Livestock exerciser, though the speed looks all jacked up on it. Can probably be used for horses as well, but it's cattle that I've seen them used for.
So close! Almost made it.
(What _is_ that device anyway? What's the purpose of it?)
According to a seller, these ringfinger revolvers came from around 1870.
That's kinda Zen if you think about it - it makes no sense and perfect sense simultaneously.
Ike, Churchill and the Great Omar?
I didn't actually get that, but it seemed like it should be funny.
I'll see your Sar-e-Sang and raise you a Gobekli Tepe. OK, apples and oranges but I wanted to share.I've been buying mineral specimens from the Lapis Lazuli mines at Sar-e Sang, Afghanistan lately so I've been on a Sar-e Sang kick.. I've updated the world history chart below to put mining at Sar-e Sang into perspective. Sar-e Sang is the oldest continuously mined area on earth, having been mined for ~9,600 years.
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Mining at Sar-e Sang started 6200 years before the lapis from there was used in the funeral mask of King Tut.
Mining there predates domestication of the camel by ~4400 years.
Mining there predates the oldest Irish cairns by ~4100 years.
Mining at Sar-e Sang predates domestication of the horse by ~4000 years.
The oldest known mine on earth is a red ochre mine at Ngwenya, Swaziland at ~42,000 years old. While vastly older than Sar-e Sang, there is no evidence that it has been mined continuously throughout all of human history.
I know these are throwbacks . . . . reasons.
I didn't actually get that, but it seemed like it should be funny.
I'll see your Sar-e-Sang and raise you a Gobekli Tepe. OK, apples and oranges but I wanted to share.
I love lapis lazuli. That is all.
edit: I have an Egyptian scarab that was part of a ring, carved out of lapis. Probably Roman period or later. Cheesy lapis though. Lots of calcite.
I didn't actually get that, but it seemed like it should be funny.