Greg:
Doesn't the machine gun go back to the 1860s and the American Civil
War in the form of the Gatling Gun? Or do you mean sub-machine guns,
like the 'Tommy'?
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Tim McShane
Curatorial Assistant, Parks Canada
(also, Co-Chair of the Museum Division, Arrow 2000 Project)
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Subject: Re: Your TOP EVENT / DECISION that shaped the 20th Century
Author: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> (Greg Koos
<[log in to unmask]>) at PCH
Date: 1/30/99 9:34 PM
The machine gun and anti-biotics - The power to take life and the power to
give life.
Both were associated with world wars.
Greg Koos