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Thanks Robert, much appreciated.
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Is there a list of the confirmed deceased available online somewhere?
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to giovanni tiso,
You know Neil I’m absolutely twatcocked if I can see what your point is in any of this?
Participial adjective! Nice.
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A graduation gift Doctor.
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Sorry, I’d been waiting for months to use the word.
litt-er-ick (Chiefly British) literick
/ˈlɪtərɪk/
-noun (c)a fallacious attribution of historical origin. The reduction of a complex set of interacting historical/ cultural phenomena to a singular simplified common genesis.
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who ever thought “bells + gunpowder = cannon”? not the chinese.
Nice litterick.
...Like firearms, cannon are a descendant of the fire lance, a gunpowder-filled tube attached to the end of a spear and used as a flamethrower in China.[11] Shrapnel was sometimes placed in the barrel, so that it would fly out along with the flames.[12] Eventually, the paper and bamboo of which fire lance barrels were originally constructed came to be replaced by metal.[13] It has been disputed at which point flame-projecting cannon were abandoned in favor of missile-projecting ones, as words meaning either incendiary or explosive are commonly translated as gunpowder.[14] The earliest known depiction of a gun is a sculpture from a cave in Sichuan, dating to the 12th century, that portrays a figure carrying a vase-shaped bombard, firing flames and a ball.[13][15] The oldest surviving gun, dated to 1288, has a muzzle bore diameter of 2.5 cm (1 in); the second oldest, dated to 1332, has a muzzle bore diameter of 10.5 cm (4 in).[11]
The first documented battlefield use of gunpowder artillery took place on January 28, 1132, when Song General Han Shizhong used huochong to capture a city in Fujian. The world's earliest known cannon, dated 1282, was found in Mongol-held Manchuria.[16] The first known illustration of a cannon is dated to 1326.[17] In his 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair, one of the first accounts of the use of gunpowder artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an eruptor could "pierce the heart or belly when it strikes a man or horse, and can even transfix several persons at once."[18...
...Ahmad Y. al-Hassan claims that the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260 saw the Mamluks use against the Mongols in "the first cannon in history" gunpowder formula which were almost identical with the ideal composition for explosive gunpowder, which he claims were not known in China or Europe until much later...
...The first confirmed use of gunpowder in Europe was the Moorish cannon, first used by the Andalusians in the Iberian Peninsula, at the siege of Seville in 1248, and the siege of Niebla in 1262.[21][34] By this time, hand guns were probably in use, as scopettieri—"gun bearers"—were mentioned in conjunction with crossbowmen, in 1281. In Iberia, the "first artillery-masters on the Peninsula" were enlisted, at around the same time
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Manakura,
e Chris, i tahae koe i tērā whakatauki mai i te māori dictionary.com pea? SNAP! hei aha, he whakatauki pono hei katakata au! :-) en’ari, he aha te honotan’a mai i te you-tube clip ki n’a whiti whakatūpato? kore e kitea
Aroha mai, tōmuri au, kātahi nā ka. Whakakatakata tikinare! Kei te taka mai ngā rā e mahia nuitia ai e te Pākehā te mahi whakamaroke me te mahi tini i te paramu me ērā atu huarākau! Mā tātou katoa tēnei mahi;) .Mā te wā. Mau te rongo.
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No worries Sam. Merry Christmas!
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If there's money to throw around, why not just put more into the industry with a proven track record: Film.
May I suggest Government playing a role in expanding New Zealand's porn industry? Too innovative?