Word: crossbows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Banned Crossbow...
TIME [Dec. 18] was wrong in its reference to the Denver Post editorial on the atom bomb. The Post did not say "Pope Innocent III had banned the crossbow in the 16th Century," as TIME erroneously paraphrased it. Unlike TIME researchers, Post editors know that Innocent III died in 1216. Post editorial said: "In the time of the Crusades, Pope Innocent III banned the crossbow as an inhumane weapon for Christians to be killing other Christians with. In the 16th Century the French complained that the British used the inhumane weapon known as gunpowder...