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To: epicure who wrote (105318)	7/14/2003 5:39:00 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

New York Times, February 13, 1784 by Ima Revisionist and Shu Ona Otherfut, staff reporters His Excellency General Lafayette today announced the members of the American Consultative Council, who would advise the General in governing the new American Kingdom. The General, speaking from his headquarters in Philadelphia, said, "The brutal British imperialists, and their German mercenaries, who have inflicted so much suffering and death in America, have been defeated. The French Navy controls the coast. The French Army, with some help from General Washington's native army, has prevailed. With our aid, weapons, and advisors from the French Army, General Washington now leads a respectable force, which has helped us in many ways, in defeating the common enemy. They will be rewarded. We are currently considering whether to appoint General Washington as King. He has already indicated a willingness to pledge submission and fealty to the French Emperor. The American Consultative Council has been carefully chosen, by me, to reflect the cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity of America. I'm confidant I can work with them, and will only overrule their decisions in exceptional circumstances. The only groups who have been excluded, are pro-British traitors, and the radical terrorists, who call themselves democrats and republicans." In other news, several outlaws, the remnants of criminal bands who had resisted the French Governing Authority, were hanged in Boston Common today. Among the hanged rebels, were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Thom Paine, and Patrick Henry.

To: epicure who wrote (105318)	7/14/2003 6:15:11 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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. >>>