Hawaiian K. turned up this interesting web page: the use of animals other than horses for draught and riding. K.’s comment: “Riding elk? Wow!”
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Reader RBS mentioned that C. Crane Company has a variety of articles on shortwave antennas and other radio topics available for free download. BTW, I consider C. Crane a great potential advertiser for SurvivalBlog, so if you do any business with them, please mention that you heard about C. Crane on SurvivalBlog.
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In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, Front Sight feels they have the answer to stopping further attacks on colleges and on school children. Front Sight is offering free firearms training to any school administrator, teacher, or full time staff member designated as school Safety Monitors. They have also offered free lifetime memberships to all of the students enrolled in Rumanian-born Professor Liviu Librescu‘s engineering class. As a survivor of the Holocaust, I think that Professor Librescu would have approved. “Never again!”
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A hilarious lecture, from Google’s Authors Series: Daniel H. Wilson discusses his book “How to Survive a Robot Uprising”