And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Flint arrowhead embedded in an upper arm bone. From the battle at Tollense River, Germany. 1250 BC
Imagine the force needed to penetrate the muscle and embed the arrow head that deep in the bone. I wonder how far the bowman was when he let the arrow fly?
See that pitting? The poor SOB died of infection. Long slow & painful. If they had anyway to dope him (opium & belladonna in those days) they could have chipped the bone away and got that rock out. He might even have lived. They didn't. So he didn't.---Ray
See that pitting? The poor SOB died of infection. Long slow & painful. If they had anyway to dope him (opium & belladonna in those days) they could have chipped the bone away and got that rock out. He might even have lived. They didn't. So he didn't.---Ray
ReplyDeleteGives you a whole new appreciation for the phrase "Taking an arrow to the knee."
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