Word: vulcanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about cutting edges long before Richard the Lionhearted matched blades with wily Saladin. Roman soldiers who had served in the East brought many of the steelmaking secrets of Damascus into the Rhineland, and in the 6th Century Theodoric the Ostrogoth pronounced Solingen's swords worthy of Vulcan's own forge. Charlemagne armed his warriors at Solingen's smithies. During the Crusades they produced the finest blades in Christendom. In the 16th Century the smiths of Solingen engraved the proud label, "Solingen made me," on their blades, as a guarantee of unmatched keenness...
Venus' husband, Vulcan, was a good guy and the god of fire besides, but he was so jealous he couldn't stand to have her out of his sight; his idea of fun for his lovely bride was to have her hang around his forge while he pounded out odd jobs. Anyone but a god would have known that a Venus was bound...
...when her sexy brother-in-law Mars talked about its "animal implications." At the same time, she got a great kick out of spying on Achilles and Polyxena as they made love in a grove outside the walls of Troy. It was also true that looking at her musclebound Vulcan after he bathed made her forget supper and the problems of the world...
...interrupt with, "Would you mind, all of you, finishing your soup before it's cold?" or "Don't forget that the domestics have their rights. They wish to remove the dishes. . ." When Venus dropped down to earth with Mars, the whole godly clan gave her dirty looks. Vulcan ran to father Jupiter like a spoiled brat crying, "I want Mars to keep his hands off her! If he doesn't, I'll break his neck!" Actually, Vulcan had nothing to fear from Mars. The god of war was better looking, but Vulcan had all his hair...
...Santa Anita, where the $136,600 Hollywood Gold Cup ("world's richest race") was run, it was a sweltering 96° as the field of eleven jogged to the post. Vulcan's Forge, the co-favorite, had taken a beating during a violent storm on his plane trip from the East; he had been thrown to the floor, and had banged his hock and thigh. When the race began, he got lost in the shuffle and was not heard from again...