Calm down, They've just forgotten that they were copying the colonial
powers. One could say that the 21 gun salute came from the
multiplication of the two mystical (very important to superstitious
sailors) prime numbers : 3 and 7...

Cheers

OzOneonOne wrote:

On 25 Jun 2004 08:19:10 -0700, (Joe)
scribbled thusly:


"Wolfie" wrote in message ...

Bart Senior wrote:

The 21-gun salute comes from summing of the digits in the
year 1776.

Salutes of 21 guns for national leaders predate 1776 and
the American Revolution...

Wrong, Bart is correct.

Joe


That's just absolute BULL**** !!
Where do you get this rubbish?
Do you actually believe eveything began in the good ole USA?


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

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