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    Bridge jack mortar

    Just to be the Devil's Advocate, this source notes that a bowling ball's minimum diameter is 8.5" and the maximum is 8.595". http://www.bowl.com/Downloads/pdf/USBCequipmanual2005_sectionIII.pdf Have fun shelling the local Lanes. :thumbsup:
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    Lewis & Clark through Indian Eyes

    Note - NBC this morning had a piece on a photographer that helped determine a more accurate location for Fort Clatsop. Indians' reflections on famous expedition Reviewed by Dewey Hammond SF Chronicle Sunday, May 7, 2006 Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes Edited by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. KNOPF...
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    Joliet and Marquette vs. the Piasa Bird(s)

    Dino-Era Fossils Inspired Monster Myths, Author Says John Roach National Geographic News June 17, 2005 According to the Lakota, or Sioux, Indians' "Water Monsters of the Badlands" legend, the rugged and eroded lands of southwestern South Dakota were the stage for an epic battle between water...
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    Joliet and Marquette vs. the Piasa Bird(s)

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    Joliet and Marquette vs. the Piasa Bird(s)

    I know, but I posted it to see what spun out. The reality behind our pre- recorded history is worth speculating about - *what* caused the local Indians to try to mark the tale for posterity? And if we want to toss in a teaspoon of cryptozoology, there's quite a number of tales about these...
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    Joliet and Marquette vs. the Piasa Bird(s)

    No skin off my backside what you believe or not. However, there was *something* to the tale that Joliet & Marquette recorded. So what was it?
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    Joliet and Marquette vs. the Piasa Bird(s)

    From the dark recesses of history comes a legend so amazing and terrifying, it’s astonishing that more people don’t know of its existence. If you live in the St. Louis area, chances are you are familiar with the legend; or may have heard bits and pieces of it here and there. As historians and...
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    Scottish Distillery Revives 184-Proof Whisky

    By JENNIFER PRICE, AP LONDON (Feb. 27) - A Scottish distillery said Monday it was reviving a centuries-old recipe for whisky so strong that one 17th-century writer feared more than two spoonfuls could be lethal. The process, carried out under the watchful eye of Master Distiller Jim McEwan...
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    Pre-Cabot Chinese settlement in NA

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4609074.stm A map due to be unveiled in Beijing and London next week may lend weight to a theory a Chinese admiral discovered America before Christopher Columbus. The map, which shows North and South America, apparently states that it is a 1763 copy of...
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    "The New World" movie, first review

    Indian Country, a native american newspaper, weighs in with an interview of the actress playing Pocahontas. http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412244 Thought this was interesting - What little we know about Matoaka is pieced together from the historical accounts of others...
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    Firearms & Equipment, from late Renaissance to Thirty Years War

    More Devil's Advocacy - http://patdonnellyantiquearms.com/dec2005/display.asp?item=424 424) Austrian Wheelock Rifle. 31 1/2" octagonal, swamped barrel, approx. .64 cal., deeply rifled with 7 grooves. Decorated at muzzle and breech with gold inlay, signed " NICOLAUS KOCH IN WIENN " (Nicolaus...
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    "The New World" movie, first review

    December 31, 2005 Printer Friendly PageTell a Friend "The New World" is a Visual Banquet, a "Must See Film" By Brian Orndorf (AXcess News) Hollywood - In 1687, John Smith (Colin Farrell) was part of a small fleet of ships that set sail from England to find mysterious new worlds on the other...
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    Bess Makeover 1

    FWIW, I just stripped down a Jap Bess stock and it's blond - like an Eastern European Elm blond. Anyone have an idea what wood the Japanese used for this?
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    Calling all sub-scale cannoneers

    Too bad you didn't get video of that. :grin:
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    On the problem of Wolves

    Yup, I just stumbled on this http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/dec05/379627.asp There have been other wolf attacks, and in an area near where Carnegie was killed, Paquet said he interviewed a worker who was jogging to work in 2004 when he was attacked by a lone wolf. The worker, who also was...
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    On the problem of Wolves

    The posting from which I swiped the passage above dealt directly with that question, there being other incidences throughout the 19th and early 20th century that didnt' seem to 'fit' over here. If those two poor fellows managed to kill three wolves between them, you have to wonder how many...
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    On the problem of Wolves

    Found this on another board and thought it might be of interest here: . Noted naturalists documented wolf attacks on humans. John James Audubon of whom the Audubon Society is named, reported an attack involving 2 Negroes. He records that the men were traveling through a part of Kentucky near...
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    Valley Forge Encampment

    American Heritage article on this event - [url] http://www.americanheritage.com/events/articles/web/20051219-thomas-paine-valley-forge-revolutionary-war-patrick-henry-george-washington-nathanael-greene-american-revolution-continental-army-von-steuben-valley-creek-schuylkill.shtml[/url]
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    Pre-Cabot Chinese settlement in NA

    [Did Chinese beat out Columbus? (Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop - The International Herald Tribune) June 27, 2005]Architect believes Chinese found Cape Breton Associated Press HALIFAX ”” A nine-kilometre road winds its way up an isolated mountain where a stone wall sits amid fields of wild blueberries...
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    Valley Forge Encampment

    1777. :grin: For anyone going to this, there's a gunshow this coming weekend at the nearby Sheraton Conference Center.
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