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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4593)	2/28/2006 10:12:20 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217997

sounds like you wear skirts ;0) first we must have true recognition of the past, so as to appreciate the possible mean of the future the deeper truth has naught to do with golf, and much to do with cyber and real ... but that is for the future teotwawki winks, twoapuc beckons, and ntoeawsbe impels then there are those very clever ballistic missile systems designed to take out all designated large ocean-going platforms in one fell swoop, and the 3 cents on the dollar space exploration initiatives so much to watch and brief on, and so much to anticipate but, first, what is incorrect stands correction, if only for the fun of it, to amuse during the course of the journey

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4593)	3/1/2006 2:29:47 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217997

>>Our daughter Emily invented a rhubarb umbrella... I bet China didn't come up with such a sophisticated umbrella. << Silly Mq... The Chinese invented rhubarb! For your barbarian insolence you must kowtow 30 times in the direction of Hong Kong! 3 - Rhubarb History rhubarbinfo.com Rhubarb is a very old plant. Its medicinal uses and horticulture have been recorded in history since ancient China. 3.1 - Early History Earliest records date back to 2700 BC in China where Rhubarb was cultivated for medicinal purposes (its purgative qualities). According to Lindley's Treasury of Botany, the technical name of the genus (Rheum) is said to be derived from Rha, the ancient name of the Volga, on whose banks the plants grow. There were those who called it Rha Ponticum, and others Rheum or Rha-barbarum. Others derive the name from the Greek rheo ('to flow'), in allusion to the purgative properties of the root. One of the most famous pharmacologists of ancient times the Greek Discorides, spoke of a root known as "rha" or "rheon", which came from the Bosphorus (the winding strait that separates Europe and Asia). 1 2 3 4 The following comes from Bj÷rn Kjellgren, Dept. of Chinese studies, University of Stockholm, Sweden: "You might be interested in the following from the (Chinese) 25 Dynastic Histories, ershiwu shi (the collected official histories of the emperial dynasties): Rhubarb is given to the Wu emperor of the Liang dynasty (reign: 557-579) to cure his fever but only after warning him that rhubarb, being a most potent drug, must be taken with great moderation. Rhubarb was transported to the throne as tributes from the southern parts of China during the Tang dynasty (618-907). During the Song dynasty (960-1127) the rhubarb is taken in times of plague. During the Yuan dynasty (1115-1234) a Christian sentenced to a hard punishment is pardoned after using previously collected rhubarb to heal some soldiers. During the end of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) a Ming-general tries (in vain) to commit suicide by eating rhubarb medicine. The Guangzong emperor (1620-1621) is miraculously cured from some severe illness he got after having had a joyful time with four "beautiful women" sent to him by a high official, cured with rhubarb, naturally. 1759 the Qianlong emperor of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) forbids export of tea and rhubarb to the Russians after a border conflict in the north part of China. In 1790 the same emperor declares that the Western countries will have to do without rhubarb. In 1828 the Daoguang-emperor sends out an edict to the effect that no more tea and rhubarb must now be sold to the "barbarians". The imperial commissioner, Lin Zexu, who was sent to Canton in 1839 to put an end to the opium trade wrote a letter to Queen Victoria pointing to the "fact" that the foreign barbarians surely would die if they could not obtain tea and rhubarb from China and that the Queen for this reason should stop the wicked British merchants from trading with opium. Victoria seems never to have had the letter translated and read for her and when Lin Zexu later the same year wrote to the British merchants in Canton telling them that a stop to the rhubarb trade would mean the death for the pitiful foreigners, the pitiful foreigners responded with canon boats. Should maybe the Opium War really be called the Rhubarb War?