AoSHQ: Morning Report 06.19.26
Showing posts with label elephants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elephants. Show all posts
Friday, June 19, 2026
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Hunting Mammoths 🐘 & Your Ancient Ancestors
Watts Up With That: From Giant Elephants to Nimble Gazelles
Your ancient ancestors hunted mammoths to aurochs...
I still find it unlikely they wiped them out
Separated at Birth: Ancient Denisovan and Danny Bonaduce
Early Humans Slept Around... with Denisovans
AoSHQ: Morning Report 12.22.21
Animal Magnetism: Gingermageddon
The Right Way: Saturday Link-O-Rama
American Elephants : Greta on the Shelf...
Diogenes Middle Finger: A Yuletide message...
Pirate's Cove: If all you see... and Sorta Blogless Pinup
A View From The Beach: Paola Righetti and Fish Pic Friday
Proof Positive: December 7, Quote du jour, and Best of the Web
Rush Limbaugh: Never Let the World Forget What Happened on D-Day
Feral Irishman: Friday Femme Fatale, N'oubliez Jamais, and Way Back Wed
EBL: Don't Deny The Science: DIE HARD IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE 🎅🎄🔥
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links
Dispatches from the Camp of the Saints: House of Special Purpose 102, Rush Limbaugh, RIP, Happy 105th, and Mark Steyn: Welcome to the Jungle Part 666
TOM: In The Mailbox: 12.21.21, Joe Manchin Wrecks ‘Build Back Better,’ Ruins Christmas for Democrats, In The Mailbox: 12.20.21, ‘No Stranger to Law Enforcement’, Colts Beat Patriots 27-17; Taylor Rushes for 170 Yards; Playoff Race Tightens, Merry Christmas, Florida Man!, ‘Shopping Cart Killer’ Caught, Police Say
A collection of sites known for appreciation of Rule 5 and streaming through the Wuhan Coronacalypse:
Egotastic
Wired Right
Proof Positive
MissK's World...
By Other Means
The Last Tradition
The Classic Liberal
Old Retired Petty Officer
The Woodpile Report (RIP)
GOODSTUFF'S CYBER WORLD (RIP)
Monday, May 24, 2021
The Flaming War Pigs of Ancient Rome 🐘🔥🐗🔥😬
Most of us know Hannibal and Carthage had war elephants. The Romans were, if anything, brutal pragmatists when facing the enemy. Of course, why risk the lives of Legionnaires when you can send screaming flaming swine at the enemy? Turns out Carthaginian war elephants will flee from flaming pigs.
I greatly enjoyed the Punic Wars, but I must have missed the part of the flaming pigs of death. Truth is war elephants were used for hundreds of years in India (Alexander the Great faced them) and the practice spread to Carthage. Flaming war pigs were just one tactic, there were a variety of techniques that neutralized this weapon.
Pigs aside, that series of wars could have gone the other way, and (had it done so) history would have forever been changed. Worst? Better? Hard to say. Carthage and Rome (in terms of people and government) shared some similarities, although it was the Roman citizens who ultimately ended up defeating Carthage. Heck, the Romans even (after the fact) tied their own origins to Troy and Carthage.
Mental Floss: Roast Pork
Songfacts: War Pigs
AoSHQ: Morning Report 05.24.21
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