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Re: The Brick Testament: The Full Extent of The Law
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lugnet.build.ancient
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Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:46:57 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
> In lugnet.build.ancient, Tobbe Arnesson wrote:
> > Wohoo!
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> Weeee!
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> > What not to eat
> > :4 I thought camels had two humps?
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> Some have one, others have two. My LEGO camels have one, because two would be
> very hard to fit on there and keep it in scale with minifigs.
The two-humped camel was found mostly in Iran and beyond which is why Greeks
called it Bactrian. The one-humped camel was domesticated, separately, in the
Arabian desert and had a much more widespread territory. Ancient artwork outside
Persian Iran (and a few other places) is mostly concerned with one-humped
camels.
The camel is really an interesting beast because it competed successfully with
the wheel for millenia--until gasoline.
See _The Camel and the Wheel_ by Richard W. Bulliet. The cover illustration
includes a hybrid, hump-and-a-half camel!
If you think two humps are tricky try building that!
-Erik
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| (...) Weeee! (...) Some have one, others have two. My LEGO camels have one, because two would be very hard to fit on there and keep it in scale with minifigs. (...) Clean? You'd prefer I use my old dirty LEGO? Just kidding. I assume you meant that (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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