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Re: American know-how
Posted By: Howard, on host 205.184.139.55
Date: Monday, February 28, 2000, at 18:50:01
In Reply To: Re: American know-how posted by Kelly on Monday, February 28, 2000, at 12:42:00:

> > When the Ojibwa indians, who lived in the American southwest, observed a total solar eclipse, they went to the top of a hill and shot flaming arrows at it. This was to relight the sun, which had gone out. Don't laugh. It worked every time.
> > Howard
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> Without having invented the little-box-with-the-hole thingy, the Ojibwa were subsequently blinded and became the laughing stock of all the other tribes.
>
> Kel"well...you have to look at your target, right?"ly

I know what "they" always tell you, but do you really know anybody who was blinded by a solar eclipse?
Howard

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