Re: TALK:Re: REQUEST: Swastika
From Strider Coyle <mic...@beaufort.sfu.ca>
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· 15 Apr 1994 21:46 · View full thread
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JBW...@CHEMICAL.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (JB Wood) writes: >In article <2ojef7$nl...@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> chk...@unity.ncsu.edu (CHRISTOPHER HOLLAND KING) writes: >>For our non-Spanish speaking posters, Jordi is telling Juan that he thinks >>(it appears to him)that the swastika is going the wrong way. >Yes, he is quite correct here...the way to remember this, is that the >swastika is formed by two S's...as in S.S. (I think this was the nazi police >or something - like S.S. Stormtroopers and such...) The swastika is an early cross - actually used by the Christians at times. It comes in both lef and right handed versions. I am not sure which one the Nazis used. The "SS" for the secret police was a double lightning bolt: /~/ /~/ / / / / / / / / / /__ / /__ /__ //__ / / / / / / / / / / / / / /_/ /_/ (NOTE this is my first attempt at ASCII art) -- Michael (Strider) Coyle mic...@sfu.ca Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada "Shape a vessel out of clay; It is the space inside which is useful." - Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,60081b16c6ce3862 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-04-16 05:21:07 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!panix!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!michaec From: mic...@beaufort.sfu.ca (Strider Coyle) Subject: Re: TALK:Re: REQUEST: Swastika Message-ID: <mic...@sfu.ca> Sender: new...@sfu.ca (seymour news) Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <JUA...@pragmatix.cs.uoregon.edu> <2oi...@diable.upc.es> <2ojef7$nl...@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <JBW...@CHEMICAL.watstar.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 21:46:36 GMT Lines: 35
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