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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 7 Nov 1993.
Re: not nice symbol

Re: not nice symbol

In article <DAB...@goober.cs.umd.edu> dab...@cs.umd.edu (Dabe "Dabe" Murphy) writes:
 : In article <CG3...@news.iastate.edu> cro...@iastate.edu (Chrisrode) writes:
 : > In article <rch...@netcom.com> rch...@netcom.com (Robert Chao) writes:

 : > ... The way you have it drawn, I believe it's a
 : > peace symbol of some native group of people.

It's been many years since I saw this in an enclopadia, but I believe
the "native" people who use a swastika (in the opposite sense, both in
rotary direction and in philosophy) are the Hopi or Navajo Indians, in
the southwest US.
-- 
Steve Marzuola      Technology ... the knack of   Any resemblance between
(marzuola           so arranging the world that   these views and those of
@owlnet.rice.edu)   we don't have to experience   Rice University is strictly 
                    it. -- Max Frisch             coincidental.

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From: mar...@owlnet.rice.edu (Steven Joseph Marzuola)
Subject: Re: not nice symbol
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Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1993 22:27:54 GMT
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