In a message dated 5/29/99 12:57:18 AM Central Daylight Time, spike66@ibm.net writes:
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I'm not absolutely sure about this..but I think that Japan discovered gunpowder a loooooong time ago. They supressed it. The reasoning was that their culture was based on the Samurai....swordsmen. A swordsman is not much good against a gunman.
Later of course they ran up against a culture which had not suppressed gunpowder and were dogmeat. The moral of the story being survival of the fittest. Fittest being the biggest boys with the biggest toys...
EvMick
Salt Lake City, Utah.