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Article #216Re: Swastikas
From: Barney Lum
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:33
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:33
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apuri@us.oracle.com (Arvind Puri (Dr. Bombay)) writes:
> I'm kinda curious, how did an ancient Hindu religious symbol for prosperity
>get adopted by the Finnish AF and the WWII Lufwaffe ?
If the symbol you're typing about is the same as the one I'm thinking about,
it's "opposite" of a swastika. That is, the swastika seems to rotate (due
to the "thrusters") counter-clockwise while the Hindu one goes clockwise?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!usc!not-for-mail From: barney@sol.usc.edu (Barney Lum) Newsgroups: rec.models.scale,alt.models Subject: Re: Swastikas Date: 16 Oct 1992 16:33:59 -0700 Organization: USC University Computing Services, Los Angeles Lines: 18 Message-ID: <1bnjh7INNpvo@sol.usc.edu> References: <1992Oct15.223426.4173@daimi.aau.dk> <CRUSADER.92Oct16125011@eero.it.lut.fi> <1992Oct16.205220.23044@oracle.us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.usc.edu Summary: Direction of "rotation"