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"he who controls the guano, controls the world!" - - Bert.
Guano. The “droppings”, euphemistically called that, of seals, sea birds, and bats.
[“droppings”=scheiss/merde’/skat]
Found in enormous deposits within caves and on oceanic islands the world-over.
Deposits that have accumulated, many METERS DEEP, layer-cake style, for MILLENNIUMS!!
[how many millenniums is a good question. These various deposits have accumulated, in some instances, for tens of millennium??]
A substance, guano that was mined on a vast industrial scale during the nineteenth century!
Highly prized as an organic fertilizer [phosphate], and as a source for nitrate and saltpeter, the two latter elements essential ingredients in the production of GUNPOWDER!!
A substance so highly prized that WARS HAVE BEEN FOUGHT - - FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING DOMINION AND CONTROL OVER DEPOSITS OF GUANO!!
[those islands directly off the Pacific coast of South America are PARTICULARLY NOTED FOR THEIR RICH DEPOSITS OF GUANO!! AT THE TIME CONSIDERED TO BE EXTREMELY VALUABLE!!]
And, for the world powers of the era [nineteenth century], a mad-scramble-dash to discover and again, ESTABLISH DOMINION AND CONTROL OVER DEPOSITS OF GUANO, WHEN FOUND!!
[primarily here, oceanic islands!]
It was imperative for those world powers [Britain/France/United States], to have at their ready disposal, an abundant source of nitrates and saltpeter! Needed for the manufacture, on an industrial scale, of gunpowder.
Guano, AN ACCESS TO, was an ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL AND CRUCIAL ELEMENT OF WAR-MAKING CAPABILITY EVEN UP UNTIL THE TIME OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR!!
Read this interesting article, titled, “Does Guano Drive History?"
I may be wrong about this, but until the advent of modern war munitions propellants such as cordite, a nation NOT having access to guano was severely limited in it’s war-making potential?!
coolbert.
"he who controls the guano, controls the world!" - - Bert.
Guano. The “droppings”, euphemistically called that, of seals, sea birds, and bats.
[“droppings”=scheiss/merde’/skat]
Found in enormous deposits within caves and on oceanic islands the world-over.
Deposits that have accumulated, many METERS DEEP, layer-cake style, for MILLENNIUMS!!
[how many millenniums is a good question. These various deposits have accumulated, in some instances, for tens of millennium??]
A substance, guano that was mined on a vast industrial scale during the nineteenth century!
Highly prized as an organic fertilizer [phosphate], and as a source for nitrate and saltpeter, the two latter elements essential ingredients in the production of GUNPOWDER!!
A substance so highly prized that WARS HAVE BEEN FOUGHT - - FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING DOMINION AND CONTROL OVER DEPOSITS OF GUANO!!
[those islands directly off the Pacific coast of South America are PARTICULARLY NOTED FOR THEIR RICH DEPOSITS OF GUANO!! AT THE TIME CONSIDERED TO BE EXTREMELY VALUABLE!!]
And, for the world powers of the era [nineteenth century], a mad-scramble-dash to discover and again, ESTABLISH DOMINION AND CONTROL OVER DEPOSITS OF GUANO, WHEN FOUND!!
[primarily here, oceanic islands!]
It was imperative for those world powers [Britain/France/United States], to have at their ready disposal, an abundant source of nitrates and saltpeter! Needed for the manufacture, on an industrial scale, of gunpowder.
Guano, AN ACCESS TO, was an ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL AND CRUCIAL ELEMENT OF WAR-MAKING CAPABILITY EVEN UP UNTIL THE TIME OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR!!
Read this interesting article, titled, “Does Guano Drive History?"
I may be wrong about this, but until the advent of modern war munitions propellants such as cordite, a nation NOT having access to guano was severely limited in it’s war-making potential?!
coolbert.
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