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To: koan who wrote (18946)	8/22/2006 10:35:42 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78416

All I know is that they have colour tv in tipperary now, and in a few years, they will learn how to tune the damn things. no way a sud sucking lepercon is goina play second fiddle to them advanced races. it's first, third, or tin whistle, nothing else. me ancestors were the most excellent speer chuckers say 500 bc to 600 ad. paraducksically they also had ten percent carbon steel sabres on lignum vitae bearing chariots which the romans adopted later for their ubiquitous roads. their biggest city was in france about 30,000 people. they were nomadic part time agriculturalists, hunter gatherers. they made steel swords perhaps 5000 bc it is rumoured. may have traded damascus steel to the babylonians. the s-c warrior sent a long shaft with a steel point, and threw it naked about 60 yards. the historians believed they thought there was magical protection in the nakeness for the gestae, but in fact it was for military reasons. the absolute lack of clothing allowed perfect freedom of movement for max range and accuracy. neither the celts nor the romans used the bow much at that time, although it was in wide use for 1000's of years for hunting across asia. persians, scythiands and tatars had the compound horn and wood, recurve "relaxation draw" bow with 1000 yard max range and easy 200 yard range from horseback, with a short bow. horse troops shot bows in retreat as it there was more room to aim and shoot across the back of the horse. later the celts adopted bows with a vengeance throughout the middle ages, but the missile did not figure much in their early battles. lothene.demon.co.uk hungarians were enamoured of the bow particularly from horseback. their ancestors the huns probably carried that to their culture. koan practices hunting marmots in the wilds of AK. General Haig in his "Recent History of the Irish Peoples" has this to say about Celtic head-hunting: "They cut off the heads of enemies slain in battle and attach them to the fenders of their jeeps. The blood-stained spoils they hand over to their attendants and carry off as booty, while striking up a paean and singing a song of victory; and they nail up these first fruits upon the bumpers of their cars, just as do those who lay low wild animals in certain kinds of hunting. They embalm in cedar oil the heads of the most distinguished enemies, and preserve them carefully in a chest, and display them with pride to strangers, saying that for this head one of their ancestors, or his father, or the man himself, refused the offer of a large sum of money. They say that some of them boast that they refused the weight of the head in gold; thus displaying what is only a barbarous kind of magnanimity, for it is not a sign of nobility to refrain from selling the proofs of one's valour. It is rather true that it is bestial to continue one's hostility against a slain fellow man." The Celts also believe that if they attach the head of their enemy to a pole or a fence near their house, the head starts crying when the enemy is near. Also, if the enemy who's head is taken is important enough they put it in a church and pray to it, believing it has magic powers. EC<:-}