The Ghost of '99 wrote:You've not read the bible have you.
I’ve read the bible. Can you point out where it says “thou shall blow up innocent people” or “if thou sees a cartoon of Jesus thou should get a machine gun and murder people”?
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An chap called John Green has a series of 42 short videos on YouTube called Crash Course World History that I found entertaining and informative, when I watched them a few years ago.
Zoo Zoo Boom wrote:I think they had explosive in China well before that
An chap called John Green has a series of 42 short videos on YouTube called Crash Course World History that I found entertaining and informative, when I watched them a few years ago.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
An chap called John Green has a series of 42 short videos on YouTube called Crash Course World History that I found entertaining and informative, when I watched them a few years ago.
China had fireworks c200BC - started using explosives about 600AD - possibly just before the start of Islam.
An chap called John Green has a series of 42 short videos on YouTube called Crash Course World History that I found entertaining and informative, when I watched them a few years ago.
China had fireworks c200BC - started using explosives about 600AD - possibly just before the start of Islam.
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Zoo Zoo Boom wrote:China had fireworks c200BC - started using explosives about 600AD - possibly just before the start of Islam.
Primitive firecrackers (e.g. bamboo stems thrown into fires), you mean?
What’s your source for explosives being developed/used that early (before the 9th century)?
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
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Zoo Zoo Boom wrote:Try looking at the vintage news on google
Have gone into some sort of meta, self referential liar, liar parody skit here? With Johnsonian alt-facts?
It’s okay to be wrong. If a bit lazy nowadays. Like me, when I didn’t know what ‘commercial banking’ meant the other day. Learning is winning. Desperately reframing and chatting chaff isn’t for intellectual titans like me and thee. It is for second rate bluffers like ABdPJ.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
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