someone throw a civil servant in the river??
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posted on
09/06/2014 9:22:14 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: DeaconBenjamin
Under the zero tolerance policy, he was expelled from school and sent to sensitivity training. /s
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