wrote:

it should not suprise you that there is a lot of nationalistic b.s. in
the wright bros. story.

true flight is arbitrarily defined as the wrights' 1903 flight.
everything less is not true flight. anything better simply builds upon
the wrights' achievement.

historical studies are filled with such arbitrary divisions. farming
before egypt and sumer is arbitrarily called horticulture [gardening]
rather than true agriculture. thus egypt and sumer can be construed to
have invented agriculture and the context is lost.

it's called circular logic: the conclusion has been snuck into the
initial premise.

Here's that shipment of capital letters you've been waiting for - We're
back-ordered on the letters "L" and "Y," so I'll ship the rest of those
later.

AAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBCCCCCCCCCCCCDDDDDDDDDDDD
EEEEEEEEEEEEFFFFFFFFFFFFGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
IIIIIIIIIIIIJJJJJJJJJJJJKKKKKKKKKKKKLLL
MMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPP
QQQQQQQQQQQQRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTT
UUUUUUUUUUUUVVVVVVVVVVVVWWWWWWWWWWWWXXXXXXXXXXXX
YYYY ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Hope these work.

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