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Re: railroads and horses
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Yigal Levin <[log in to unmask]>
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Yigal Levin <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 20 May 2002 09:16:09 -0400
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Wow!

I was amazed at the quantity and quality of the reactions I received to the
railroad gauge piece. A similar piece of trivia, which I do not remember
where I heard, is that a British mobile artillery piece, which only needs 4
soldiers to operate it, always has a 5-man crew. The fifth man is the one
who used to hold the horse while the cannon was being fired!

Any information on that?


Dr. Yigal Levin
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga TN 37403-2598
U.S.A.

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