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To: epicure who wrote (105318)	7/14/2003 6:15:11 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<<<Ask yourself- who shot first?>>> Good question, how far back do you want to go ?. How many Americans were killed in the first attack on Kuwait? Get the right answers and could have saved a lot of Hatfields and Mc Coys, end a lot of wars.. Who shot the Austran Prince? Did someone shoot at the Maine or blow it up? But my guess it was a Chinaman back around 1100 AD Sig From another URL: <<< I have been able to refute the common notion that the Chinese invented gunpowder but only used it for fireworks. I'm sure that they discovered military uses for it. I have found the earliest illustration of a cannon in the world, which dates from the change-over from the Northern Song to the Southern Song around 1127, which was 150 years before the development of the cannon in the West. The Song also used gunpowder to make fire lances - actually flame throwers - and many other gunpowder weapons, such as anti-personnel mines, which are thankfully now being taken out of general use. >>>

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