Can anyone help with a quiz,please ?

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Question 1.Was it true that the Japanese tried to bomb America during World War 11 using bombs attached to balloons which floated across the Pacific ?

Question 2.How long did it take the American population to get used to using toilet paper on a roll.25 years or 50 years?

Question 3.Is the American Declaration of Independance written on paper ?

Many thanks.

-- Chris (enquiries@griffenmill.com), July 05, 2001

Answers

1. Yes. One fell on a coastal forest in southern Oregon.

2. Pretty subjctive question. How would anyone know how long it takes "the public" to "get used to" something?

3. No. Real early drafts might have been on paper. The "official" document is on parchment.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), July 05, 2001.


3. hemp paper

-- that's (what@i.heard), July 05, 2001.

Found this on a web site:

"Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence, announced and released by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, was written on paper made from hemp. This document was later copied onto vellum parchment (animal skin) and signed by the delegates on August 2, 1776."

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), July 05, 2001.


Found this on another site:

"Taking advantage of the jet stream that circles the globe and crosses over both northern Japan and the northern United States, 9,000 balloons, each equipped with four incendiary and an anti-personnel bombs, were released to start forest fires and create terror in the western United States as far east as Michigan. Six people were killed in Oregon. The project was called Fugo (windship) and headed by Major General Sueki Kusaba. Considering the massive damage from natural fires in year 2000, this was a serious threat."

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), July 05, 2001.


What I find more bizarre than bomber balloons was the U.S. "strategy" to attach bombs to BATS.

-- 1 (2@3.com), July 05, 2001.


The bats deal was pretty goofy 1. Mexican freetail bats can carry 4 times their weight. That much of Japan's construction was of wood and ricepaper made the idea approachable. Attach a small incinderary, drop 'em at dawn and let the settle into the eves of buildings before the pretimed ignition. Fourtunately the B29 came along plus bet they'd have trouble finding volunteers to attach the devices.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), July 06, 2001.

Was it Sampson in the bible who tied foxes together by the tail with a lit torch dragging behind them and set them loose in the enemy's grain fields?

-- helen's Sunday school teacher will appalled if this is not in there (slept@through.church), July 06, 2001.

Re: #1

I think it was ripleys believe it or not (maybe "thats incredible")that did a show on the ballon bombs. there were actually several isolated incidents because of it, and once the military knew what was happening, they told the press to print NOTHING about it. Japan didn't hear one peep of fear from the US, so abandoned hte strategy. Besides the deaths in Oregon, there was a family hurt in montana I believe. Came across one of these bombs while picnicing after the war.

-- (one@who.was.there), July 06, 2001.


Many thanks !

-- Chris (enquiries@griffenmill.com), July 06, 2001.

Toilet paper comes in rolls; wow. I have to check this out the next time I get to Lewiston.

Boswell, you never told me this.

Survivor

-- Survivor (Survivor@Idaho.wow), July 06, 2001.



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