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Lesser Known History

While researching to find the most exotic, lightweight material to build the most expensive saddle I came across this.....


 
Mschmeiske said:
While I was in Ireland a couple years ago I learned about their revolution and found it quite interesting... and sad really....especially since it wasn’t too long ago. 100 years or so? Some people who fought in the war together that were best friends, ended up killing each other in the end. Imagine the best man in your wedding becoming your enemy and you have him killed? I think the youngest inmate in the jail was 5 or so years old? One gentlemen got married, couldn’t kiss his wife and was hung or shot the next day and she never married again. Anyway, that’s just a taste of some of the stuff I heard...... it was very chilling standing in the same spot that some of there heroes stood while they were killed by firing squad. I tell you what, I wouldn’t have signed a treaty for 26 of the 31 counties? I would’ve went all or nothing or died trying.....
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You got a bit more reading to do if you think that revolution ended with the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
 
Zoa said:
You got a bit more reading to do if you think that revolution ended with the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
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Lol. My career isn’t in history. That was a brief summary of some of what I learned while in Ireland.. people still fight to this day, we see it periodically.
 
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I just read the first Jim Corbett Omnibus book and I’m about to start the second. Awesome book, he was a British gentleman that lived in India in the early 1900’s. He traveled around the country and hunted down man eating tigers and leopards that were terrorizing villages. Two of the cats he killed, one tiger and one leopard, had combined killed around 900 people but it’s estimated many more in rural areas that attacks did not get reported. He usually had minions build him a seat in trees that he would sit in all night and hunt them and he also fashioned a sling style set up like a saddle on a some hunts. He had some crazy stalks and close calls where the cats were hunting him and killed several that fell at his feet or flew past them trying to kill him as he in turn killed them. Great read about a great hunter. There’s now a huge national forest named after him in India that’s a refuge for tigers and leopards due to him being a big conservationist and promoted only targeting man eaters.
 
Peter was Marks translator. Tatian tried to put the Bible in chronological order.
 
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