By Harry Turtledove
January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. the military of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has damaged the again of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.
Then, Andries Rhoodie, an odd guy with an unplaceable accessory, ways Lee with a unprecedented supply. Rhoodie demonstrates an awesome rifle: Its fee of fireside is wonderful, its deadly potency breathtaking--and Rhoodie promises limitless quantitites to the Confederates.
The identify of the weapon is the AK-47....
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Kings, by virtue of their many counsellors and the special trappings and rituals of kingship, were expected to be wise and sagacious. Many ancient Near Eastern collections of proverbial sayings purport to be the teachings of a king or other notable to his son or successor. The biblical Proverbs are the 'wisdom of King Solomon' addressed to his son, and the wise author of the book of Ecclesiastes introduces himself as 'the son of Da vid, king over Israel in Jerusalem'. Several such compositions survive from ancient Egypt, the best known perhaps being the 'Instructions of Amen-em-Opet'.
In comparison with those who had dug there before him, Smith brought home only a very small number of tablets - the 'DT' collection - from this, his first expedition, but there among them was indeed a fragment of the Flood, one that even filled an important gap in the narrative. This was a most impressive fulfilment of the Daily Telegraph's expectations, but the expedition was a victim of its own success. The desired fragment so exactly met the newspaper's requirements that the news of its discovery led to the expedition's early recall.
Small wonder, then, that mankind could be wayward. Uta-napishti tells his wife in Tablet XI, 'Man is deceitful, he will deceive you', and Gilgamesh duly confirms this unpalatable aspect of human nature by lying to him. The innately rebellious and unruly nature of man encapsulated in this myth of his creation also informs one tradition about early human history, first found in several Sumerian literary compositions, that in the beginning the human race roamed the land like the beasts of the field, naked but hairy, and for sustenance grazing on grass.