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Sean O'Donoghue-Hayes wrote:
>It is also interesting that in places where there was not a record kept of
>the achievements of various innovative folk in the form of technical
writing
>many of those skills are lost forever
...how they made the terracotta warriors that guard the first Qin emperor's
tomb? The archaelogists responsible for putting them back together again
built kilns at the technological level known to exist in 220 BCE, and made
replicas. Once they'd established how the warriors were made, they shattered
the replicas to see how they broke to see how the pieces fell to establish
which bits probably went with each warrior. And so on. The Qin emperor had
no records kept of his terracotta army, either.
>And then bryan westbrook mentioned "I'll show you a glorified secretary".
>.....so is a glorified secretary a secretary who sits upon an
>elephant, dressed in silks and furs, hair in a high bun that is interlaced
>with sparkling rubies and other gems from the orient - be they male or
>female, do they strike a great gong, before uttering each word? Is this a
>glorified secretary?
Yay! Yes. I want my elephant!
Jane Carnall
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